2023 Environment and Emergencies Forum

Mar 22, 2023 - Mar 23, 2023 | UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit
Brussels, Belgium
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The Environment and Emergencies Forum (EEF) is an inclusive global forum focused on the interface between the environment and humanitarian emergency response. It brings together stakeholders from around the world to showcase progress in environmental emergency preparedness and response and highlights current efforts and existing challenges as well as opportunities in integrating environmental risk in humanitarian action. The Forum offers environment, humanitarian aid and disaster management practitioners a unique opportunity to discuss global policy, share experiences and knowledge, forge new partnerships, and agree on key actions to make sure that our common response to emergencies is more efficient, local and sustainable.

The Forum has been organized every two years since 1995, as requested by Member States through a 1993 UN Environment Programme (UN Environment) Governing Council Decision.  Unfortunately, the 2021 Forum was cancelled due to COVID-19. In 2019, it was held as a strategic retreat to inform the stakeholders of the 5-year strategy. The 2017 EEF was held at the UN Gigiri compound in Nairobi, Kenya.

The 2023 Environment and Emergencies Forum is organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), through their Joint Environment Unit (JEU), and is hosted by the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG – ECHO). The event will take place from 22 to 23 March 2023 in Brussels, Belgium,  and it will explore the nexus of environmental risk, disasters, humanitarian crisis and other trends. It will provide a platform for taking action to strengthen environmental resilience through an increased focus on the readiness of member states, regional and national organizations, civil society, and academia, to respond to the environmental dimensions of emergencies. 

Express your interest for attending the 2023 EEF by 31 December 2022.