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About the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment (UNSPBF):

The UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment is the United Nations’ premier, fastest-growing multi- sector convening platform on the environment, encouraging ‘Technology, Partnership and Integrated Solutions for Nature’.

The Forum is a catalyst for nature-positive solutions and works towards a fairer, more equitable world. It builds on the power of partnership to scale up solutions, ones that are driven by advances in science and technology, empowering policies, and innovative financing. It informs powerful global processes including the UN Environment Assembly, the highest level decision-making body on the environment.

In 2021, the first of the Forum’s regional mechanisms was launched in Asia-Pacific, in conjunction with the convening of the 4th session of the Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia-Pacific region, hosted by the Republic of Korea.  In August 2023, the launch of SPBF in the Africa region took place in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia as part of the 19th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). For more information please visit: https://un-spbf.org/

In turn, the second UN Science-Policy-Business Forum for the Asia-Pacific Region, hosted by Sri Lanka, will report back to and support the 5th Session of the Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia-Pacific region.