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17th Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-17)
After a meeting dominated by questions about what constitutes a risk evaluation under the Rotterdam Convention, the Committee decided that two of the four chemicals considered met the criteria for listing banned or severely restricted chemicals. The others will be considered at the next meeting in 2022.
Climate Resilience through the Right to Food: Perspectives on the UN Food Systems Summit
In the first of a two-part series, stakeholders discussed the right to food as an entry point for transforming current unequal and unsustainable development trends.
2021 CCICED Annual General Meeting
Experts from around the world convened to discuss research findings and recommendations towards China’s environment and development policies and practices, including its domestic policies, the Belt and Road Initiative, and contributions to global environmental governance processes.
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020
As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the IUCN Congress successfully highlighted the planet's dual existential crises: climate change and biodiversity collapse. Members adopted the Marseille Manifesto, also reflective of the role and rights of indigenous peoples in conservation.
Ministerial Conference on Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution
Many countries called for an ambitious, legally binding agreement on plastics, emphasizing the urgency of coordinated global action to address the entire lifecycle of plastics, from production to disposal.
3rd Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Countries have until 15 October 2021 to express support for the Ministerial statement that emerged from last week's high-level meeting.
54th Session of the IPCC (IPCC-54) and 14th Session of the Working Group I (WG I-14)
The first Working Group contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report providing a comprehensive assessment of the physical science underpinning past, present and future climate change.
2021 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)
Parties and stakeholders to the three global hazardous chemicals and wastes conventions convened online to deal with urgent operational and substantive work including election of officers, the programmes of work and budgets for all three conventions, and a decision regarding the Stockholm Convention’s financial mechanism.
2nd Part of the 43rd Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (OEWG 43)
Parties to the Montreal Protocol tackled technical work on two issues that are crucial to efforts to repair and protect the ozone layer: the unexpected increase in emissions of trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11) and developments related to energy-efficient and low-global-warming-potential technologies.