UN Environment Assembly 4 (UNEA 4) Resolutions

Under the overall theme, ‘Innovative Solutions for Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Consumption and Production,’ the 4th session of the UN Environment Assembly of the UN Environment Programme was held from 11 - 15 March 2019, at the United Nations Environment Programme Headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya. UNEA 4 adjourned with 23 adopted resolutions.

A comprehensive list of all the outcomes of UNEA.4 (Resolutions, Decisions and Ministerial Declaration) is available on the UNEA-4 website.

Resolution 1: Innovative Pathways to Achieve Sustainable Consumption and Production

Resolution 2: Promoting sustainable practices and innovative solutions for curbing food loss and waste

Resolution 3: Sustainable Mobility

Resolution 4: Addressing environmental challenges through sustainable business practices

Resolution 5: Sustainable Infrastructure

Resolution 6: Marine Plastic Litter and Microplastics

Resolution 7: Environmentally Sound Management of Waste

Resolution 8: Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste

Resolution 9: Addressing Single-use Plastic Products Pollution

Resolution 10: Innovations on biodiversity and land degradation

Resolution 11: Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities

Resolution 12: Sustainable Management for Global Health of Mangrove

Resolution 13: Sustainable coral reefs management

Resolution 14: Sustainable Nitrogen Management

Resolution 15: Innovations in Sustainable Rangelands and Pastoralism

Resolution 16: Conservation and Sustainable Management of Peatlands

Resolution 17: Promote gender equality, and the human rights and empowerment of women and girls in environmental governance

Resolution 18: Poverty Environment Nexus

Resolution 19: Mineral resource governance

Resolution 20: Fifth Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law (Montevideo V) "Delivering for People and the Planet"

Resolution 21:Implementation Plan “Towards a Pollution-free Planet”

Resolution 22: Implementation and follow up of UNEA resolutions and related activities  

Resolution 23: Keeping the World Environment under Review: Enhancing United Nations Environment Programme’s Science-Policy Interface and Endorsement of the Global Environment Outlook