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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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The bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions met at a joint meeting in Geneva on 5 November 2024 and agreed to the tentative schedule of work for the 2025 meetings of the Conferences of the Parties
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The bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions will discuss the organization of work for their upcoming 2025 COPs at a joint meeting in Geneva on 5 and 6 November 2024.
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The Stockholm Convention Expert group on DDT will focus on finalizing the assessment report on the continued need for DDT for disease vector control and conclusions and recommendations to be submitted for consideration by the next meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention ...
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The recommendations from the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee for amending Annexes A,B and C to the Stockholm Convention to be considered by the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties have been circulated to Parties.
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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 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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