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20th Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention (POPRC-20)
The Committee has a varied and wide-ranging agenda to evaluate long lived toxic chemicals that adversely affect human health and the environment around the world.
Summit of the Future
World leaders and stakeholders will meet in New York for a "once in a generation" summit on how to restructure the multilateral system to better tackle some of the greatest global challenges of our time.
20th Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-20)
The Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention has 33 notifications to review—nearly all pesticides—at a time when there are lively debates on the effectiveness of the Rotterdam Convention.
12th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System
Delegates are expected to hold text-based negotiations around three hotspot issues key to enhancing the Multilateral System (MLS) of access and benefit-sharing of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
3rd Berlin Forum on Chemicals and Sustainability
The Forum will let stakeholders evaluate progress on the Global Framework on Chemicals' objectives and targets one year after its adoption.
2nd Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources
The outcome of the week’s deliberations is a heavily-bracketed recommendation to the Conference of the Parties, including options on: monetary contributions by digital sequence information (DSI) users to the global fund; the methodology and criteria for funding allocation; and data governance.
Exploring Environmental, Economic, and Legal Aspects of Deep-sea Mining
This event was organized under Oceans20, an initiative of the Brazilian presidency of the G20, scientists and policymakers focused on scientific, environmental, economic, and legal aspects of deep-sea mining.
61st Session of the IPCC (IPCC-61)
Delegates agreed on some of the critical building blocks for the seventh assessment cycle, including the outlines for a Special Report on Cities and Climate Change and a methodological report on short-lived climate forcers. They could not agree on the Strategic Planning Schedule for the cycle.