Integrating chemicals and waste management into biodiversity conservation – The Power of synergies

Name: Integrating chemicals and waste management into biodiversity conservation – The Power of synergies
Start: 2025-05-02
End: 2025-05-02
Location: Switzerland

2 May 2025

Online and in Geneva, 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm CEST, Switzerland

Overview

Agenda

Date: Thursday, 2 May 2025

Time: 1.15pm- 2.45 pm CEST

Where: Hybrid (Online and in person, Room C)

This is an official side event at the 2025 BRS COPs that aims to strengthen implementation of global environmental commitments through coherent and synergistic implementation of MEAs, the KMGBF and the Global Framework on Chemicals.

This side event will also highlight the increasing efficiency and effectiveness in implementation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and frameworks through increased cooperation and the identification of potential synergies.

Among others, the side event intends to contribute to this year theme “Make Visible the Invisible: sound management of chemicals and wastes” through presenting the recent developments within the international agreements and frameworks on the interlinkages and contributions among the two clusters

For more information, please contact

Haddy Guisse, Programme Management Officer Law Division, UNEP

Tentative Programme

Opening: Ms. Inger Andersen UNEP Executive Director & UN Under-Secretary-General (

High-level Panel: Moderator: Jacqueline Alvarez Chief of Branch, Chemicals and Health Branch, Industry and Economy Division, UNEP

Ms. Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Mr. Rolph Payet Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions
Ms. Monika Stankiewicz, Executive Secretary, The Minamata Convention on Mercury
Ms. Musonda Mumba, Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar Convention
Minister of Environment OR Head of Delegation/Sweden- tbc
Minister of Environment Nigeria

Closing Ms. Kay Williams, Head of the Global Framework on Chemicals Secretariat, Industry and Economy Directorate

Questions and Answers & Closing

Did you know?

Each year one third of global food production is lost or wasted.

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