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Basel Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

BRS NEWSLETTER

Assisting parties to protect human health and the environment

January/February 2020 - No. 28
Welcome

MAKING THE INVISIBLE, VISIBLE

Dear Readers,

This first edition of the BRS Newsletter of the new decade brings you the launch of a new online course on E-waste; a new video on the Rotterdam Convention’s Chemical Review Committee; a new Party to the Stockholm Convention; a new web portal for sharing the information from the BRS regional Centres worldwide; and the forthcoming 1st meeting of the new UN Basel Convention Plastic Waste Partnership, next month in the Seychelles. New Year: New Decade: New efforts towards a clean planet, healthy people!

 

News
UN agencies join forces to help meet the world’s growing electronic waste challenge: you can join in too!

UN agencies join forces to help meet the world’s growing electronic waste challenge: you can join in too!

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.
New Rotterdam Convention video shows how science underpins decision-making on chemicals

New Rotterdam Convention video shows how science underpins decision-making on chemicals

Efforts towards sound management are backed up by science, nowhere more so than in the work of the Chemical Review Committee, as highlighted in this new short film.
Accession of Equatorial Guinea takes the number of Parties to the Stockholm Convention to 184

Accession of Equatorial Guinea takes the number of Parties to the Stockholm Convention to 184

The Convention will enter into force for Equatorial Guinea on 23 March 2020.
To help rid the world of Persistent Organic Pollutants or POPs, Pakistan updates its national plan for implementing the Stockholm Convention

To help rid the world of Persistent Organic Pollutants or POPs, Pakistan updates its national plan for implementing the Stockholm Convention

Addressing amendments made at COPs 4, 5, and 6, Pakistan has transmitted its updated National Implementation Plan.
Panama updates its national plan for implementing the Stockholm Convention

Panama updates its national plan for implementing the Stockholm Convention

To help rid the world of persistent organic pollutants or POPs, Panama has transmitted an updated implementation plan covering amendments made at COPs 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9.
85 million children engaged in hazardous labour affecting their health through exposure to toxic substances, says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

85 million children engaged in hazardous labour affecting their health through exposure to toxic substances, says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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.
All three Final Reports of the 2019 Triple COPs now available

All three Final Reports of the 2019 Triple COPs now available

Final Reports of the meetings of the Conferences of Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions are now online in all 6 UN languages.
BRS Secretariat supports the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

BRS Secretariat supports the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
BRS Secretariat staff recognised by the United Nations for long service

BRS Secretariat staff recognised by the United Nations for long service

Eight BRS staff are awarded UN Long Service Awards, ranging from 10 to 25 years, at a ceremony in Geneva.

 

Technical Assistance
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Forthcoming meeting
First meeting of the new UN Plastic Waste Partnership takes place in the Seychelles

First meeting of the new UN Plastic Waste Partnership takes place in the Seychelles

Less than a year after its establishment, the new Plastic Waste Partnership of the Basel Convention meets for the first time at Beau Vallon, the Seychelles, from 2 to 5 March 2020.
Preparations in full swing for the June meeting of the Basel Convention’s OEWG

Preparations in full swing for the June meeting of the Basel Convention’s OEWG

The 12th meeting of the Basel Convention’s Open-Ended Working Group will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 22 to 25 June 2020, back-to-back with the 14th meeting of the Implementation and Compliance Committee and the meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention.

 

Emerging issues
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an independent intergovernmental body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Customs administrations

The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an independent intergovernmental body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Customs administrations

BRS Executive Secretary meets Director General, Kunio Mikuriya, after giving keynote address at the WCO Enforcement Committee meeting, in Brussels.

 

Synergies in the spotlight
Regional Centre in Senegal is the first to operationalise automatic information exchange through the BRS Clearing House Mechanism

Regional Centre in Senegal is the first to operationalise automatic information exchange through the BRS Clearing House Mechanism

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.

 
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