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The schedule of side events during the 2025 BRS COPs is now available!
Discover the inspiring topics that will be explored this year to Make Visible the Invisible in the environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste, and join the discussions!
Thought Starter for the HLS of the 2025 BRS COPs now available in all UN languages!
The Thought Starter document containing background information on the theme of the high-level segment and guiding questions to facilitate the ministerial roundtable discussions and the interactive panel discussions is now available in the six UN languages.
Last chance to pre-register for the BRS COPs
The online registration system for the 2025 BRS COPs will close on 20 April 2025. Register now!
Eastern Europe region gears up for the 2025 BRS COPs with key preparatory meeting in Geneva
Preparations intensify for the BRS COPs with the regional preparatory meeting for the Eastern Europea region
GRULAC representatives met in Port-of-Spain to discuss preparations for the 2025 BRS COPs
Representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean met in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 18 to 20 March 2025 in preparation for the upcoming meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
Regional preparations for the 2025 BRS COPs kicked started by the African region in Lusaka
Representatives from Africa met in Lusaka, Zambia from 18 to 20 March 2025 in preparation for the upcoming meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions.
2025 BRS COPs meeting documents available
All meeting documents for the 2025 BRS COPs are now available in the 6 UN languages.
In preparation for the 2025 BRS COPs potential chairs trained!
Two training sessions of potential chairs for meetings of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions were held in Geneva from 3 to 7 February 2025.
BRS Highlights
 
Third call to submit pilot project proposals under the PWP is now open!
The third call to submit proposals for pilot projects under the Plastic Waste Partnership is now open, with a submission deadline of 30 April 2025. Project proposals can receive funding ranging from USD 50,000 to USD 500,000.
Proposed budgets for the biennium 2026-2027 now available
The proposed programmes of work and budgets for the biennium 2026-2027 to be considered by the 2025 BRS COPs are now available.
E-waste Amendments to the Basel Convention became effective on 1 January 2025
On 1 January 2025 the E-Waste amendments to the Basel Convention became effective, thus making all transboundary movements of e-wastes, whether hazardous or not, subject to the prior informed consent (PIC) procedure.
BRS Highlights 2024
The BRS Secretariat is proud to share with you some of the key highlights in the year of 2024.
Register now for the 2025 BRS COPs
The online registration system for the meetings is now available.
The Global Environment Facility approves landmark USD 206.8 million programme to eliminate PCBs by 2028
The GEF Council has approved a groundbreaking global programme dedicated to the elimination PCBs. This ambitious initiative combines USD 43.8 million in GEF grant funding with USD 163 million in partner co-financing and represents a major milestone towards meeting the Stockholm Convention’s 2...
Invitation letters to the 2025 BRS COPs have been sent out
The invitation letters for the 2025 meetings of the conferences of the Parties, as well as the high-level segment have been sent out to Parties. Information is available on the 2025 COPs webpages.
Join us in celebrating International Mountain Day
On International Mountain Day, we celebrate the vital role mountains play in our lives and renew our commitment to protecting these precious ecosystems. Over the past year, we have made progress in tackling plastics waste in mountain areas in the context of our project "plastic waste in the remote a...
Experts gather to advance the work on the electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents of the Basel Convention
The second meeting of the small intersessional working group on the on the electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents of the Basel Convention is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, 3 – 4 December 2024. The outcomes of the meeting will be submitted for consideration by CO...
Applications for requesting exhibition booths for the “Make Visible the Invisible Fair” during the 2025 BRS COPs are now open!
The Fair is an interactive event that will be held from 30 April to 2 May 2025, at the Geneva International Conference Centre and will focus on the theme selected for the 2025 meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the three conventions “Make Visible the Invisible: sound management of c...
Host a side event during the forthcoming meetings of the conferences of the Parties in 2025!
Applications are now open to host a side event at the meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions from 28 April to 9 May 2025. Don’t miss out, apply online now!
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