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News articles about POPs, related chemicals and the Stockholm Convention:

Analysis: Pesticides are creating a biodiversity crisis in Europe

Toxic levels of 'forever chemicals' are being found in breast milk. How harmful are they?

PFAS levels in rainwater have made it 'unsafe to drink' globally, even in remote areas: study

Apply for the 5th funding cycle of the Chemicals and Waste Management Programme by 12 August!

A total of 66 countries have already been approved to receive support in the first five rounds to facilitate the fulfilment of obligations towards the chemicals and waste related instruments.

Pierce Brosnan and his son, Paris Brosnan, launch video appeal to tackle plastic waste pollution

Legendary Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan and Paris Brosnan, a filmmaker and environmental activist, have joined forces with the BRS Conventions to draw attention to the need for plastic waste management. Their PSA video is part of the Plastic is Forever campaign.

BRS COPs conclude with major decisions on e-waste movement and ban of harmful chemicals affecting firefighters

Pierce Brosnan and Dominic Thiem salute Basel Convention’s work to foster the environmentally sound management of plastic waste..

UN Palais des Nations shines bright during the BRS COPs Plastics Forum

With the campaign slogan “Plastic is Forever, so it’s time to get clever about managing it!”, the BRS Conventions highlight the need to manage plastic waste in environmentally sound ways.

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Online briefings on the eighteenth meetings of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-18) and the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC-18)

The online briefings will provide an overview of the issues that will be considered by the eighteenth meetings of the CRC and POPRC, to be held respectively from 19 to 23 September 2022 and from 26 to 30 September 2022, in Rome, Italy.

Global environmental agenda advances as BRS COPs are held in Geneva to discuss chemicals and wastes management

More than 1500 registered participants representing the BRS Conventions reconvene in Geneva, Switzerland, from 6 to 17 June, for the first time in three years. Under the theme “Global Agreements for a Healthy Planet: Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste”, the BRS COPs will address the impact of hazardous chemicals and wastes on human health and the environment.

BRS COPs are reconvening in Geneva until 17 June!

The face-to-face segment of the Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs) picks up where the High-level Segment left off last week in Stockholm.

BRS COPs High-level Segment: a global event for a planet safe from chemicals and wastes

More than 100 ministers and other high-level representatives meet in Stockholm to discuss ways of addressing the triple planetary crisis of pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss, through the sound management of hazardous chemicals and wastes.

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