International Intervensions

The urgency of addressing plastic pollution, which threatens ecosystems globally and exacerbates the triple planetary crisis of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. It highlights the UN Environment Assembly’s pivotal decision in 2022 to develop a binding international agreement to combat plastic pollution, signaling a potential shift towards comprehensive regulation....

The Inception Workshop on “Addressing Children’s Environmental Health with a particular focus on Lead Poisoning in Bangladesh” organized by ESDO and supported by UNICEF Bangladesh concluded successfully on April 3, 2024. The event aimed to significantly reduce lead exposure among children in Bangladesh through a multi-pronged approach, including community education,...

Dr. Shahriar Hossain, Secretary General of Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO participated as a Distinguished Speaker at the 7th Planetary Health Dialogue hosted by the Centre for Planetary Health Policy (CPHP). He shed light on the crucial topic of environmental justice in the context of chemical pollution. He emphasized the...

ESDO and GAIA are going to organize jointly a Side Event at the CoP28 titled “Mitigating Methane Emission Towards Environmental Justice” on 11 December 2023 at CoP 28 Bangladesh Pavilion: B2, Building 21, Dubai, UAE. This event examined the causes of methane emissions from the farm and municipal solid waste...

GAIA and ISWA jointly organized a side event titled “Mitigating Climate Change and Improving Public Health through Zero Waste Strategies” on 10 December 2023 at the Waste and Resources Pavilion of CoP28. ESDO’s secretary general Dr. Shahriar Hossain joined this event as a speaker and addressed plastic pollution as a...

On behalf of ESDO and IPEN, Siddika Sultana, Executive Director, ESDO has given a statement on the global plastic treaty INC-3. She stated,  “Plastic recycling is a false solution to beat plastic pollution. Since plastic products contain chemicals, recycling plastics means recycling these chemicals. Plastic recycling process discharges microplastics in...

The fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention (COP-5), was held in Geneva from 30 October to 3 November 2023. During the meeting, 23 significant decisions were made to keep protecting human health and the environment from the harmful effects of mercury. Dr. Shahriar Hossain,...

The Minamata Convention on Mercury, a global agreement to prevent exposure to mercury and its compounds for both human health and the environment, was established in 2013. Mercury is a naturally occurring element that may be released into the air and water by industrial operations, mining, deforestation, trash incineration, and...

The ICCM5 meeting is scheduled to take place in the Bonn World Conference Center from September 25–29, 2023. The Intersessional Process for Consideration of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Beyond 2020 (IP4.3), which is now taking place from September...

The fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) continued its second day of discussion in formal contact groups and working groups established by its Committee of the Whole (COW). Member States presented national statements in the UNEA-4 plenary in the afternoon. Delegates presented their national actions toward SCP, including,...

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 held on 14 April 2021, to organize COP-4 in two segments: a first segment was conducted online within the period...

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 by adding plastic to the Basel Convention, a treaty that controls the movement of hazardous waste from one country to...

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 concern to two or more of the Conventions, including international cooperation and coordination, financial resources, and program of work and...

The third meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG3) of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay from 2-4 April 2019. It will be preceded by regional meetings and a technical briefing on 1 April 2019. Executive Director of ESDO and Director of Asian...

The fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) took place from 11-15 March 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, at the UN Offices at Nairobi (UNON), organized on the theme of “Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production.” The conference attracted a record number of participants, with...