Expert on plastic waste sought to support Technical Assistance projects of the Basel Convention.
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To help rid the world of persistent organic pollutants or POPs, Norway has transmitted its updated National Implementation Plan addressing amendments made at COP-8 & COP-9.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation and following consultations with POPRC members, the Bureau of the Committee decided to postpone the POPRC-17 meeting to January 2022.
New joint report by the BRS and Minamata conventions secretariats released to mark World Environment Day.
The latest round of regional monitoring reports, which have greater data and geographical coverage than before, and which again confirm decreasing levels of certain POPs worldwide, are now online.
Key online meeting of PWP pushes ahead actions to implement the plastic waste amendments and promote environmentally sound management of plastic waste globally.
In accordance with the workplan adopted at POPRC-16, Parties & observers are invited to review and provide comments on these drafts and related additional information, by 15 June 2021.
This webinar will provide an overview of the questionnaire for reporting on the production and use of DDT and other information relevant to the evaluation of the continued need of DDT for disease vector control as set out in Annex II to decision SC-3/2 of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. The information to be provided by this questionnaire are for the three-year period from 2018 to 2020. Presentations by the BRS Secretariat, UNEP and Government Party representatives will provide an opportunity to discuss issues surrounding DDT reporting under the Stockholm Convention.