You can now read SF’s most recent governance paper, ‘Lessons Learned from the BRS Conventions Synergies Process, Which Could Be Applied to the UNEP-Administered and Extended to Selected Other Biodiversity Conventions,’ by Craig Boljkovac, Hugo-Maria Schally, and Felix Dodds.
The UN80 process is a major United Nations reform effort launched in 2025 to modernise the organisation for its 80th anniversary, focusing on making it more efficient, agile, and effective by streamlining structures, reducing bureaucracy, and better aligning programs with current global challenges like climate change, conflict, and technological shifts. UN80 has three key workstreams with Member States making final decisions on proposals.
This paper addresses all three and builds on the work initiated by former UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer on clustering Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). This work was continued by his successor Achim Steiner as member states engaged in a process for the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, culminating in a joint set of recommendations/decisions that effectively realised “synergies”. You can read the full paper here.
