Program: International governance of chemicals and wastes

Comprises activities and projects associated with:

Follow-up and advocacy with binding regimes on chemicals and their hazardous waste: Minamata Convention on Mercury, Stockholm Convention on POPs – persistent organic pollutants, Basel and Rotterdam Conventions (the last three are “chemical” conventions, whose Conferences of the Parties – CoPs – are held together).

• Follow-up and advocacy with binding regimes on chemicals and their hazardous waste: Minamata Convention on Mercury, Stockholm Convention on POPs – persistent organic pollutants, Basel and Rotterdam Conventions (the last three are “chemical” conventions, whose Conferences of the Parties – CoPs – are held together).
• Follow-up and international advocacy with voluntary processes (no legal binding – soft Law): SAICM and Agenda 2030.
• Participation and advocacy related to the multilateral negotiation, started in 2022, of a new global treaty on plastic pollution.