More than 1,300 representatives from more than 160 countries agree key decisions to keep work towards sound management of chemicals and waste on track.

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Read the official press release as more than 150 countries join the online segment of the 2021 meetings of the Conferences of Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, & Stockholm conventions.

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Officially registered participants are invited to join technical trials on 21 July and 22 July to become familiar with the use of the meeting platforms.

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Pre-session documents for the online segment of the Triple COPs, including the proposed interim programmes of work & proposed budgets for the conventions for 2022, now available.

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Accreditation process now open for correspondents seeking to attend the meetings of the Conferences of Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam & Stockholm conventions, (online segment) from 26 to 30 July 2021.

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With thanks to Norway and Switzerland for funding support, African and Eastern European countries come together online in May, to prepare for the online segment of the 2021 COPs.

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The report of the resumed session of the joint meeting of the COPs Bureaux, held online on 26 February 2021, is now available online.

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The BRS COP Bureaux have agreed at their resumed joint meeting on 26 February 2021 to hold the Basel Convention’s COP-15, the Rotterdam Convention’s COP-10 and the Stockholm Convention’s COP-10, back-to-back in two segments: an online segment in 2021 and a face-to-face segment in 2022.

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The online briefings will provide an overview of the main outcomes and decisions of the recent meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions that were held from 24 April to 5 May 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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The webinar sessions aim at providing parties, observers and other stakeholders with an overview of the decisions adopted at the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, held in Geneva, from 4 to 15 May 2015.

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The second week of the Triple COPs is underway as parties respond to calls, including from UNEP Chief Achim Steiner, for action on urgent waste and chemicals issues

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Use the interactive BRS App for keeping up with the debates and events

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FAO’s Elisabetta Tagliati answers your questions on the Rotterdam Convention and the relationships between pesticides, agriculture and environment.

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Find out all about Rotterdam Convention implementation and the role of FAO in the latest of our interview series marking the Countdown to the Triple COPs.

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The Government of Switzerland invites delegates of the meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to join a boat cruise on Lake Geneva on Sunday, 10 May 2015. Registration is required.

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Join Professor Oladele Osibanjo as he describes the main capacity constraints, and partnership opportunities, for solving waste and chemicals issues in Africa

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Suman Sharma answers your questions on How does Technical Assistance assist Parties implement the Chemicals and Waste Conventions?

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The online briefings aim at providing parties, observers and other stakeholders with an overview of the issues that will be discussed during the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, to be held in Geneva, from 4-15 May 2015.

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Training contributes to gender and regional diversity in conventions’ corps of highly qualified chairpersons

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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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The final report of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties is now available in all languages. Please visit the meeting documents page to access the report.

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Learn more about the actions of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention that was held in Cartagena, Colombia.

Presentation

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International conference adopts a package of strategic decisions on waste avoidance and management in the 21^st century

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Destroying large banks of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) together with persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

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This publication is an element of the E-waste Africa programme, which aims at enhancing the environmental governance of e-wastes and creating favourable social and economic conditions in the recycling sector in Africa.

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This week, there are a number of items on your agenda that will be crucial for determining the strategic future of this convention - in particular the New Strategic Framework and the Swiss-Indonesian Country-Led Initiative (CLI).

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Government representatives in Cartagena will investigate ways in which the Convention could help turn wastes into valuable resources...

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The COP 10 meeting presents a unique opportunity to present to the Rio+20 conference with a concrete example of how transformative environmental...

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The objective of the webinar is to enable Parties and observers to be fully prepared for the discussions and negotiations of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-10) to the Basel Convention.

Available slots: 21 September at 4 pm, 23 September at 10 am, 6 October at 10 am

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