Events

The Secretariat of the Strategic Approach to Chemicals Management (SAICM) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have established a Community of Practice (CoP) on Highly Hazardous Pesticides to bring representatives from different sectors together and to create a learning network around issues related to addressing Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). The next online session will be held on 15 September at 14:00 - 15:30 Central European Time (CET) and the topic will be “Alternatives in Phasing Out HHPs: Industry innovations

The Secretariat of the Strategic Approach to Chemicals Management (SAICM) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have established a Community of Practice (CoP) on Lead in Paint to bring representatives from different sectors together and to create a learning network around issues related to the elimination of Lead Paint. The next online session will be held on 14 September at 14:00 – 15:30 Central European Time (CET) and will discuss “Making the case: raising awareness about importance of lead

The Global Wastewater Initiative (GW²I) is pleased to announce the upcoming webinar titled “ Wastewater and Emerging Pollutants: Unfolding A Toxic Story.” Join on Thursday, 9 September 2021, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Nairobi time. Click here to register, and feel free to share this message with anyone you think could be interested in this event. For more information, please visit the webpage of the event or contact [email protected] and [email protected]. GW²I is looking forward to your participation!

The 15th meeting of the COP to the Basel Convention, the tenth meeting of the COP to the Rotterdam Convention and the tenth meeting of the COP to the Stockholm Convention will convene back-to-back in 2021. The SDG Knowledge Hub summary of the 2019 chemicals triple-COP is here.

The Fifth Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) has been postponed until further notice.

You are kindly invited you to join again once a month for 45 minutes on gender. In the first half of the year 2021, the focus is on gender equality and its interconnection to the multi-sectoral world of chemistry! Every last Tuesday at 2 pm CEST, there will be opportunities to learn from experts and discuss how we can create gender-just and chemical safe sectors. Every last Tuesday of the month – at 2 pm CEST: WEBINAR 1 – 23rd

The Secretariat of the Strategic Approach to Chemicals Management (SAICM) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have established a Community of Practice (CoP) on Chemicals in Products to bring representatives from different sectors together and to create a learning network around issues related to addressing Chemicals in Products (CiP). The next online session will be held on 17 June at 14:00 – 15:30 Central European Time (CET) and the topic will be “Chemicals in toys”. Participation is open to

The Secretariat of the Strategic Approach to Chemicals Management (SAICM) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have established a Community of Practice (CoP) on Lead in Paint to bring representatives from different sectors together and to create a learning network around issues related to the elimination of Lead Paint. The next online session will be held on 9 June at 16:00 – 17:30 Central European Time (CET) and will discuss “Reformulation is entirely possible”. Participation is open to the