The fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-4) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury will convene online to address time-sensitive items to ensure that the Minimata Convention continues to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury…

With seven chemicals on its unusually heavy agenda, the seventeenth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-17) to the Rotterdam Convention convened virtually to review notifications of final regulatory action on these substances.

Amid the ongoing disruption of the pandemic, parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions divided scheduled meetings of their Conferences of the Parties into two segments.