Highlights: World Environment Day 2021: Ecosystem Restoration - World Environment Day, was celebrated on 5 June 2021, under the theme Ecosystem Restoration. Pakistan hosted the official live event that reached over 170 million people. Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the planting of the first billion trees under the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami initiative. UNEP and FAO launched the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030. UNEP released a synthesis report entitled, Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate. It is a call to action to everyone to join the restoration movement to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. World Oceans Day - World Oceans Day 2021, was celebrated globally on 8 June 2021, under the theme, “Lives and Livelihoods.” UNEP’s Clean Seas Campaign reaffirmed its global efforts to tackle marine litter and plastic pollution, with a focus on the relationship between seas and oceans and human rights. Science for Action - For the first time, the Global Methane Assessment integrated the climate and air pollution costs and benefits from methane mitigation. The 2020 Protected Planet Report, delivers the final report on progress achieved against the Aichi Biodiversity Target 11, on conservation of terrestrial and inland water as well as coastal and marine areas. The report found that the international community has made major progress towards the global target on protected and conserved area coverage but fell short on its commitments on the quality of the protected areas. The State of Finance for Nature , revealed that if the world was to meet the climate change, biodiversity, and land degradation targets, it needed to close a USD 4.1 trillion financing gap in nature by 2050. The second edition of Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs was launched for the International Day for Biological Diversity 22 May 2021. The International Resource Panel assessment on Governing coastal resources: Implications for a Sustainable Blue Economy, provided possible governance responses to reduce the effects of land-based activities on coastal resources. UNEP@50 and Stockholm+50 - On 24 May 2021, the General Assembly, through resolution 75/280, decided to convene an international meeting entitled “Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity.” UNEP will serve as the focal point for providing support to its organization, with appropriate support from the Secretariat and other relevant UN entities. The Assembly also decides that the international meeting should be mutually reinforcing with UNEP@50, avoiding overlap and duplication.