Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF) & UNEA – 6
The Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF) helps Major Groups and Stakeholders to prepare their input and participation in the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The forum takes place just before UNEA. It is the world’s highest decision-making body for environmental issues and provides an avenue for civil society to craft their stances, statements, and contributions to the UNEA-6 process. Accredited Major Groups to the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) of UNEP are invited to take part in this very important forum.
This year, the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) was represented by four people from the Regional Sustainability Network. It took place on 24th and 25th February 2024.
UNEP works with the following nine Major Groups:
Non-governmental organizations, Farmers, Indigenous peoples and their communities, Local authorities, Women, The Scientific and Technological Community, Business and industry Children and Youth & Workers and Trade Unions.
The NGOs Major Group is the most diverse and has the highest number of accredited organizations with UNEP and with the UN system in general. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) make valuable contributions to promoting sustainable development through their well-established and diverse experience, expertise, and capacity, especially in the area of analysis, sharing of information and knowledge, promotion of dialogue, and support of implementation of sustainable development. NGOs are involved in many UNEP activities, at policy and programmatic levels, including implementation of projects through partnerships.
The sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) is taking place from 26 February to 1 March 2024 at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
As the world's top decision-making body on the environment, UNEA aims to help restore harmony between humanity and nature, improving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.
UNEA-6 will focus on how multilateralism can help tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Backed by strong science, political resolve, and engagement with society, the Assembly will be an opportunity for world governments, civil society groups, the scientific community, and the private sector to shape global environmental policy.
As the planet’s only universal membership forum for the environment, UNEA provides a unique platform for courageous decisions and new ideas to chart a bold plan of collective environmental action. In so doing, UNEA-6 will support the achievement of the sustainable development goals.
This year, the Hanns Seidel Foundation was represented by two people from HSF South Korea and two partners of HSF Mongolia through the GMACC Project.
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