Your Excellency Leila Benali, President of UNEA-6 and Minister of Strength Transition and Sustainable Advancement of Morocco,
Your Excellency Soipan Tuya, Cabinet Secretary for Atmosphere, Local weather Transform and Forestry of Kenya,
Your Excellency Firas Khouri, Chair of the Committee of Long term Associates,
Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Director-Normal of UNON,
Elizabeth Mrema, Deputy Director of UNEP,
Ministers, delegates, distinguished friends and buddies.
Welcome to the Sixth United Nations Setting Assembly, using put listed here in Nairobi, the environmental funds of the planet, as we like to say. My many thanks go, as at any time, to the federal government of Kenya for decades of commitment to UNEP and worldwide environmental governance. My many thanks also to you, Minister Benali, for your excellent leadership about the previous two several years.
This assembly knows all far too well that we are dwelling by way of an intensifying triple planetary disaster: the crisis of local climate change, the disaster of character and land reduction, and the crisis of pollution and squander. This disaster casts its shadow over every single man or woman on this earth, irrespective of nationality, colour, faith or gender.
This forum, which we like to feel is the world’s most-influential decision-making entire body on the setting, has regularly revealed the unity we need to have to prevail over this disaster. We will need that unity to safeguard Earth as we know it. And this calendar year, the assembly is much more powerful and a lot more united than ever. I normally say at these assemblies that the planet is looking at. In reality, this yr, the environment is not just watching. The world is right here. We have a report selection of delegates, a document quantity of nations around the world represented, and a file variety of ministers. Thank you for coming.
We have the voices of the young generation – who, at the Youth Surroundings Assembly, issued a declaration asking for intergenerational fairness and solid backing for environmental multilateralism. We have the voices of civil modern society, Indigenous Folks, women, firms and many a lot more feeding in by means of the Big Groups and Stakeholders Discussion board. And we have the Multilateral Environmental Agreements listed here in Nairobi to reimagine how to function alongside one another for greater effects and accelerated action.
So, as you, the Member States, negotiate, I inquire you to deal with squarely and tackle environmental crises and issues. Troubles that are new. That are urgent. That are however on the horizon, way out in the ocean, but which will soon crash on our environmental shores if we do not act. This is the impactful, nimble and foresightful environmentalism that we look for.
Excellencies, colleagues and mates,
By means of the tireless perform of the Open-Ended Committee of the Lasting Representatives, 19 resolutions and two decisions are on the desk. This would have not been possible devoid of the dedication of the Chair and Bureau of the Committee, and the co-facilitators of resolution clusters debated throughout final week’s Open-Finished Committee. My deep many thanks to all.