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• Weeklong UNEA-6 talks in Nairobi will focus on negotiating resolutions on critical issues such as nature-based solutions, highly hazardous pesticides, land degradation, drought, and the environmental aspects of minerals and metals.
• UNEA-6 talks will see countries consider a total of 19 resolutions aimed at spurring more ambitious multilateral environmental action.
• The UN Environment Assembly plays a crucial role in setting priorities for global environmental policies and developing international environmental law.

Ministers of environment and leaders from over 180 nations gathering in Nairobi for the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) are calling on the urgent need for environmental multilateralism to tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss, and pollution.

This year’s assembly, taking place between February 25 and March 1st, will focus on negotiating resolutions on critical issues such as nature-based solutions, highly hazardous pesticides, land degradation, drought, and the environmental aspects of minerals …