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IISD/ENB Summary Meeting Reports

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Topics

  • Environmental Governance
  • Chemicals and Waste

MEAs

  • ITTA
  • Minamata Convention on Mercury
  • SAICM

Keywords

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2023

59th Session of the International Tropical Timber Council

The Council adopted five decisions, including: to determine by 1 June 2024 on extending the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 to 2029; projects for sustainable forest management and related objectives; its budget and work programme for 2024-25; and a four-year

MEAs:
International Tropical Timber Agreement
Keywords:
International Tropical Timber Organization, Sustainable Forest Management, International Tropical Timber Council, International Tropical Timber Agreement
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2023

5th International Conference on Chemicals Management and Resumed 4th Meeting of the Intersessional Process for Considering SAICM and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Beyond 2020

At the end of a long week of negotiations, delegates adopted the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste, along with 12 resolutions and a High-level Declaration to ensure chemicals are managed

MEAs:
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
Topics:
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Resolution, Wastes, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Capacity building, Implementation, Open-ended Working Group
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2019

3rd Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3)

The third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury focused on achieving the smooth functioning of an international treaty body as well as substantive and technical issues aimed at fostering action to address

MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
African Group of Negotiators, Meetings, Wastes, Subsidiary body, European Union, Capacity building, United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organization, Compliance Committee, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Technology Transfer, World Health Organization, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Global Environment Facility, Central and Eastern Europe, Memorandum of Understanding, Group of Western European and Other States, Small Island Developing States, Open-ended Working Group, Financial rules
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2017

1st Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1)

MEAs:
Minamata Convention on Mercury
Topics:
Environmental Governance,
Chemicals and Waste
Keywords:
Global Environment Facility, Meetings, Wastes, Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, Financial rules, Capacity building, Memorandum of Understanding, European Union, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Non-Party, African Group of Negotiators, Subsidiary body, United Nations Environment Programme, Basel Convention Regional Centres, Open-ended Working Group, Best available technique, Compliance Committee, Central and Eastern Europe, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Conference Room Paper