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Parties and others are invited to provide comments on 1st draft glossary of terms prepared by the small intersessional working group on legal clarity

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Dear friends and colleagues,

As presaged during the 2013 Conferences of the Parties, I will be retiring from UNEP effective the end of March, 2014. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all of you for the support you have given to me and the secretariat these past three years.

The UNEP Executive Director has issued a vacancy announcement  to recruit a new Executive Secretary.

Best regards,

Jim Willis

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Colombia’s Paula Caballero Gómez is recognized as having been instrumental in the early conceptualization and promotion of Sustainable Development Goals.

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Call for applications by Monday 10 February 2014.

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The accession of São Tomé and Príncipe raises the number of Parties to the Convention to 181.

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The Global workshop on 18 – 19 February 2014 is being organized with the support of BCRC-South Africa.

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The launch of the full scale in December 2013 was a result of several years of planning, awareness raising & capacity building in Kenya and across Africa.

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Call for applications by Tuesday 4 February 2014.

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Customs officials continue to demonstrate leadership in preventing and combating the illegal trafficking of hazardous wastes.

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Global initiative to promote the protection of human health and livelihood through the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes worldwide is accepting nominations by 31 December 2014.

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The Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions.

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Implementation and Compliance Committee invites parties and others to provide comments on guidance on inventories, the control system and illegal traffic take-back.

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The Secretariat has decreased its carbon footprint by 50% from 2010 to 2012, and takes active steps towards becoming climate neutral.

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At annual joint meeting Regional Centres of the Basel and Stockholm conventions exchange plans for evaluating performance and sustainability

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Launch of the WIPO Patent Landscape Report on e-Waste Recycling Technologies, International Environment House II, 12 December 2013

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Photographic exhibition, 2 to 14 December 2013 at Palais des Nations, Geneva

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Come and learn from two different USA perspectives, one from the private sector and the other one from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) on how rare trace materials, like gold, or bulky like plastics, can be recovered and recycled from E-Waste. This webinar will present an example of processes for material recovery and recycling complying with the PACE “Guideline”.

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This webinar will present a private sector experience in Asia on how rare trace materials, like gold, or bulky plastics, can be recovered and recycled from end-of-life computing equipment and other  E-wastes, as an example of processes for material recovery and recycling complying with the PACE “Guideline”.

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The final report has been published in the six official languages of the United Nations.

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A pilot training on chairing meetings of the Basel, Rotterdam & Stockholm conventions will be offered in Glion, Switzerland, from 3 to 5 March 2014

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To ease the burden of reporting, the Secretariat has launched the new Electronic Reporting System  of the Basel Convention. Beginning 7 November 2013, the new Electronic Reporting System enables Parties to submit their annual national reports online.

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The 6th physical meeting of the PACE Working Group was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 23 to 25 September 2013. The meeting was organized by the Basel Convention Regional Centre in South Africa.

The Working Group reviewed the status of activities under PACE, obtained reports from co-chairs of the six project groups on their priority activities, reviewed and approved the PACE budget, and discussed which short- and long-term role PACE should play in view of the outcomes of the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention in matters related to e-waste.

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