Canada’s comments Zero draft, May 2023 Ministerial declaration for the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly “Effective, inclusive, and sustainable multilateral actions to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution”

This document presents Canada’s proposed edits and rationales on the zero draft ministerial declaration for the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. It reviews specific operative paragraphs and suggests revised wording on references to Indigenous Peoples, health and wellbeing, multilateral environmental agreements, loss and damage, short-lived climate pollutants and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.