The Global Forum on Environment* (GFENV) is a venue that brings together international experts from member and non-member economies to share experiences and explore common policy issues focusing principally on the environmental dimension of sustainable development and its linkages with economic and social policies. Issues to be addressed in the Global Forum on Environment are shaped based on the current work of the OECD Environment Programme, by focusing on one or two priority issues on the global environmental agenda each year.

(* formerly known as Global Forum on Sustainable Development)

Objectives

• Raise awareness and understanding of the environment dimension of sustainable development issues worldwide;
• Facilitate information-sharing on environmental issues among policy makers, private sector actors and civil society representatives; and
• Promote exchange of information and lessons learned among OECD and non-OECD countries
  
  

Dates and topics

2018
July (tbc)	Global Forum on Environment: Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Natural Capital in Development
29-31 May	Global Forum on Environment: Plastics in a Circular Economy - Design of Sustainable Plastics from a Chemicals Perspective, Copenhagen
March 2018	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris
2017
September 2017	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris
March 2017	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris

 

• Events prior to 2017
  
  

Participation

• Environment-related policy makers, academics, industry representatives and other experts from OECD and non-OECD countries.
  
  

FURTHER READING

• Environment Policy Committee (EPOC)