Stockholm Convention
19 Mar 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 March 2013: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has completed a three-day Expanded Capacity Workshop (ECW) for the West African Sahel, bringing together focal points from the GEF, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
Representatives from civil society, the GEF Secretariat, and the GEF Agencies, also...
19 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 November 2012: The 43rd Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council adopted a Work Program that amounts to US$174 million and aims to benefit 63 countries.
The Council convened in Washington, DC, US, from 13-15 November 2012, at International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters. Representatives of governments, international organizations and civil society organizations (CSOs) attended the three-day meeting, which also included the 13th meeting of the Council for the Least Developed...
23 Oct 2012
The ninth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC 9) will review chlorinated naphthalenes, hexachlorobutadiene, hexabromocyclododecane, and pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters, as well as discuss other technical work such as the impact of climate change on the POPRC’s work and common issues in applying Annex E criteria. A joint meeting with the Rotterdam Convention’s Chemical Review Committee (CRC) may be held on 19 October 2013, if approved by the joint...
12 Jun 2012
The ordinary and extraordinary meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions will convene back-to-back from 29 April to 10 May 2013, in Geneva, Switzerland. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/coordinated-ordinary-and-extraordinary-meetings-of-the-conferences-of-the-parties-to-the-basel-rotterdam-and-stockholm-conventions/ ]
23 Jan 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
December 2011: The Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, Jim Willis, has released a proposal for the organization of the secretariats of the three conventions, as requested by the three Conferences of the Parties in their decisions on joint managerial functions.
Proposed changes include a shift from the current programmatic structure, which consists of three separate secretariats dedicated to each respective Convention and a joint convention services group, to a...
