The fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme will be held in Nairobi from Monday, 11 March to Friday, 15 March 2019 under the theme “Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production”.

The objective of the two-day consultations is for the African Major Groups and Stakeholders to prepare their inputs for the seventh special session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) and the fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly. The outcome of the meeting will be a regional statement by civil society which will constitute the information document to the UN Environment Assembly.

With environment integrated into all aspects of development, this document focuses on how innovative environmental solutions could provide affordable practical solutions to drive the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063 in Africa.

The report concerns the third among the series of regional consultations for national focal points from West Asia took place from 9 to 10 July 2018 in Amman, Jordan. The objectives of the meeting were to provide a forum for Montevideo Focal Points from West Asia to:
(a) Share and exchange information on latest developments, trends, and good practices in the development and enforcement of environmental law in their countries, as well as regionally and globally; (b) Contribute to UN Environment’s preparation of the assessment of the Montevideo Programme IV, including through sharing information on the status of implementation of the Montevideo Programme IV in their countries; and (c) identify priorities from the region and proposals for the work of UN Environment in environmental law for the Fifth Montevideo Programme ten-year period commencing from 2020.