Renewing Modern Environmental Multilateralism: Adapting to Respond to Today's Challenges and Tomorrow's Opportunities.


Ministers convene at UNGA81 to discuss renewing environmental multilateralism. The High-level dialogue, hosted by the Governments of Panama and Vanuatu, with support of the Center for International Environmental Law and WWF will examine how international cooperation can adapt to deliver on the triple planetary crisis.


The 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly opens at a defining moment for multilateralism. The urgency of The triple planetary crisis — climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution — coupled with increasingly complex environmental negotiations and growing challenges to reaching consensus, is prompting Member States to explore how multilateral processes can evolve while preserving their legitimacy and inclusiveness. Plurilateral and complementary approaches among those ready to move forward are intended to strengthen the multilateral system, not replace it, by sustaining political momentum and delivering more effective international outcomes.

The dialogue comes as the United Nations implements the Pact for the Future, advances the UN80 Initiative, and prepares for a new chapter of leadership. The event will bring together heads of state, ministers, and leaders from civil society, academia, and business to address how multilateralism can remain essential and effective in an increasingly complex geopolitical context.

Participants will examine three recent initiatives as examples of — and opportunities for — environmental multilateralism adapting in practice: the resumed negotiations toward a global plastics treaty; United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/80/263, adopted following the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change; and the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. Ministers will provide reflections on the outcomes needed from each process to reinforce confidence in the multilateral system, and on the role that complementary, Member State-led approaches can play in delivering concrete international outcomes to address shared challenges.

Moderator: 
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN Human Rights Commissioner; Juan Carlos Santos, former President of Colombia
Opening keynotes: Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General (to be confirmed); Judge Phoebe Nyawade Okowa, ICJ
Ministerial leadership: Hon. Ralph Regenvanu, Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, Energy, Environment, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards and Disaster Management, Vanuatu; Hon. Juan Carlos Navarro, Minister of Environment, Panama
Ministerial dialogue: Ministers from Armenia, Fiji, Indonesia, Norway, Palau, Peru, Poland, Senegal, Slovenia, and South Korea. High-level representatives from Cambodia, France, Germany, Grenada, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Switzerland — advisory to be updated as more confirm.
Voices beyond government: Rebecca Brown, CEO and President, Center for International Environmental Law; Efraim Gomez, Director of Global Policy, WWF — advisory to be updated as more confirm.

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