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Rotterdam Convention’s Chemical Review Committee held its 9th meeting in Rome from 22 to 24 October 2013, back to back with the joint meeting of the conventions’ scientific review committees
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BRS MEAS is the new photo gallery of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions on Flickr, the latest addition to the conventions’ panoply of social media services.
The BRS MEAS collection consists of more than 900 photographic images taken by the Secretariat and organized into 12 thema...
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Kumamoto, Japan, 10 October 2013 - Japan, a country which has come to epitomize mercury poisoning in modern times, today became one of the first countries to sign a historic new international convention to reduce emissions and releases of the toxic metal into air, land and water and to phase out man...
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Franz Perrez, Swiss Ambassador for the Environment, writes about synergies milestones and future cooperation between the three conventions.
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Up-to-date information on the status of ratifications merely a click away.
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The mobile app is expected to increase transparency and participation in Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm convention meetings. Available for Android and iPhone/iPads.
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UNEP and FAO team up to promote synergies between the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in two-week chemicals and waste meeting.
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GEF-funded projects in Philippines, Mexico, China, Tanzania, Kenya show positive impacts of projects to clean up toxic chemicals and waste.
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RECETOX and CETESB regional centres sign MOU at the closure of the Regional Fair at 2013 COPs.
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Interactive app adds sizzle to the 2013 COPs.
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Clayton Campanhola, Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam Convention, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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Bakary Kante, Director of the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC), United Nations Environment Programme.
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The Regional Fair Roundtable ‘Synergies through regional delivery’ examines barrier and opportunities to enhance delivery of services to parties at regional and national level.
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Geneva International Conference Centre, Room 3, Geneva, 27 April 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
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Presidents agreed to rotate chairing of various sessions of the ExCOP meetings, as well as simultaneous sessions of the ordinary meetings of the three COPs.
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In continuation of their synergies process, the three conventions that govern chemicals and hazardous waste at international level will convene in Geneva from 28 April to 10 May 2013.
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Staff members of the Secretariat have new standardized e-mail addresses.
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Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions to hold ‘sustainable synergies’ meetings aimed at solidifying collaboration among the three legally autonomous global agreements.
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Selection of branch chiefs to fill the technical assistance, convention operations and scientific support branches has been announced by the Secretariat.
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In cooperation with the authorities of the Canton of Geneva, the Swiss host country is organizing an excursion to the waste treatment centre of Cheneviers on Sunday, 5 May 2013.
Participants will travel from La Jonction by boat on the Rhône to the treatment centre. A morning excursion (...
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