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I S SUE 1 , N O V EM B E R 2 02 2 BRS HIGHLIGHTS The monthly newsletter of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions S U B SC R I B E Greetings from Geneva! The BRS Conventions newsletter returns after a hiatus, and we are all very excited to re- establish this channel of communication with you! In our revamped newsletter you will be able to find news about the month that has gone by and updates on key events ahead. This introductory space is open for guest contributors who would like to address our community. Over the past months, the Basel Convention has grown to include 190 Parties and the Stockholm Convention has reached 186 Parties. We are delighted to welcome the Solomon Islands and Italy to the Basel and Stockholm Conventions respectively! The fact that our Conventions have reached almost universal coverage, arms us with strength to push forward towards a toxic-free world. Together we have been holding a series of meetings that are crucial to the establishment of chemicals pollution as an integral part of the international agenda. From the Chemical Review Committee and the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention Effectiveness Evaluation Committee and the meetings of the three Conventions' Bureaux, our work has intensified and is expected to keep increasing as we edge closer to the 2023 meetings of the of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions next May (2023 BRS COPs). The fact that this time around we are dealing with a rather short intersessional period from one set of COPs to the next, actually serves as an opportunity for us to gage our success in implementing short- term goals. I, for one, am very excited to present to you the theme of the 2023 BRS COPs and unveil all the surprises that we have been working on. But that will happen in due course... For the time being, I look forward to using this newsletter as another tool to strengthen our collaboration across this BRS family! Rolph Payet Executive Secretary Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions  OCTOB E R H I G H L I GH T S The Meetings of the Bureaux Rolph Payet was a keynote The 2022 International E- of the Conferences of the speaker at the World Trade waste Day served as an Parties to the Basel, Organization's third Trade and opportunity to launch our Rotterdam and Stockholm Environment Week, which was campaign on e-waste, which Conventions were held in held in Geneva. The BRS will peak in 2025 when the E- Geneva during the last two Conventions spoke at the High waste Amendments with enter weeks of October. Organised Level Panel on Multilateral into force. For now, we invite as hybrid events, the Bureaux Trade and Environment you to help us promote the Meetings focused on Cooperation, which centred on environmentally sustainable determining the provisional furthering resilience among management of e-waste by agenda for the upcoming 2023 countries to successfully taking part in our storytelling BRS COPs. address environmental crises. competition. October was a busy month On 6 October, the BRS A month full of workshops! In for the Stockholm Secretariat's Deputy Executive October, the BRS Secretariat Convention, with experts Secretary, Carlos Martin- organised a Regional meeting in Geneva to discuss Novella, participated in the Workshop on Legal Best Available Techniques United Nations Environment Frameworks and International and Best Environmental Programme's first Open- Trade Control Measures Practices, as well as the ended Working Group across nine countries in the Global Monitoring Plan for focusing on the establishment Pacific. Furthermore, in Persistent Organic Pollutants. of a Science-Policy Panel to Barcelona, Spain, BRS held the Next up is the second contribute further to the From Science to Action meeting of the Effectiveness sound management of workshop, focusing on Evaluation Committee. chemicals and waste. industrial chemicals guidance. D O NO R 'S CORNER This section of the newsletter is dedicated to our longstanding donors that we thank for their valuable contributions. So far, funding has been received by the following governments and entities: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Norwegian Retailers’ Environment Fund Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States of America. Our donors have contributed over USD 30 million to the voluntary trust funds of the three Conventions in the past two biennia alone. Without these contributions, we would have not been able to organise any governing and subsidiary body meetings, nor would we have been in a position to support countries with capacity-building and technical assistance. In other words, the BRS Conventions are alive and kicking because of these contributions. Thank you! FR OM THE REGION S The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean Region (BCRC Caribbean) serves 14 Parties in the Caribbean region. Established in 2008, BCRC Caribbean is implementing large number of regional and international projects, and is the executing agency of the project Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Management Mechanism for POPs in the Caribbean, which assists Parties in developing and updating their National Implementation Plans under the Stockholm Convention. MOR E T O C O M E ! 1- 4 NOV 7-9 NOV 9-11 NOV 9th Expert Group Meeting 2nd Meeting of the on DDT PACE II partnership Stockholm Convention Annual joint meeting of meeting Effectiveness Evaluation the regional centres under Committee the Basel and Stockholm conventions 14-17 NOV 16-18 NOV 23-25 NOV 15th meeting of the Basel First meeting of the 3rd meeting of the Basel Convention Rotterdam Convention Convention Plastic Waste Implementation and Compliance Committee Partnership working group Compliance Committee COMIN G S AN D G O I N G S New arrivals in Geneva! Andrea Cararo, Agustín Harte, Rina Kuusipalo, Manon Seyssaut and Wang Yang have joined the BRS Secretariat team. Andrea will facilitate technical assistance activities on plastic waste. Agustín will focus on technical aspects under the Stockholm Convention and waste- related issues under the Basel Convention. Rina is supporting the work of the Legal and Policy Unit. Manon is the new intern supporting the Legal and Policy Unit. Yang will work with the Governance Branch on the COPs meetings and the subsidiary bodies. On the other hand, we are bidding farewell to our intern Marie Defago who is off to Norway. Many thanks for all your work in plastics, Marie! FOLLOW US ON www.brsmeas.org Saatja: BRS Secretariat (No-Reply) <[email protected]> Saadetud: 08.11.2022 12:26 Teema: BRS Highlights - November 2022 Dear readers, We are happy to relaunch and share with you the newsletter of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. We are looking forward to your comments, so that we can improve BRS Highlights in the months to come! Public Awareness and Outreach Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions