The Ambassador of the Republic of Angola to Kenya Sianga Abílio participated, on 26 January 2021, in Nairobi in the 153rd Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment Program - UNEP, an event called to address the preparations for the 5th World Environment Assembly - UNEA 5 scheduled for February 22 and 23, 2021.
At the meeting which took place through a videoconference from the UN Offices in Nairobi, the decision of the Permanent Representatives and the Executive Directorate of UNEP was reiterated to “divide” the 5th World Environment Assembly into two segments, one virtual, in February 2021, given the constraints imposed by Covid-19, and the other, in person, in February 2022.
In the first segment the agenda of the 5th World Environment Assembly will focus on the functional issues of the United Nations Environment Program namely its Medium Term Strategy 2022-2025 and its Work Plan and Budget for the biennium 2022-2023.
In the second segment in February 2022, the 5th World Environment Assembly - UNEA 5 will have a face-to-face format to allow substantial issues to be discussed in a negotiation perspective between the interested parties with a view to consensually defining strategies, fundamentally political, turned to the future actions of the United Nations Environment Program.
At the meeting co-chaired by the Ambassadors Fernando Coimbra Chairman of the Permanent Representatives Committee and Inger Andersen Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNEP the approximately three hundred participants were informed of the work in progress for the launch, in February 2021, during the first segment of the 5th World Environment Assembly, in Nairobi, of the Commemorative Day of the 50 years of UNEP whose program of festivities should extend to the year 2022 the height of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations Program for the Environment.
Throughout 2021 UNEP should hold a series of events under the aegis of its 50th Anniversary among them stands out the World Wildlife Day; the International Day for Biological Diversity; the 5th Session of the International Chemicals Management Conference; the High Level Forum on Sustainable Development and the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change.
The Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi with emphasis on the African Group stressed the importance of the next major international events on the environment to take place in Nairobi, considered the world capital of the Environment for hosting the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Program - UNEP.
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