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Kenyan Environment Minister leaves for Kenya to attend the UNEA-5 Resumption Session
Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 10:24 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Feb 28, Colombo: Mahinda Amaraweera, Minister of Environment, has left the island in order to attend the reprised session of United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi Kenya.
The UN Environment Program hosts the Fifth Session United Nations Environment Assembly. It will discuss any remaining substantive issues related to the agenda as well as a Ministerial Declaration on the theme of the Assembly, Strengthening Activities for Nature to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals.
The first session of UNEA-5, UNEA-5.1, was held online 22-23 February 2021. The UNEA-5 5.2 session will take place in person in Nairobi on February 28th and February 2nd 2022.
Immediately following UNEA-5.2 the Assembly will hold a Special Sessions of the Assembly on the 3rd and the 4th March 2022. This session will be dedicated to the 50th anniversary celebrations of the creation UN Environment Programme in 1972.
