Multilateral environmental agreement and FTA EU and New Zealand

The EU and the New Zealand recognise the importance of international environmental governance, in particular the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and its highest governing body, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), as well as multilateral environmental agreements (“MEAs“), as a response of the international community to global or regional environmental challenges and stress the need to enhance the mutual supportiveness between trade and environment policies.