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21st Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention (POPRC-21)
Several issues highlighted the growing challenge of eliminating persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from complex global supply chains. With only one draft risk profile on the agenda, participants also focused on the need for exemptions and how best to collect information on complex chemical groups.
ENERGYNOW: SDG7 Action Forum 2025
The fourth annual ENERGYNOW: SDG7 Action Forum served as an important platform to review progress, sustain momentum, and drive ambitious action, particularly in the lead-up to the third review of SDG7.
Climate Summit 2025
Parties announced updated national targets for climate action, reaffirmed their support for multilateralism and science, and demanded immediate action to prevent the irreversible damage resulting from a rapidly heating planet.
21st Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-21)
The Committee reviewed 35 notifications of final regulatory action related to 18 pesticides and three proposals for severely hazardous pesticide formulations (SHPFs). But they found that many of the notifications and all of the SHPF proposals did not meet the criteria set out in the Convention.
SDG Moment 2025
The SDG Moment 2025 united Heads of State and Government around their commitments to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves
Delegates underlined their main success of the last decade: enhancing the quality of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, a catalogue of internationally designated protected areas that act as “living laboratories” for testing novel approaches to advance biodiversity and development agenda. They also highlighted that future work must focus on scaling up impact.
6th Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific
Delegates from Asia Pacific showed “strong convergence” across some key environmental issues they intend to raise in December at the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly—the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment.
2nd Session of the Preparatory Commission for the Entry into Force of the BBNJ Agreement and the Convening of the 1st Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Agreement
The Preparatory Commission deliberated on governance issues, operation of the Clearing-House Mechanism, and financial rules, resources, and the financial mechanism to prepare for the imminent entry into force of the High Seas Treaty (BBNJ Agreement).
2nd Part of the 5th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment (INC-5.2)
Many hoped this meeting would lead to the adoption of a new treaty to end plastic pollution but, try as they might, delegates were unable to reach consensus and left Geneva amid uncertainty as to what the next steps might be going forward.