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

2020
5-6 March (tbc)	Global Forum on Environment: Mainstreaming Gender and Empowering Women for Sustainability, OECD Paris
2019
March	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris
2018
October	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD Paris
July	Global Forum on Environment: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development, Montreal
May	Global Forum on Environment: Plastics in a Circular Economy - Design of Sustainable Plastics from a Chemicals Perspective, Copenhagen
March	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris
2017
September	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris
March	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)