It's the 3rd meeting for the small intersessional working group in Geneva to develop & update technical guidelines on waste batteries, following the #BRSCOPs 2025 mandate. This is a crucial step to ensuring a safer, more sustainable handling of battery waste worldwide. #circulareconomy.
At the 2025 #BRSCOPs, the secretariat held constructive bilateral meetings with representatives from 🇧🇩🇫🇮🇬🇹🇰🇿🇰🇬🇲🇷🇵🇭🇸🇩🇺🇦 and other Parties and non-Parties to the #MinamataConvention, reaffirming our shared commitment to a healthier planet.
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🌍 Thank you to Ambassador José Valencia & Ambassador Matthew Wilson, along with experts from the World Customs Organization, The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions & all esteemed guests for joining us at the #BRSCOPs side event on tackling #plasticpollution! 🌍
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🌍 Thank you to Ambassador José Valencia & Ambassador Matthew Wilson, along with experts from the World Customs Organization, The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions & all esteemed guests for joining us at the #BRSCOPs side event on tackling #plasticpollution! 🌍
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A #BRSCOPs side event highlighted the transformative potential of digital platforms like InforMEA.
Executive Secretary Monika Stankiewicz: "To tackle environmental challenges effectively we need to also address economic & social dimensions".
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Toks Akinseye, UK
Temarama Anguna-Kamana, Cook Islands
Basel Convention COP17 President Anita Sowińska gaveling the adoption of the decision on plastic waste
Stockholm Convention COP12 President Maya Berci
Want to dig deeper into Thursday's talks in Geneva for the #BRSCOPs2025?
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At #BRSCOPs, @thegef.bsky.social hosted the first GEF-MEA Exchange.
GEF CEO Carlos Manuel Rodriguez: "Only way forward is together".
#MinamataConvention Exec Sec Monika Stankiewicz: "This dialogue is vital & I hope it continues at #MinamataCOP6".
Full story: minamataconvention.org/en/news/mult...
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Are you following the latest discussions and news from #BRSCOPs?
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This includes: Anna Odur, Pamela Miller, Sounkoura Adetonah, Fernando Bejarano, Lia Esquillo, Elham Refat, Semia Gharbi, Maimouna Ndye, Rafael Eudes, and Fredrick Otieno.
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Participants celebrating the listing of carbosulfan in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention
Gaël De Rotalier, EU, and Michel Tschirren, Switzerland
From L-R: David Ogden, Deputy Executive Secretary, BRS Conventions; Basel Convention COP17 President Anita Sowińska; Marylene Beau, BRS Conventions Secretariat; Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary, BRS Conventions; and Juliette Kohler, BRS Conventions Secretariat
After eight years, the #RotterdamConvention listed carbosulfan (a #pesticide) at #BRSCOPs
The fate of the other nine chemicals proposed for listing is unclear, as parties grapple with broader questions of the Rotterdam Convention's effectiveness
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At a #BRSCOPs high-level event, our Exec Sec welcomed the increasing number of countries "integrating chemical pollution targets into their national biodiversity strategies & action plans in line with #GBF. This opens up new opportunities to implement environmental conventions in a synergistic way".
Having reviewed proposals to list three pesticides under the #RotterdamConvention, delegates at #BRSCOPs could not agree to list any
That includes chlorpyrifos—a pesticide listed last week by Stockholm Convention as a persistent organic pollutant
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#chemicals
We need sustainable solutions to manage chemicals better, support circularity and reduce waste.
That was the message from the #BRSCOPs High-Level Segment.
More from @brsconventions.bsky.social as countries continue work to protect human health and the environment: www.brsmeas.org/MediaHub/New...
Mercury and methyl bromide might be better regulated by other treaties, according to some #BRSCOPs delegates
Thus, these substances might not be added the list of chemicals subject to the Rotterdam Convention’s prior informed consent procedure
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#BRSCOPs2025
Introducing the work of the International #ZeroWaste City Network, launched at the 2022 #BRSCOPs & currently counting 61 members from 21 countries, representatives of #BCRC Asia Pacific & BCRC #Argentina highlight success stories in various public sector initiatives.
As I leave #BRSCOPs, feeling very proud and grateful for the brilliant @brsconventions.bsky.social team for their hard work on this important set of meetings.
As we continue to make the invisible, visible, together we can protect human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals and waste.
Astrid Schomaker (CBD) and Rolph Payet (BRS)
At the High-Level Segment of #BRSCOPs there was convergence on the need to leverage sustainable solutions under all Multilateral Environmental Agreements, including the Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF, to address the crisis afflicting planet and people.
We are in this together.
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"It is up to you as Basel Convention parties to decide how the BC should apply to ships already considered as hazardous waste."
Thank you for joining the #BRSCOPs side event on focusing on ending the illicit trade of end-of-life ships!
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Quote graphic on a blue background with illustrations of plastic items at the bottom. The quote reads: “We need to rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and refill – with a real focus on plastic that ends up in the environment, particularly single-use and short-lived plastics.” — Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director.
As momentum builds toward the second part of #INC5 this August in Geneva, UNEP Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social addressed a #BRSCOPs event, underscored the importance of agreeing on a #PlasticsTreaty to #BeatPlasticPollution.
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At #BRSCOPs met with Dr. Nisreen Tamimi, Environment Quality Authority Chairperson of the State of Palestine.
Last year @unep.org released a preliminary assessment on the environmental impacts of the war in Gaza, showing that soil, water & air pollution are risking human health & long-term recovery
Pleased to meet Jacques Assahore Konana, Côte d’Ivoire Environment and Ecological Transition Minister, at #BRSCOPs
Deeply appreciate Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 leadership as Abidjan Convention hosts, work that supports regional efforts to prevent, reduce and control marine environment pollution across Africa.
Read the official #BRSCOPs interventions compiled by IPEN from Dr. Samarys Seguinot Medina, Tadesse Amera, Gilbert Kuepouo, Dr. Leslie Adogame, Pamela Miller, Sonia Buftheim, Yuyun Ismawati, Gohar Khojayan, Piyush Mohapatra, Aileen Lucero, Ram Charitra Sah, and Mari Carcamo: ipen.org/site/interve...
A pleasure to see my old colleague and friend Juergen Voegele, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, at #BRSCOPs.
We at @unep.org enjoy a close relationship with the World Bank and hope to see strong WB support and investments needed to underpin @brsconventions.bsky.social work.
In the margins of #BRSCOPs, Musonda Mumba, Secretary General @ramsarconv.bsky.social and I agreed on the need for alignment among Multilateral Environmental Agreements to enable synergistic implementation. Grateful for the support to Parties in delivering on the Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF.
Day 4 at #BRSCOPs2025
"It's about the precedent." Delegates debated whether to allow a persistent organic pollutant elimination listing to be re-opened to accommodate the aircraft manufacturing industry.
It's the first time such a request has been made.
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A pleasure to meet Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister of Tourism and Environment for the Republic of Congo at #BRSCOPs.
The Republic of Congo is incredibly rich with biodiversity. @unep.org looks forward to continuing our work with the Republic of Congo to help protect this vital nature.
