• Eighteen major groups representatives are appointed every two years after email consultation and online bidding process, two from each of the nine major groups: Farmers, Women, the Scientific and Technological Community, Children and Youth, Indigenous Peoples and their Communities, Workers and Trade Unions, Business and Industry, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Local Authorities.
• Twelve regional representatives (two from each of the six regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America and West Asia) are elected for a one year term during the Regional Consultative Meetings (RCMs).

1. Provide and develop logistics and process understanding so the Major Groups will be able to maximise their presence under the aegis of the rules of engagement and procedure that the UN and UNEP have set up.
2. Provide guidance and find expertise to develop policy positions representing the best from the Major Group constituencies relevant to the agenda points of the UNEP GC/GMEF.
3. As the UNEP GC and GMEF are policy meetings, and the work of the Major Groups in this context is of that nature, the agendas of all the meetings, regional and central, will be that of the UNEP GC or GMEF.
4. The agenda of the GMGSF including the choice of the keynote speakers, and the names of the sponsored participants to the GMGSF will be decided by consensus between UNEP Secretariat and the MGFC.

1. Maximise participation of representatives of its Major Group worldwide in the UNEP GC/GMEF and its related meetings;
2. Promote a good representation of the Major Group at the regional meeting, and ensure that the participants have received the necessary information relating to the agenda beforehand;
3. Facilitate the involvement of Major Groups members with specific issue knowledge in UNEP related work, both in the local, national and regional contexts as well as at UNEP GC and the UNEP GMEF;
4. Foster balanced representation on the basis of gender, focus and region;
5. Mobilise knowledgeable representatives of the Major Groups to participate in the UNEP GC and/or UNEP GMEF;
6. Assist participating Major Group members in having access to information related to the agenda for the UNEP meetings and in participating fully in the GC/GMEF and its related meetings, and in having free and unfettered access to delegates;
7. Provide general information, training and capacity building on UNEP process in line with the expressed visions, goals and targets as found in the Bali Plan of Action;
8. Generate broad media-interest, as well as on-going educational programmes around the world;
9. Maintain a web-based information hub, issue based list-serves, as well as general informational sites;
10. Disseminate issue-based information from the Major Groups and Stakeholders focussing on these issues, to others not directly involved in those issue-networks; and
11. Coordinate the work of the Major Groups policy papers.

1. Foster the participation of organisations of their Major Group at the six regional meetings;
2. In regions where their Major Groups are under-represented, help to identify and involve emerging or newly-established Major Groups in the regional meetings;
3. Promote inter-regional exchange and coordination of inputs within their Major Group;
4. Facilitate the integration of regional concerns into the Major Groups policy statements; and
5. Actively participate in identification of skilled or specialised presenters or facilitators at meetings.

1. Ms. Ms. Anabella Rosemberg. (ITUC) (TUAC), Workers and Trade Unions.
2. Ms. Nyurguyana Dordina, RAIPON, Indigenous People and their Communities.
3. Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Coordinatrice de l'AFP, Indigenous People and their Communities.
4. Mr. Ruud Schuthof, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Local Authorities
5. Mr Jon Townley, Head of International Sustainable Development and the Wales for Africa Team, Welsh Assembly Government. Local Authorities.
6. Ms. Sascha Garbizon, Director, Women in Europe for a Common Future, Women
7. Ms. Mildred Mkandla, Earth Care Africa, Women
8. Ms. Birgit Engelhardt, International Council of Chemicals Associations (ICCA), Business and Industry
9. Norine Kennedy, Vice-President, Environmental Affairs United States Council for International Business. Business and Industry.
10. Mr. Daniel B Magraw Jr. President, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), NGOs
11. Ms. Sara Svensson, Tunza Youth Advisor for Europe. Tunza Youth Advisory Council, Children and Youth.
12. Ms. Yaiguili Alvarado García!, Children and Youth.
13. Ms. Daniëlle Aletta de Man, Policy Officer, International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), Farmers
14. Ms. Nora Ourabah Haddad, Senior Policy Officer, IFAP, Farmers.
15. Mr. Deliang Chen, Executive Director, International Council for Science, Scientific and Technological Communities.
16. Dr. Mohamed Raouf, Program Manager - Environment Research. Gulf Research Center, Scientific and Technological Communities.

2 More major groups representatives are yet to be nominated

The 12 Regional Representatives from the regions are in process of being nominated.

ROLAC:

1. Ms. Cecilia Iglesias, Presidenta, Asociacion Civil Red Ambiental- ACRA
2. Ms. Alida Spadafora, Directora Ejecutiva, Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (ANCON