Draft Report of Options for Clearly Defined Priority Areas to Strengthen, Develop, or Implement Appropriate Legal and Institutional Frameworks at the National or Sub-national level to Implement Biodiversity related Goals and Commitments: Legal Responses to Combat the Biodiversity Crisis - Leveraging the Montevideo Programme

The Fifth Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law (Montevideo Programme V) was adopted by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) Resolution 4/20, to identify priority actions and develop and implement environmental law from 2020 to 2029. Montevideo Programme V has designated national focal points from most countries, and it holds Global Intergovernmental Meetings for National Focal Points to identify priority actions in environmental law and to review implementation of the program. A Steering Committee for Implementation of Montevideo Programme V is also constituted with representatives from all regions to guide the process of identification and implementation of priority actions in the field of environmental law to be undertaken by UNEP, in collaboration with other relevant partners, for the decade.