Introduction
26-29 August 2025, Republic of Fiji
The sixth Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific (6th AP Forum) will take place from 26th to 29th August 2025 in Nadi, Fiji. The event is jointly organized by the Government of Fiji's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the United Nations Environment Programme.
The Forum provides a platform for governments, intergovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders to discuss and prioritize environmental issues in the Asia Pacific region. It aims to contribute to the outcome of the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) taking place from 08 to 12 December 2025 in Nairobi, with the theme "Advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet".
The Forum offers Member States and other stakeholders an opportunity to present an Asia Pacific perspective on discussions at UNEA-7. Participants will review the progress of UNEA resolutions' implementation in the region, as well as the progress made in regional forums and platforms where UNEP is the secretariat. Such forums include the Asia Pacific Clean Air Partnership, Asia Pacific Adaptation Network, Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia, and the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Environment and Health.
Furthermore, the Forum will identify regional priorities and emerging issues, and address challenges and opportunities to strengthen the regional environmental agenda, delivering on environmental dimension of the SDGs, and regional commitments to multilateral environmental agreements. Participants will contribute to the draft UNEA-7 result documents, including ministerial statements and draft resolutions, and will share their insights and ideas to achieving the environmental dimension of the 2030 SDGs.
At the Forum, participants will assess the implementation progress of UNEA resolutions in Asia and the Pacific, review regional environmental initiatives, and contribute to the UNEP’s next Medium-term Strategy (2026-2029) and the Programme of Work (2026-2027). The Forum will also provide an opportunity for stakeholders to contribute to the draft outcome documents of UNEA-7, including the ministerial declaration and draft resolutions.
Background
At the 6th session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), the world’s ministers for the environment adopted the Ministerial Declaration on 1 March 2024, in which Para 18 call for the reinforcement of UNEP and its catalytic role, both at its headquarters and at its regional offices, in strengthening regional cooperation, including through regional ministerial forums, and, while excluding politicization of environmental processes, in tackling context-specific environmental challenges.
United Nations Environment Assembly resolution 6/3 of 1 March 2024 titled ‘Enhancing the role and viability of regional forums of environment ministers and United Nations Environment Programme regional offices in achieving multilateral cooperation in tackling environmental challenges’.
The Forums of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific were held in May 2015 in Bangkok (1st AP Forum), in September 2017 in Bangkok (2nd AP Forum), and in January 2019 (3rd AP Forum) in Singapore, and in October 2021 in Suwon City (4th AP Forum), and the fifth session of the Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific (5th AP Forum) was hosted by Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Colombo on 3-6 October 2023.
