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Global Policy Dialogue on the Triple Planetary Crisis (Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Pollution) and Future of Environmental Governance

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Posted 16 July 2025

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ACUNS Annual Meeting

23-25 June 2025

Co-Sponsors: Global Governance Innovation Network, Academic Council on the UN System, Stimson Center, Global Challenges Foundation, United Nations University Center for Policy Research, Leiden University, Plataforma CIPÓ, Global Institute for Strategic Research, Council on Energy, Environment & Water, Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy & Development

The 2025 Academic Council on the UN System Annual Meeting on "Environmental Multilateralism and Human Development," held from 23–25 June 2025 at the University of Nairobi and United Nations Office in Nairobi, featured three Global Policy Dialogue (GPD) sessions and a concluding plenary focused on the theme of "The Triple Planetary Crisis (Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Pollution) and Future of Environmental Governance." These sessions were convened with the following objectives:

  • To expand the knowledge base for more capable global institutions to better cope with existing and emerging environmental challenges and to create new opportunities through effective global action, including with scholars, policy researchers and advocates, and the private sector.
  • To convene leading policy researchers, practitioners, and advocates to debate and recommend specific global institutional, policy, legal, normative, and operational innovations that could follow through the agenda of the Pact for the Future, adopted by the United Nations Summit of the Future in September 2024.
  • To make targeted recommendations for mobilizing support and operationalizing global environmental commitments—including the Paris Climate Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the 2030 Agenda, and others—in a shifting geopolitical climate.

The GPD sessions were organized into three thematic discussions (i. Global Governance of Climate; ii. Global Governance of Biodiversity and Nature; and iii. Global Governance of Pollution and Waste) and explored the following questions:

  • What are the structural drivers of the triple planetary crisis, and what political, legal, and institutional obstacles impede multilateral solutions?
  • How can normative, policy, institutional, operational, and legal reforms overcome these barriers to enable effective action?
  • How can GPD partners extend the COP 30 and Summit of the Future research agendas to produce innovative initiatives that mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution at scale?

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