Event

Women’s Environment Assembly

Name: Women’s Environment Assembly
Start: 2025-11-30 12:00:00
End: 2025-11-30 18:00:00

The Women’s Major Group (WMG) was founded after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit as one of the nine formal constituencies, to ensure women’s perspectives and rights were integrated into global environmental decision-making. The upcoming first Women’s Environment Assembly in this region will consolidate and amplify women’s priorities, strengthen leadership capacities, and ensure women’s voices globally inform UNEA-7 and beyond.

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30 November 2025 at 12:00 EAT

ending at 18:00 EAT

Nairobi, Kenya and Online

World Agroforestry Centre

Event contact

Andreea Raluca Torre / andreea.torre@sei.org

Green graphic for the Women’s Environment Assembly, featuring illustrated floral elements and a collage of diverse women. Text reads: ‘Women’s Environment Assembly – 30th November | Nairobi, Kenya.’ Logos of partner organizations appear at the bottom. — Graphic: Women’s Major Group.

Environmental degradation poses a crisis that severely impacts women and marginalized groups, yet they are crucial for community-based solutions. Recognizing this, the 1992 Rio Earth Summit established nine Major Groups, including the Women’s Major Group (WMG), to formally influence international environmental policy.

Since then, the WMG has been vital in shaping major global frameworks, from the Rio Conventions to the 2030 Agenda and successive UNEA sessions, successfully keeping gender equality central to environmental commitments.

The planned Women’s Environment Assembly (WEA) builds on this legacy and previous regional successes (like the one in Lima, Peru). Its core objective is to consolidate women’s priorities, strengthen their leadership, and ensure their collective voices globally influence the policy outcomes of the upcoming UNEA-7 and future governance processes.

Objectives

To discuss critical issues such as chemicals and waste; artificial intelligence and antimicrobial resistance from a gender perspective, highlighting their differentiated impacts on women.
To finalize Women’s Major Group collective position and priorities ahead of UNEA-7.
To develop and strengthen strategies for effective advocacy and lobbying of Member States to ensure women’s interests are reflected in UNEA7 negotiations and outcomes.