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UN Biodiversity Conference Part I
Delegates have the task to set the path for a sustainable future by systemizing actions to ensure a transformative change that rebuilds our relationship with nature, and keep momentum alive for adopting an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework when the Conference resumes in 2022.
Inaugural Regional Session of the UNEP Science-Policy-Business Forum for Asia and the Pacific (AP-SPBF 2021)
Sessions focused on key learning on how the Asia-Pacific region can bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic alongside the impacts of climate-related disasters.
35th UN-Water Meeting
With the UN 2023 Water Conference on the horizon, UN-Water Members, Partners, and observers focused on conference preparations and opportunities, with the objective of ensuring it will be a “watershed moment.”
UN World Data Forum 2021
Hosted by the Federal Statistics Office of Switzerland, the UN World Data Forum 2021 fostered discussions on ways to build a pathway for better data for sustainable development and options to promote data innovation, capacity building, and support.
4th Session of the Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific
The Forum sought seeking to contribute regional perspectives on the pandemic recovery needed and put forward policy priorities for the upcoming resumed session of the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly.
9th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention
The meeting successfully highlighted the importance of transboundary water cooperation, welcomed Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, and Togo as new Parties, and saw the signing of the Ministerial Declaration on the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin by ministers from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal.
Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW) Wildlife Forum 2021
With the pandemic putting wildlife management under close scrutiny, key messages emerged on land use, food security, zoonotic disease, trade, and human-wildlife conflict.
High-level Dialogue on Energy
The first high-level meeting to tackle energy issues under the United Nations General Assembly in 40 years demonstrated broad interest in accelerating ambition towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) on affordable and clean energy and the net-zero emissions by 2050 goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Energy Action Days
Immediately prior to the High-level Dialogue on Energy (HLDE), Energy Action Days brought together representatives of business, foundations, cities, youth and other segments of civil society to announce “Energy Compact” commitments.