27th February 2024
This morning Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) Co-Founder Lorraine Platt delivered a speech at a panel event at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), the world’s top decision-making body on the environment.
CAWF Co-Founder Lorraine Platt (front right)
Her speech was on ‘The role of civil society in multilateral actions in addressing the triple planetary crisis’, and explored how these crises are interconnected, posing severe threats to global ecosystems and human civilization. Lorraine spoke on the need to end factory farms and highlighted that reductions in meat consumption can yield significant benefits for our economic, environmental, and personal health, and help meet climate goals. She highlighted that civil society organisations, with their broad expertise and grassroots connections, can play an important role in narrowing the gap between high-level policy dialogues and actionable ground solutions. She emphasised the necessity of 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.
Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation is delighted to have participated in this important panel, and would like to thank Africa Network For Animal Welfare (ANAW) for organising the event. Other speakers included Michael O’Brien Onyeka, Executive VP at Nature for Justice; Hope Ferdowsian, CEO of Phoenix Zones Initiative USA; Luther Anukur, Regional Director of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Philip Lymbery, Global CEO of Compassion in World Farming; Anna Marry, Senior Global External Affairs Advisor at Brooke; and Tennyson Williams, Director for Africa at World Animal Protection.
UNEA-6 is taking place from 26 February to 1 March 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya, with a focus on how multilateralism can help tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.
This year UNEA-6 brings together 193 Member States, intergovernmental organisations, civil society groups, the scientific community, and the private sector to shape global environmental policy. More than 70 ministers and 3,000 delegates are in attendance.
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)
