UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi: progress slowed by lack of ambition. Out of nineteen draft resolutions submitted for negotiations, fifteen were adopted.
They focus on ocean protection, waste management and land restoration. Four draft resolutions were ultimately not approved: notably those concerning solar geoengineering and the circular economy. Some especially regret that the call for a transition away from fossil fuels, approved at COP28, was not renewed in the ministerial declaration of this sixth UN assembly for the environment. Among the countries present was Somalia, whose government established its first Ministry of Environment and Climate Change two years ago.