Countries: Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia and South Africa. Highlights: The Regional Mercury Initial Assessment Project (MIA) was undertaken in Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, and Eswatini through UN Environment (Implementing Agency) and the Africa Inst ...

The Africa Institute in partnership with the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) (a Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)) held a wo ...

The BRS COPs Plastics Forum spotlights the need to manage plastic waste in environmentally sound ways. How long is forever? More than a lifetime? The life cycle of plastic is measured in hundreds of years. Plastic bottles, for example, take up t ...

The Secretariat is making available an overview of concept notes for voluntary contributions to the Technical Cooperation Trust Fund of the Basel Convention (BD) and the Special Voluntary Trust Funds of the Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (R ...

Prague, Czech Republic from 12 December to 14 December 2018 Venue: Hotel NH Pragye City Highlights: In its decision SC-8/3, the Conference of the Parties decided to undertake, at its ninth meeting, a review of progress towards the elimination of ...

Overview The fourteenth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention was held from 11 to 13 September 2018 at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, back-to-back with the fourteenth meeting of the Persistent Organic Polluta ...

Venue: Americas Tower Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina Highlights: At its second meeting, the expert working group on the review of Annexes (RA) is expected to continue its work on the review of Annex IV and related aspects of Annex IX (B1110), pu ...

Objectives The objectives of this webinar are to provide an overview of the electronic reporting system of the Basel Convention and enhance understanding of the reporting obligations under the Basel Convention. It is primarily intended for newly ...

The BRS Secretariat organised an informal brainstorming session of Stockholm Convention implementing agencies and other partners in Geneva, 17 November 2019, to identify cooperative strategies for maximising impact and boosting implementation. W ...

African Public Service Governance: Another curse? Dr. K. Khalema; the Africa Institute Information Management Center In our work as Intergovernmental organization tasked with capacity building in the area of hazardous waste and chemicals managem ...