Cuba attends UN Environment Assembly

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 1 (ACN) A delegation from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym) is participating at the 6th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), which brings together in Nairobi, Kenya, more than 5,000 representatives of governments, civil society and the private sector.

The group is headed by Jose Fidel Santana Nuñez, first deputy minister of that body, and participates in the analysis of the draft resolutions and in the High Level Dialogues, in defense of the positions of the developing countries.

Information from CITMA indicates that he is also working on behalf of the Small Island Developing States in their demand for urgent action to address the enormous environmental challenges caused by climate change.

The program of the event indicates that Santana Nuñez will intervene in the high-level segment of the meeting and his delegation will undertake a broad agenda, which will include meetings with environmental authorities of the Member States, the United Nations System and other entities.

UNEA-6, scheduled to run until today, Friday, has as its main theme Effective, Inclusive and Sustainable Multilateral Actions to Address Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Pollution, according to the source. .

Leila Benali, its president, said at the opening ceremony that "the world needs more environmental multilateralism in the face of wars or electoral processes that distract governments from devoting more resources to solving the ecological crises that threaten the planet".

For her part, Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), warned that it is essential to unite the whole world in supporting measures in favor of the environment, since "no one on this planet is immune to the effects of the triple planetary crisis".

The assembly focuses on the search for solutions based on nature and highly dangerous pesticides, land degradation, drought and environmental, mineral and metal issues.
Member States and stakeholders are analyzing how to promote the Decade of Action, especially in the reciprocal connections related to such problems.