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Letter from the President of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention, H. E. Prof. Dr. Ir. Gusti Muhammad Hatta, on the Bali Declaration on Waste Management for the Human Health and the Environment. (See also: Text of the Bali Declaration; Improvement of health through safe and environmentally sound waste management.
The 'Executive Secretary´s Keynotes' and the 'Basel Convention Highlights' sections has been recently added to this website. You can reach them through the menu item 'Media' on the top horizontal menu. (Press Releases, 15 July 2010)
In a bid to protect the coastal environment of West Africa from hazardous waste, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has equipped a modern laboratory at the Centre Ivoirien Anti-Pollution (CIAPOL) in Abidjan. Côte d'Ivoire. The new scientific facility will provide enhanced capabilities to improve the port's waste monitoring standards . Read more or watch video.
The Report of the Seventh Session of the Open-ended Working Group ( DOC, PDF ) is already available. (Meeting Documents, 15 June 2010)

Query response system

Prosolwaste a website devoted to the identification and solution of waste problems has developed a query-response system for waste management

Vacancy announcement

Vacancy announcement: Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions:

Job Title: Executive Secretary, D2
Department/ Office: UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME
Duty Station: GENEVA
Posting Period: 13 August 2010-12 October 2010

Upcoming meetings

Please visit the meeting section on this website for an updated list of the upcoming meetings of the Basel Convention

Request for comments

Requests directed at Parties and other stakeholders contained in the decisions of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (3/9/2008)

Directory of training institutions

The Implementation and Compliance Committee of the Convention has developed a directory of training institutions which offer courses that can help Parties to deal with cases of illegal traffic under the Convention. Relevant institutions which are interested in being included in the directory are invited to complete the forms (available in English, French and Spanish) and transmit them (saved as MS Word documents) to the Secretariat at SBC@unep.ch


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