About the United Nations Environmental Assembly
The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is the world’s highest-level decision-making body for matters related to the environment, with a universal membership of all 193 Member States.
It sets the global environmental agenda, provides overarching policy guidance, and defines policy responses to address emerging environmental challenges. It undertakes policy review, dialogue and the exchange of experiences, sets the strategic guidance on the future direction of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and fosters partnerships for achieving environmental goals and resource mobilization.
The seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) will take place from 8 to 12 December 2025 at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
About the session
- Wednesday December 10
- 18:15 – 19:45 EAT
- Mt Kenya Room, UN Campus in Nairobi or via video stream
This event will outline a path for mainstreaming environmental sustainability across all workstreams of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) implementation. It will discuss the critical intersection of environmental sustainability and economic growth, guiding the environmentally sound development and use of digital technologies and AI. With a mixture of Member States from all regions, this event’s panel will focus on leaving no one behind in the implementation of the Principle (e) by addressing the digital divide and specifically the growing AI divide – where countries without strong digital infrastructure, data systems, or regulatory capacity risk being excluded from the benefits of technology.
The event also contributes to UNEA Resolution 4/23 by discussing strategies to keep the world environment under review using data and digital technologies. Target audiences include Member States, civil society, and the technical community.
How to attend
- Know more about the session
- If you are not in person, you can follow through the video stream.
