A consultant is sought, with a deadline of 26 August 2020, to work with the Secretariat’s Scientific and Technical Assistance Branch on chemicals and waste management during public health emergencies, conflicts and disasters.
With thanks to Norway and Switzerland for funding support, African and Eastern European countries come together online in May, to prepare for the online segment of the 2021 COPs.
The report of the resumed session of the joint meeting of the COPs Bureaux, held online on 26 February 2021, is now available online.
Pre-session documents for the online segment of the Triple COPs, including the proposed interim programmes of work & proposed budgets for the conventions for 2022, now available.
Download the two new guidance manuals, produced together with FAO’s Child Labour in Agriculture Prevention Team.
The UNEP Special Programme, open until August 2021, supports governments to implement the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions.
Agriculture is among the three most hazardous sectors to work in at any age in terms of work-related illness, accidents and fatalities. Pesticide exposure represents one of most serious risks to the health of workers and their families in rural areas. Individuals or groups are not equally exposed to the risks of pesticides, not only for biological but also for social and economic reasons.
The overall objectives of the webinars are to raise awareness of the Rotterdam Convention and the status of implementation in the Asian region, to enhance capacities of Designated National Authorities (DNAs) in effectively implementing the Convention. It also seeks to strengthen collaboration between DNAs at national and regional level.