diff --git a/src/api/hooks.cc b/src/api/hooks.cc
index 3b1ee90a99ae1d..cec58cee00847c 100644
--- a/src/api/hooks.cc
+++ b/src/api/hooks.cc
@@ -130,8 +130,11 @@ async_context EmitAsyncInit(Isolate* isolate,
 }
 
 void EmitAsyncDestroy(Isolate* isolate, async_context asyncContext) {
-  AsyncWrap::EmitDestroy(
-      Environment::GetCurrent(isolate), asyncContext.async_id);
+  EmitAsyncDestroy(Environment::GetCurrent(isolate), asyncContext);
+}
+
+void EmitAsyncDestroy(Environment* env, async_context asyncContext) {
+  AsyncWrap::EmitDestroy(env, asyncContext.async_id);
 }
 
 }  // namespace node
diff --git a/src/node.h b/src/node.h
index cbf9b938f1ed9e..fadfd8b7866b49 100644
--- a/src/node.h
+++ b/src/node.h
@@ -685,9 +685,16 @@ NODE_EXTERN async_context EmitAsyncInit(v8::Isolate* isolate,
                                         v8::Local<v8::String> name,
                                         async_id trigger_async_id = -1);
 
-/* Emit the destroy() callback. */
+/* Emit the destroy() callback. The overload taking an `Environment*` argument
+ * should be used when the Isolate’s current Context is not associated with
+ * a Node.js Environment, or when there is no current Context, for example
+ * when calling this function during garbage collection. In that case, the
+ * `Environment*` value should have been acquired previously, e.g. through
+ * `GetCurrentEnvironment()`. */
 NODE_EXTERN void EmitAsyncDestroy(v8::Isolate* isolate,
                                   async_context asyncContext);
+NODE_EXTERN void EmitAsyncDestroy(Environment* env,
+                                  async_context asyncContext);
 
 class InternalCallbackScope;