Minamata COP-4 on Mercury: From Indonesia to the World
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation, the Bureau of the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury decided, at its fifth meeting…
UN Decides to Control Global Plastic Waste Dumping
UN meeting gives countries the right to refuse unrecyclable, polluting plastics MAY 10, 2019 Geneva, Switzerland —Today, 187 countries took a major step forward in curbing the plastic waste crisis…
2019 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
On Tuesday, delegates to the 2019 meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COP) to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions devoted most of the day to issues of…