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Why Nairobi deserves to be made the world's environmental capital

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President William Ruto opens the UNEA-6 summit in Gigiri, Nairobi County. [PCS]

The 6th Session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) ended on March 1, 2024 recalling the previous arrangements to restore biodiversity such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted by the United Nations (UN) Biodiversity Conference Montreal, Canada, 7-19 December 2022 during the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

This framework sought to accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and build on the Convention's previous strategic plans, setting out an ambitious pathway to reach the global vision of a world living in harmony with nature by 2050.

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