About Us
What are the transformative actions required to put the world on track to meet multilateral environmental goals, the technologies and innovations to power greener and more equitable transitions, and the enabling conditions to pave the way?
Launched at the UN Environment Assembly in December 2017, the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment (UN-SPBF) is the United Nations’ fastest-growing inter-agency, multi-sector convening platform on the environment.
The Forum builds on the power of partnership to scale up solutions and grow green technology markets, ones that are driven by advances in science and technology, empowering policies, and innovative financing.
Since its launch, the Forum has grown into a dynamic interface of over 3,500 contributors and partner institutions — representing the worlds of business, science and policy — who are committed to this vision. It provides a unique platform for multiple sectors to work together to help shape a sustainable and equitable future for all.
In the context of the Forum, the UN Environment Programme and its partners take a multipronged approach to leverage the Forum’s convening power:
The Forum organizes issues-based consultations, roundtables, thematic conferences, and in-depth negotiations between top scientists, policy makers, citizen science groups, and the business sector.
Through our work on big data and other reports, we identify gaps in knowledge required to track progress in mainstreaming environmental concerns in policy through large-scale research projects.
We showcase the positive impact of transformative green solutions and technologies, and take stock of the policies and investments required to scale up successful models in different contexts around the world.
The Forum identifies key innovations for the shift to sustainable consumption and production to address the three planetary crises – climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
The communities built by the Forum are meant to last: bringing together members of the worlds of science, business, and policy – both high-level and bottom up – for constructive dialogue is a means to an end.
Finally, the Forum’s work is presented to, and feeds into, the consultations to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), the UN High Level Political Forum and the UNEA Bureau.