Luanda - Angola is participating since Monday in Nairobi, Kenya, in the 6th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), which is taking place under the slogan "Effective, Inclusive and Sustainable Multilateral Actions to Combat Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Pollution".
The Minister for the Environment, Ana Paula Carvalho, heads the Angolan delegation, which also includes the Angolan Ambassador to Kenya and Permanent Representative to the UN Offices in Nairobi, Sianga Abílio, and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the National Waste Agency, Nelma Caetano.
The United Nations Environment Assembly was convened to debate current environmental issues, based on the triple planetary crisis reflected in the event's motto.
Hence the multiplicity of topics to be addressed by the heads of state and government, expected on the 29th, and 75 ministers and other delegates from the 193 UN member states and partner organisations, already present at this working session.
Over the next five days, delegates are expected to analyse, for possible adoption, a set of 19 draft resolutions on topics such as "Highly Hazardous Pesticides", "Combating Sand and Dust Storms", "Efforts to Improve the Transition of the Local, Regional and Global Circular Economy", among others.
Delegates are also expected to evaluate two proposals for Draft Decisions focusing on the organisation and internal functioning of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with emphasis on budgetary, administrative and work programme issues, as well as a draft Ministerial Declaration containing the position of Member States on the main environmental issues of the globe.
On the sidelines of the UNEA-6 working sessions, the Angolan delegation is scheduled to take part in a meeting of the Conference of African Ministers of the Environment (AMCEN), contacts with various delegations and fact-finding visits to environmental projects in the Republic of Kenya, as part of the strengthening of bilateral cooperation. ART/DAN/DOJ
