Find answers to commonly asked questions about the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7).

The seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) will be held from 8 December to 12 December 2025 at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya (decision 6/7).

The United Nations Environment Assembly is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment. It addresses the critical environmental challenges facing the world today.  

The Assembly has a universal membership of all 193 Member States. Through its resolutions and calls to action, the Assembly provides leadership and catalyzes intergovernmental action on the environment. 

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 UNEP, and fosters partnerships for achieving environmental goals and resource mobilization. 

OECPR-7 stands for the seventh Open-Ended Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives. It served as a preparatory meeting of the UNEA agenda and pre-negotiated and deliberated the content and wording of proposed resolutions, declarations and decisions for endorsement and approval by the Assembly. 

In accordance with paragraph 10 of Governing Council decision 27/2 of 23 February 2013 and decision 6/7 of 1 March 2024, the seventh meeting of the Open-ended Committee of Permanent Representatives will take place from 1 to 5 December  2025, back-to-back with UNEA-7.

All participants to the seventh meeting of the OECPR (OECPR-7) and the seventh session of UNEA (UNEA-7) will need to register online in order to attend. 

Registration will only be open for:

  • 193 States Members of the United Nations
  • members of specialized agencies which are not members of the UN Environment Assembly [Cook Islands, Holy See, Niue, State of Palestine]
  • accredited intergovernmental organizations and multilateral environmental agreements as well as regional economic integration organization [European Union]
  • specialized agencies and related organizations and the United Nations bodies and entities
  • Accredited international non-governmental organizations

If you don't fall under any of the categories mentioned above, you will not be able to register to attend unless you are an invited guest of a delegation.