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Adopted by Parties one year ago in May 2019, the Amendments become effective on 1 January 2021. Learn all you need to know by consulting the Secretariat’s FAQ, newly online.
Now online: Frequently-Asked-Questions on the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments
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The UNEP/TED-ed initiative has attracted millions of children worldwide since launching in April. Join the Plastics Quest, live from Monday 18 May, brought into your home by the BRS Secretariat and partners.
Children! Parents! Join Earth School for a different take on home-schooling!
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BRS Executive Secretary joins UNEP, WHO, UNEP and others in a webinar on 19 May to discuss necessary responses to increased medical waste in light of the COVID-19 emergency.
Sustainability after COVID-19: The medical waste response
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Download the Basel Convention’s guidance document on how to manage medical waste in the most sustainable manner.
COVID19: Factsheet on Environmentally Sound Management of Medical Waste available online
Download the Basel Convention’s guidance document on how to manage medical waste in the most sustainable manner.
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ESM Factsheet
April 2020
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The BRS Secretariat is proud to partner with UNEP on the new Earth School Adventures, launched on 22 April, bringing environmental education into the homes of millions of home-schooling children, including a component on plastics (from 13 May).
Exciting new learning platform launched for home-schooling children!
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Recording available of the BRS briefing of 30 April, which covered COVID19 impacts and responses, and arrangements for the forthcoming Basel Convention OEWG meeting in June, with thanks to the Geneva Environment Network.
Watch: BRS Executive Secretary and colleagues on COVID19 and the sound management of chemicals and waste
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The BRS Secretariat is pleased to announce, thanks to generous funding from Norway, the opening of the new Small Grant Programme on Plastic Waste, open to applications from Basel and Stockholm Convention regional centres until 15 July 2020.
New Small Grant Programme launched to improve plastic waste management at municipal, national and regional levels
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Now available online: Overview of concept notes for voluntary contributions for implementing the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions, as approved by COPs in 2019.
Opportunities published for supporting global work towards the sound management of chemicals & waste
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The Basel Convention’s COP-15, the Rotterdam Convention’s COP-10 and the Stockholm Convention’s COP-10 will be held back-to-back in Geneva, Switzerland, from 19 to 30 July 2021.
Save the date: Dates and venue for the 2021 BRS COPs
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Mr Rémi Nono Womdim, Deputy Director of the Plant Production and Protection Division of FAO, has been appointed as Executive Secretary (FAO) of the Rotterdam Convention, effective 15 February 2020.
New Executive Secretary (FAO) appointed for the Rotterdam Convention
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Photographs are invited from professionals, amateurs and children, and will be judged by a panel including a National Geographic photographer. Deadline for submission: 30 September 2020.
New Plastic Waste Photo Contest launched to raise awareness on plastic waste pollution
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BRS information platforms expanded to include new portal sharing publications, events and contacts from the network of regional centres, starting with the Basel and Stockholm Regional Centre for Francophone Africa in Dakar, Senegal, as the first new information source and publisher.
Regional Centre in Senegal is the first to operationalise automatic information exchange through the BRS Clearing House Mechanism
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The 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council addresses children’s rights to a healthy environment, as UN report shows that 25% of infant deaths are from preventable, environmental hazards.
85 million children engaged in hazardous labour affecting their health through exposure to toxic substances, says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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See Inger Andersen (UNEP), Rolph Payet (BRS), Malcom Johnson (ITU) and Maria Neira (WHO) talk about the newly-launched E-waste Massive Open Online Course.
UN agencies join forces to help meet the world’s growing electronic waste challenge: you can join in too!
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Two webinars open the updated and expanded Massive Open Online Course - or MOOC – on E-waste.
Join efforts to tackle the world’s growing E-waste problem
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