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2026 CCICED Annual General Meeting
China’s cross-cutting research on environment and development, which shapes its national policies toward an ecological civilization, as well as international cooperation in a world of interconnected environmental and development challenges will take center stage in the deliberations. Discussions will focus on innovation in global environmental governance; inclusive energy transition; sustainable production and consumption systems; and national green governance.
22nd Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention (POPRC-22)
A government nominates a chemical when it is concerned that the substance behaves like a persistent organic pollutant (POP), meaning the substance persists in the environment, travels long distances, builds up in living tissue, and causes harm. As the world grapples with the many problems posed by plastics, there are questions if some chemicals used in plastics have these POP characteristics.
22nd Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-22)
The Chemical Review Committee is scheduled to review up to 22 new notifications covering eight candidate chemicals. Seven of those eight chemicals are pesticides: atrazine, azinphos-ethyl, endrin, mephosfolan, methomyl, phosphamidon, and prothoate. Only one, lead chromates, is an industrial chemical.
Kunming Dialogue
The Kunming Dialogue was an informal, multi-stakeholder technical dialogue among Parties, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, women, youth, and other stakeholders. The Dialogue collected inputs related to the global review of implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
17th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 17)
Negotiators at UNCCD COP 17 considered a wide array of decisions on enhancing efforts to address desertification, land degradation and drought.
28th Meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 28) and 7th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 7)
Subsidiary bodies of the Convention on Biological Diversity considered findings of the global midterm review of the Global Biodiversity Framework and gave advice and recommendations to inform negotiations at COP 17 in Armenia.
Autorité internationale des fonds marins, 2ᵉ Partie de la 31ᵉ session
L’Autorité internationale des fonds marins poursuivra ses efforts pour trouver un équilibre entre les pressions pour accélérer ou au contraire retarder les activités d’exploitation minière en eaux profondes dans les zones situées au-delà des limites de la juridiction nationale.