Civil Society Engagement
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) recognizes the importance of engaging Major Groups and other Stakeholders as partners and appreciates the perspectives they bring to the table, valuable research and advocacy functions they perform and their role in helping foster long-term, broad-based support for UNEP’s mission.
Intergovernmental decisions will have stronger and broader recognition and support by the public if governments take Major Groups and other Stakeholders views into account as early as possible in policy-making and decision-making processes. Major Groups and other Stakeholders also play a direct role in the formation of policy as researchers, think-tanks, and watchdogs, or through advocacy.
Major Groups and Stakeholders are currently engaged in the following processes:
- The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment
- Ad hoc Open-Ended Working Group on a science-policy panel to implement Resolution 5/8 to contribute to the sound management of chemicals and waste to prevent pollution
- Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7)
