The nearly USD 700 million Work Program approved focuses heavily on chemicals and waste at a time when the GEF hopes to prove to the multilateral community it has the capacity to serve as the financial mechanism for a global plastics treaty and that it could play a significant role in realizing the vision of the Global Framework on Chemicals.

UNFF delegates will discuss implementation of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030 and their three priorities of reversing the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, increasing the area of protected forests worldwide, and promoting governance frameworks to implement sustainable forest management.

Advancing sustainability solutions to climate challenges faced by hot and arid countries, the Earthna Summit 2025 will explore resilience to water scarcity, harnessing AI for smarter governance, and how the tradition-technology nexus can address food insecurity, among other issues.

After working 30 hours overtime, IPCC Member Countries agreed on the outlines of the three Working Group reports and agreed on a decision that enables the author nomination process for the Seventh Assessment Report to begin. There was still no agreement on the timeline for the reports’ delivery.