London, 20th February 2024
Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) has announced Co-Founder Lorraine Platt will be speaking at a panel event at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) later this month, the world’s top decision-making body on the environment.
The assembly, from 26 February to 1 March 2024, will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, and discuss how multilateralism can help tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Lorraine Platt will be speaking on a panel titled ‘The role of civil society in multilateral actions in addressing the triple planetary crisis’ on 27th February.
Lorraine Platt will explore the triple planetary crisis and highlight that the interconnected challenges compound each other, posing severe threats to global ecosystems and human civilization. Civil society organisations, with their broad expertise and grassroots connections, will be depicted as crucial actors in narrowing the gap between high-level policy dialogues and actionable ground solutions. The speech will emphasize the necessity for a united effort to tackle the root causes of environmental degradation, with a particular focus on the negative impacts of industrial agricultural practices and intensive animal farming.
UNEA-6 will bring together 193 Member States, intergovernmental organisations, civil society groups, the scientific community, and the private sector to shape global environmental policy. This year more than 70 ministers and 3,000 delegates are expected to attend.
You can read more about UNEA-6 and how to join here. You can read CAWF’s latest reports here.
About UNEA
UNEA is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment and includes all 193 Member States of the UN. It meets every two years to set the global environmental agenda, provide overarching policy guidance and define policy responses to address emerging environmental challenges. Since its creation in 2012, UNEA has embodied a new era of multilateralism in which the environment is given the same level of prominence as other critical issues, like peace, poverty and health.
UNEA sessions serve as both a forum and a decision-making body. The world’s governments, the scientific community and the private sector, discuss the most pressing global environmental issues. Then, through its resolutions, decisions and calls to action, the Assembly addresses those challenges.
About Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF)
The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation was established in 2016 to raise awareness on the lives of billions of animals reared on intensive farms around the world and how this impact upon animal welfare, the environment and people’s health. We want to highlight the action people can take to help advance farm animal welfare.
Animal welfare is an increasing concern amongst the public, who frequently look to Government to take the lead in both maintaining and improving standards.
The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation believes it is highly important that the welfare of farm animals is placed at the forefront of the Governments plan for food and farming along with its focus on productivity, competitiveness, and technology.
Media contact: Sophia Stileman (sophia.stileman@conservativeanimalwelfarefoundation.org)
