Date 📅: 27 August 2025
Meeting Modality: Hybrid Session
Venue 📍: Crowne Plaza, Nadi, Fiji
Time ⏲️: 09:00-18:00 (GMT+12)
Meeting Room: Viti Levu 1
Regional Consultative Meeting of the UNEP Major Groups and Stakeholders, Asia Pacific ahead of the sixth Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific (6th AP Forum) took place on 27 August 2025 at the Crowne Plaza in Nadi, Fiji. The Forum was jointly organized by the Asia-Pacific Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Government of Fiji. 2
The Asia-Pacific Regional CSOs Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM), a platform representing over 500 civil society organizations in the region, worked closely with UNEP in convening regional consultation meetings and processes. It played a key role in amplifying regional voices within global environmental forums.
FORUM OBJECTIVES
The Asia Pacific Forum was intended to provide a platform for major groups and stakeholders, social movements, grassroots, and frontline communities in the Asia Pacific to organize their positions and strategic inputs and ensure that the voices of marginalized sectors and grassroots are included in the outcome of the 6th Forum of Ministers. The collective outcome from the MGS Forum fed into the 6th Ministers Forum as well as the UNEA 7 discussions.
The Major Group and Stakeholders’ Forum aimed:
- To provide major groups, stakeholders, and grassroots representatives with the opportunity to prepare and present their collective views and positions on the UNEA 7 theme, as well as regional challenges and priorities.
- To ensure that the voices and perspectives of major groups, stakeholders, and grassroots movements in the region were represented at the Senior Officials and Ministerial Forum and reflected in the outcome of the 6th Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia-Pacific.
- To offer major groups, stakeholders, and grassroots representatives from across the region the opportunity to engage in discussions and contribute their input to the UNEA process, including on draft resolutions and the draft ministerial declaration.
- To discuss and highlight community-based sustainable and innovative solutions to environmental challenges, as well as to provide policy-relevant recommendations on multilateral actions advancing sustainable and science-based climate, nature and pollution solutions.
