The 2023 GlobalABC Annual Assembly took place on 1-2 June in Helsinki, Finland.
This year, the Assembly took place right after the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) 2023 and was hosted by the Ministry of the Environment, Finland. The 2023 Assembly has been the best-attended GlobalABC Assembly yet with the highest number of GlobalABC members from the global south. Overall, about 85 participants took part in person and 90 participants online. We were truly delighted to welcome many of our members, especially including national governments, in person and online!
The GlobalABC Annual Assembly, a key moment for the buildings and construction community, provides a forum for all GlobalABC members to meet and discuss strategic direction and the way forward. This year, fruitful discussions were carried out around the Buildings Breakthrough, GlobalABC strategy & milestones over the coming years, Work Area activities, 2023/2024 work plan, Member marketplace & exchange, etc.
The GlobalABC has been growing since its foundation at COP21, now counting 280 members, including 38 countries, and is fully recognised as a critical and trusted platform for accelerating the global transformation of the buildings and construction sector. It is through its growing body and the generous contributions of its members that the GlobalABC is flourishing, making the voice of buildings and construction and the need for a sustainable transformation of the sector heard globally.
2030 is around the corner and a coalition of all actors from the buildings and construction sector’s value chain - such as the GlobalABC - is critical to making the sector’s sustainability transformation happen, by coordinating actions and achieving collective impacts at the speed and scale that are required, to meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As a community, we can make it happen!
Thank you to all participants and special thanks to the Ministry of the Environment, Finland for generously hosting the 2023 GlobalABC Assembly!
