Restart 2021: Rising to the challenges of the environmental agenda
Photo by Jan Kronies / Unsplash / 26 Jan 2021
Statement prepared for delivery at the 153
rd meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives
Ambassador Coimbra,
Excellencies, colleagues
I am honoured on behalf of UNEP, to address you at the first meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives in 2021. It is indeed not the start to the year we had hoped for and we still have some way to journey as we seek to end the pandemic. As we scroll our newsfeeds, it has also become increasingly evident that environmental crises are part and parcel of the journey ahead. Wildfires, hurricanes, temperature records, plagues of locusts, floods and droughts, were so commonplace they do not even always make the news.