Members of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), including the Environmental Ambassadors for Sustainable Development, gathered from 19 to 21 May 2025 in Brussels for the General Assembly, to elect a new board and president, welcome 12 new organizations and jointly set guidelines for further joint work of the largest and most diverse network of environmental NGOs in Europe. The EEB currently consists of 196 organizations from 41 European countries. Member organizations from Serbia in the EEB are the “Environmental Ambassadors of Sustainable Development”, the Association “Environment”, the Association “Alhem”, and the “Environment Engineering Group”.
Back-to-back with the General Assembly, a strategic forum was held: “CSOs at the Crossroads of a Changing World Order“. Within the framework of the forum, members had the opportunity to discuss the EEB’s long-term strategy for the period 2020-2030 and engage in reflection on urgent global challenges affecting environmental protection. Participants had the opportunity to learn how to deal with disinformation, how to respond to narrowing opportunities for civic activism, how to engage in the implementation of artificial intelligence, and adapt to rapid changes in geopolitical and diplomatic relations.
The Strategic Forum was based on a dynamic discussion oriented towards solutions and concrete proposals for action. During the session, the members adopted the priorities of the Work Programme and the budget for the coming year and supported an urgent proposal to address the current geopolitical and environmental challenges:
“The EEB expresses its solidarity with humankind the world over. We call on all States to increase their humanitarian aid in the face of famine, threat of famine, disease and suffering consequent on natural and man-made disasters and conflicts.
In particular, we express our serious concern at the significant reduction and termination of major international aid programmes and funding by certain Countries whose role has been of profound importance.
We condemn the blocking of humanitarian aid, either deliberately or in passive complicity, when failing to observe the obligations of third States in respect of breaches of international law.
We call urgently on all States to take all diplomatic and economic measures necessary to act to ensure the immediate safe passage of humanitarian aid, including to Gaza”.
