First UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) of the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Panel discussion on Financing - the Need (L-R): Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD, Madeleine Ronquest, Head of Environmental and Social Risk, Climate Change at FirstRand Limited, Elliott Harris, UNEP, and Nick Robins, UNEP

Panelists at the session on Country Innovation in Greening Finance, Wang Jingdong, Senior Executive Vice President, ICBC, and Joshua Oigara, Group Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Commerical Bank, shake hands while moderator, Charles Anderson, Director, UNEP Finance Initiative, looks on

Closing session (L-R): James Fletcher, Minister for Public Service, Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology, Saint Lucia, Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP, Simon Zadek, Co-Director, UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, and Bruno Oberle, Secretary of State, Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland

Ibrahim Thiaw, UNEP Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Tim Kasten, UNEP Chemicals Branch Head, Chair Fernando Lugris, and Masa Nagai, Division of Environmental Law and Conventions, UNEP

Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP, and Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment, sign MoU reinforcing collaboration in the field of environment and climate change

Participants visiting the event exhibit