The present report presents the outcome of the informal open-ended consultations held by the President of the United Nations Environment Assembly with Member States. The aim of the consultations was to formulate new proposals on the following outstanding elements of a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) policy on stakeholder engagement: (a) Definition of stakeholder; (b) Accreditation process and criteria; (c) Access to pre-session and in-session documents; (d) Meetings of accredited major groups and stakeholders with the Bureau of the United Nations Environment Assembly.

The United Nations Environment Assembly encourages countries to continue their efforts to strengthen international dialogue and cooperation, technical assistance and capacity-building in support of the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, taking into account relevant advances, instruments, experiences and practices since its adoption, and to work for the strengthening of environmental rule of law at the international, regional and national levels;

The United Nations Environment Assembly notes that, in line with the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, agreements for which the United Nations Environment Programme carries out the functions of the secretariat must be based on the principle of cost recovery when it comes to administrative costs.

Through Resolution 2/21, the United Nations Environment Assembly, among other things, requests the Executive Director to, within the programme of work and available resources, support Member States, in collaboration with relevant United Nations entities and other partners, in addressing the challenges of sand and dust storms through the identification of relevant data and information gaps, policy measures and actions, building on the “Global assessment of sand and dust storms” under General Assembly resolution 70/195 of 22 December 2015, and in connection with the ongoing efforts on air quality monitoring and assessment in response to United Nations Environment Assembly resolution 1/7.