This summer, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had the chance to don the badge of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future and attend a United Nations conference. Lily Mefford is a rising junior studying Public…
You can now read SF’s most recent governance paper, ‘The Plastics Treaty Process Needs Greatly Improved Observer Participation at this Critical Point in the Negotiations and Beyond,’ by Craig Boljkovac. In 2022, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) mandated an…
‘Preparing for the 2027 Review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Including the SDGs,’ an in-person side event and Zoom webinar at the 2026 United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (the HLPF), was held on 6 July…
Just published by the IPS – the Inter Press Service News Agency – Stakeholder Forum Fellow Felix Dodds and co-author Chris Spence consider the future of UN Climate Meetings after the June 2026 UN Climate Meetings in Bonn. With progress…
On 27 January 2026, Stakeholder Forum Fellow Branislava Balac spoke at this year’s United Nations ECOSOC Partnership Forum. The intervention focused on SDGs 7, 11, and 17—under review this year, where she emphasized the need to move from broad commitments…
The Seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) was the basis for SF’s most recent initiative, ‘Enhance Civil Society and Other Stakeholder Engagement at UNEA7 and in the 2027 Review of the 2030 Agenda.’ It was delivered in…
On December 4th 2025 (09:30-11:00), Stakeholder Forum Fellow Felix Dodds conducted a capacity-building workshop for new stakeholder delegates – and those wishing for a refresher – on understanding UNEA and its processes, how to engage with government representatives, and how…
Jump to the article now or download a PDF here On July 18, 2025, at the UN Headquarters in New York, Stakeholder Forum, in partnership with the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the UN and co-sponsored by the…
You can now read SF’s most recent blog, ‘Climate Change Goes to Court: What the ICJ Just Told the World’, by Prof Daniella Tilbury, SF Fellow. On July 23, 2025, something quietly historic happened in The Hague: the International Court…
You can now read SF’s most recent blog, ‘UN Reform: Is it Time to Renew the Idea of Clustering the Major Environmental Agreements?’, by Felix Dodds and Chris Spence. Felix, an SF Fellow, is a former SF Executive Director. Chris…