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 is 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)

Dates and topics

November 2020	Global Forum on Environment: Towards cost-effective management systems for industrial and consumer chemicals
September 2020	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change - organised by the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
June 2020	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change - organised by the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
March 2020	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change - organised by the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
March 2020	Global Forum on Environment: March on Gender - Mainstreaming Gender and Empowering Women for Environmental Sustainability, OECD Paris
October 2019	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change - organised by the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
March 2019	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change - organised by the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
October 2018	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change - organised by the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
July 2018	Global Forum on Environment: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development, Montreal
May 2018	Global Forum on Environment: Plastics in a Circular Economy - Design of Sustainable Plastics from a Chemicals Perspective, Copenhagen
March 2018	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change Expert Group
September 2017	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change - organised by the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
March 2017	Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change - organised by the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
October 2016	Global Forum on Environment: Towards quantifying the links between environment and economic growth, OECD, Paris
September 2016	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris
March 2016	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, ParisOECD, Paris
September 2015	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris
March 2015	Global Forum on Environment, Climate Change Expert Group, OECD, Paris
November 2014	Global Forum on Environment: New perspectives on the Food-Water-Energy Nexus, Paris
September 2014	Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) Global Forum, OECD, Paris
June 2014	Global Forum on Environment: Promoting Sustainable Materials Management through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Tokyo, Japan
March 2014	Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) Global Forum, OECD, Paris
September 2013	Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) Global Forum, OECD, Paris
March 2013	Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) Global Forum, OECD, Paris
September 2012	CCXG Global Forum on the New UNFCCC Market Mechanism and Tracking Climate Finance, OECD, Paris
Oct. 2011	Global Forum on Environment: Making Water Reform Happen, OECD, Paris
September 2011	Global Forum on Environment - CCXG Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and Carbon Markets, IEA, Paris
March 2011	Global Forum on Environment - CCXG Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and Carbon Markets, OECD, Paris
Oct.2010	Sustainable Materials Management (SMM), Mechelen, Belgium
Sept. 2010	Global Forum on the Environment – Key issues for the post-2012 climate framework, IEA, Paris
Nov. 2009	Policies to Support Eco-innovation: Lessons learned and Ways Forwards, OECD Paris
Dec. 2008	Financing and Pricing Water: the roles of government policies, the private sector and civil society, Paris
Nov. 2008	Transport and Environment in a Globalising World, Guadalajara, Mexico
Nov.2006	Public-Private Partnerships in Water Supply and Sanitation – Recent Trends and New Opportunities, Paris
March 2006	Working Together to Respond to Climate Change: Annex I Expert Group Seminar in conjunction with the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, Paris
2005	Environmental Enforcement and Compliance, 7th INECE Conference, Marrakech
Dec. 2004	Economic Aspects of Environmental Compliance Assurance, Paris
Dec. 2003	Financing Water and Environmental Infrastructure for All, Paris
April 2002	Financing the Environmental Dimension of Sustainable Development, Paris

Further reading

• Global Forum on Environment
• Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)