Stakeholder Forum follow up to UNEA 7

 

Welcome to Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future's UNEA 7 Newsletter # 3   Dear Sustainable Development Friends and Colleagues, Hello, and Happy New Year from the team at Stakeholder Forum. We wish you the very best for 2026! With the Seventh Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) now concluded, we are seeking additional comments from the global stakeholder community on the publications we shared with you during UNEA 7. They are: §   The first public draft of 'A Pocket Guide to Environment and Sustainable Development Governance,' and §   The Discussion Paper to Inform the 2027 Review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on the environmental SDGs. It's your last chance to add your comments to those already submitted, as we've agreed with UNEP that the comment periods will conclude at 11:59 PM ET on Friday, 16 January 2026.  With one week to go, your input would be greatly appreciated - and do please share this newsletter with your networks. The Third Edition of 'A Pocket Guide to Environment and Sustainable Development Governance' was produced in partnership with the Civil Society Unit of UNEP and with the support of the European Commission. You can read the first draft and comment on all 12 chapters here. We need your input to make it even better. The Discussion Paper to Inform the 2027 Review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals needs your input too! Please submit your comments and ideas on the paper by visiting the web portal we created for the global community of stakeholders; it can be found here. Please contribute to help us make it better. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Additional Content for you As with the first two editions of the UNEA-7 Special Edition of Network 2030, we’d like to make you remind you of Stakeholder Forum’s recently published report, and a series of papers, around the idea of Clustering Multilateral Environmental Agreements, focusing on the Triple Planetary Crisis of Pollution, Biodiversity, and Climate Change, that you might find useful for your time at UNEA 7 and your work in general. It is a contribution to the UN80 Initiative, established to rebuild multilateralism for this time and to ensure that the United Nations is fit for purpose, 'UN80: Reform of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements – Around the Triple Planetary Crisis of Pollution, Biodiversity, and Climate Change,' highlights the idea of clustering the environmental conventions. Edited by SF Fellow Felix Dodds and journalist Chris Spence, the report includes reflections by Liz Dowdeswell, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme from 1992 to 1998. Circulated to member states in Nairobi, New York, and Capitals, it recognizes that the world is in one of its most difficult periods and that multilateralism is under threat - not just the ones the UN refers to as the Triple Planetary Crisis – climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, but also migration and displacement, conflict, and the emergence of many new technologies that will impact our societies in ways we can only imagine. The report focuses on the opportunity to complete the work of former UNEP Executive Directors Klaus Töpfer and Achim Steiner on ‘clustering’ the UN treaties on pollution (chemicals and waste), biodiversity, and climate change. It also examines how the relevant science bodies for these three clusters can cooperate more effectively, and proposes that the Global Environment Ministers Forum be re-established to meet in the year the UN Environment Assembly does not convene. In addition, the report was discussed at a workshop of the Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development. You will find a summary of the outcomes from that workshop in the report, and a video explaining MEA clustering is available here. Read more about the report here, where you can download it in full, and download each of the contributions as individual papers from the Stakeholder Forum website, or via the links below. §   Paper 1 – Clustering the Environmental Conventions (C. Spence and F. Dodds) §   Paper 2 – The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, etc. (M. Stanley-Jones) §   Paper 3 – Toward Enhanced Synergies Among Biodiversity‑Related MEAs (H-M. Schally) §   Paper 4 – Clustering Climate Conventions (S. Azores) §   Paper 5 – Better use of Expertise in Navigating the Polycrisis (P. Bridgewater and R. Kim) §   Paper 6 – UN80 – Is it Time for the Re-Emergence of the Global Ministerial Environment Forum (J-G. Strandenaes) §   Paper 7 – Financing the Triple Planetary Crisis of Chemicals and Waste, Biodiversity and Climate Change (Craig Boljkovac, Hugo-Maria Schally, et.al.)   The Global Plastics Negotiations Stakeholder Forum’s Newest Governance Paper, ‘Breaking the Deadlock – Ideas for Advancing a Global Treaty on Plastics Pollution,’ by Craig Boljkovac, is now available. That’s all for this 3rd edition! We hope you find our UNEA 7 Special Editions to be a valuable contribution to your work, and do please let us know what you think by writing to us at info@stakeholderforum.org The Stakeholder Forum Team   You received the Network 2030 newsletter because you subscribed to our mailing list, registered for one of Stakeholder Forum's webinars, a UN side event, or a stakeholder training workshop. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletters or invitations to webinars and related events, please write to info@stakeholderforum.org with Unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you.