On 6-17 June 2022, the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention, the 10th meeting of the Confernece of Parties to the Rotterdam Convention, and the 10th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention will convene in-person in Geneva, Switzerland.
The theme of the meetings will be “Global Agreements for a Healthy Planet: Sound management of chemicals and waste”, as same as the online meetings held in 2021.
Key outcomes from the online segment included the adoption of interim programmes of work and budgets for 2022 for the three conventions, the adoption of a decision agreeing to resume the meetings during a face-to-face segment in Geneva in June 2022, and an agreement to continue intersessional work under the conventions in 2022, including work of the subsidiary bodies and relevant partnerships, until further consideration at the face-to-face segments of the meetings.