On 24 November 2025, Stakeholder Forum updated the fifth in its sdg2030 Series reports: UN80: Reform of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements – Around the Triple Planetary Crisis of Pollution, Biodiversity, and Climate Change
The fifth in the series recognises that the world is in one of its most difficult periods and that multilateralism is under threat. These are 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 UN80 Initiative was set up to rebuild multilateralism for this time and to ensure that the United Nations is fit for purpose. This report focuses on the opportunity to finish the work of the former UNEP Executive Directors Klaus Toepfer 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.
The report was edited by Felix Dodds and Chris Spence, with Reflections by Liz Dowdeswell and contributions from Felix Dodds, Chris Spence, Michael Stanley-Jones, Hugo-Maria Schally, Stacey Azores, Peter Bridgewater and Rakhyun Kim, Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Idil Boran, and Craig Boljkovac. You can find the full report here.
If you’d like to download the report’s content as individual papers, click on 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.)