Ministerial declaration for the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly -Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

This document presents a 8 October 2021 draft ministerial text for the fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly, outlining proposed preambular elements and commitments to “strengthen actions for nature” toward the Sustainable Development Goals. It recognizes COVID-19’s impacts, accelerating biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution, and notes the unmet 2020 chemicals and waste target. It emphasizes a green and just recovery; cross-sector cooperation; effective protected-area governance; combating illegal deforestation, wildlife trade, and harmful mining; and partnering with youth, Indigenous peoples, the private sector, and civil society. Priorities include sustainable consumption and production, circular-economy policies, nature-based solutions and ecosystem restoration, food-system transformation, integrated land-use planning, and ocean protection aligned with the Paris Agreement.