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A Regional Workshop aiming at assisting Parties in the preparation for the implementation of the E-waste Amendments to the Basel Convention which will come into effect on 1 January 2025, is being held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 14 to 18 October 2024. The workshop is organized by the Secretar...
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The Expert Group on BAT and BEP under the Stockholm Convention met in Geneva from 8 to 10 October and agreed on the finalization of six guidance documents to be considered by the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention in 2025.
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The recommendations from the Chemical Review Committee for amending Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention to be considered by the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties have been circulated to Parties.
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On 3rd October 2024 G20 Environment and Climate Ministers, convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, adopted a landmark Declaration reaffirming their commitment to address some of the world's most pressing environmental challenges.
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The third part of the fourth meeting of the small intersessional working group on the strategic framework for the implementation of the Basel Convention, meets in Geneva from 7 to 8 October 2024. The working group will finalize a renewed strategic framework for the implementation of the Basel Conve...
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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 rev...
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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.
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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.
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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 SD...
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The twentieth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention will take place from 23 to 27 September 2024, at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, back to back with the twentieth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention.
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The twentieth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention will take place from 17 to 20 September 2024, at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, back-to-back with the twentieth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention. Pre-meeting...
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During the second part of its sixth meeting held in Geneva on 3-6 September 2024, the expert working group on the review of Annexes developed revised amendment proposals on Annex IV for consideration and possible adoption by the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to be held 28 Apri...
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On 3-6 September 2024, experts on the review of Annexes resume their sixth meeting in Geneva to finalize the amendments proposal on Annex IV to the Basel Convention on disposal operations.
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The Basel Convention Implementation and Compliance Committee convened its sixteenth meeting in Geneva on 23 and 24 June and from 29 June to 2 July 2024.
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Parties and observers to the Stockholm Convention are invited to submit by 1 August 2024 (extended deadline), comments on the draft updated guidance on best available techniques and best environmental practices for the management of sites contaminated with persistent organic pollutants. A form is av...
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On Tuesday 25 June 2024. Co-Chairs Lendita Dika (North Macedonia) and Judith Torres (Uruguay) welcomed over 360 participants to the meeting, encouraging them to engage actively and share insights to further strengthen the Basel Convention. The meeting is being held in Geneva, Switzerland from 25 to ...
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The Directors of the 23 Regional centres have gathered at the 13th Annual joint meeting to enhance cooperation and coordination between the regional centres under the Basel and Stockholm conventions. The meeting provides an opportunity to exchange experiences and enhance synergies in the delivery of...
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The Implementation and Compliance Committee set to kick off its sixteenth meeting on 23 June with ground-breaking dialogues with the Basel Convention regional centres and a range of intergovernmental partners.
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The secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and the Minamata Convention on Mercury are organizing an online information session on the contribution of the chemicals and waste conventions to Target 7 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), Thursday 18 April...
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