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STORY: UNEP / UNEA7 OPENING
TRT: 04:51
SOURCE: UNEP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 8 DECEMBER 2025, NAIROBI, KENYA
1.Various shots, UN Office at Nairobi, campus grounds. UNEA7 facilities
2. SOUNBITE (Arabic) Abdullah Bin Ali Al-Amri, President of UNEA7, President of the Environment Authority of Oman:
“We are meeting here at a very important juncture. All communities across the world are facing the impact climate change and pollution. These challenges are not only threatening our communities across the world but undermine our collective efforts.”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme:
“We are all interconnected on this planet. And we all want the same thing: A better future for ourselves and for our families. The foundation stones of such a future are a stable climate, a safe and clean, sustainable environment and a pollution-free future.”
4. Various shots, delegates gathering ahead of the opening plenery at UNEA7
5. Wide shot, choir performance
6. Various shots, opening plenary session
7. Various shots, opening discussion at Opening Plenary of Committee of the Whole.
8. Various shots, methane side event at UNEA7
Saving the world’s glaciers. Reining in massive seaweed blooms. Reducing the environmental impact of artificial intelligence. These are just a few of the issues that are expected to be front and centre this week as representatives from more than 170 countries gather in Nairobi, Kenya, for the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7).
The assembly is the world’s top decision-making body on the environment and this year’s session comes at what experts call a critical time for the Earth. The three planetary environmental crises of climate change, nature, land and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste are pushing natural systems to their breaking point, with potentially dire consequences for humanity.
UNEA-7 runs from 8-12 December. It will focus on how countries can, in the words of UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director, Inger Andersen, find “real solutions to real-world problems.
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