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UNITED NATION ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY (UNEA II)

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Report by: Tracy Kimathi The United Nations held the second UNEA conference that took place on the 23- 27th of May at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme was “Delivering on the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Unlike UNEA-1, thee agenda included youth within the delegations, students from different universities as well as youth initiatives were invited to interact with over 1,000senior policy makers representing the world's highest level decision making bodies on the environment. The conference targeted the following agendas; Reflection on the latest global, regional and national development related to the environment Innovative technologies and ideas for a more efficient strategy between South-South cooperation (S.S.C) Ideas for how to encourage international and regional collaboration to enable implementation of policies Understanding the link between S.S.C and  agenda 2030 The assembly entailed Sustai

UNITED NATION ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY (UNEA II)

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Report by: Tracy Kimathi The United Nations held the second UNEA conference that took place on the 23- 27th of May at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme was “Delivering on the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Unlike UNEA-1, thee agenda included youth within the delegations, students from different universities as well as youth initiatives were invited to interact with over 1,000senior policy makers representing the world's highest level decision making bodies on the environment. The conference targeted the following agendas; Reflection on the latest global, regional and national development related to the environment Innovative technologies and ideas for a more efficient strategy between South-South cooperation (S.S.C) Ideas for how to encourage international and regional collaboration to enable implementation of policies Understanding the link between S.S.C and  agenda 2030 The assembly entailed Sustai