Waste Management
05 Feb 2013
This meeting is being organized by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in conjunction with its twenty-seventh session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC27/GMEF) to be held from 18-22 February 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. The objective of the Forum is to facilitate preparations of major groups and stakeholders towards the GC27/GMEF, which will hold ministerial-level consultations on emerging policy issues under the following themes: Implementing Rio+20: A strengthened...
28 Jan 2013
The Conference will adopt the Minamata Convention on Mercury and a final act that addresses: how to promote and prepare for the early implementation of the Convention; arrangements for the interim period between the signing of the instrument and its entry into force, including arrangements for financial and technical assistance during that period; and secretariat arrangements. A preparatory session will be held on 7-8 October, opening ceremonies on 9 October, and the full Conference on 10-11...
22 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
19 January 2013: Negotiations have completed on a new comprehensive global treaty on mercury. The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Prepare a Globally Legally Binding Instrument on Mercury (INC 5) completed its work on 19 January 2013, in Geneva, Switzerland.
To be known as the Minamata Convention on Mercury, in honor of a Japanese fishing village where serious health damage (now known as “Minamata disease”) occurred in the 1950s as the result of...
07 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 December 2012: The Compliance Assistance Programme of the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (ROAP) is completing a series of Montreal Protocol Enforcement Training Workshops to help customs and enforcement officers in 12 Pacific small island developing States (SIDS) prepare for their Protocol commitments involving hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). The national workshops, launched in July 2012, are due to be completed in January 2013.
The workshops...
07 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
18 December 2012: The Basel Convention Regional Center for Central America and Mexico (CRCB-CAM) will take the lead in drafting a Central American Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Strategy to tackle the growing e-waste problem in the eight member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA) (Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama).
The proposal responds to a June 2012 call by the Council of Ministers of the...
