The Expert meeting on Best Available Technologies and Best Environmental Practices under the Stockholm Convention will focus on the review and finalization of the guidance documents under review during the current intersessional period, on the identification of guidance documents that need to be revised or newly developed in the next intersessional period, and on the development of conclusions and recommendations and the workplan for the next biennium for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its twelfth meeting.

The Chemical Review Committee finalises draft decision guidance documents for chemicals recommended to be listed under Annex III to the Convention at the next Conference of the Parties.

Just before the start of the 20th meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC), we talked to Christine Fuell, Senior Technical Officer and Team Leader in FAO’s Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) and Executive Secretary ad interim of the Rotterdam Convention.

On 12-13 September 2024, the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions participated in the One Planet Network Forum, a global event hosted by UNEP and the Government of Brazil to accelerate the implementation of the Global Strategy on Sustainable Consumption and Production and SDG12.