Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention

Geneva, Switzerland, from 28 April to 9 May 2025

Venue: Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG), 17 rue de Varembé, Geneva, Switzerland

Highlights: The twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP-12) will be held in Geneva from 28 April to 9 May 2025 back-to-back with the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-17) and the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP-12). The meetings will include a high-level segment on the afternoon of Wednesday, 30 April 2025 and the morning of Thursday, 1 May 2025. Preparatory meetings will be held on 27 April 2025.

The theme of the meetings and the high-level segment will be “Make visible the invisible: sound management of chemicals and wastes”.

The provisional agendas for the meetings and the tentative schedule, as approved by the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties, are available in the “Meeting documents” section below.

Working languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Meeting documents

  • Working documents
  • Information documents