From July 26-30, GAD faculty Dr. Edoardo Monaco Associate Professor and GAD Programme Director, Ms Helen He Assistant Instructor and student intern Holly, Ms Linda Wang, vice secretary-general, and Ms Syying, international coordinator joined the “Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions' (BRS) Conferences of the Parties (COPs) 2021" as official observers.

These three conventions promote a coordinated, life-cycle approach to the environmentally sound management (ESM) of chemicals & waste across the world, which is central to the global sustainable development agenda, the North-South debate, and thus for the overall world order in the years to come.

The week was filled with events, that highlighted the need for action in a number of selected domains (e.g. e-waste, plastics and more) as well as the challenges typical of intergovernmental negotiations. Over a 1000 participants from UN agencies, government ministries, academia and civil society organisations joined the summit.

For more, please see:

http://www.brsmeas.org/Implementation/MediaResources/PressReleases/2021TripleCOPsconvenedonline/tabid/8915/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Op-ed by Dr. Monaco:

http://www.cbcgdf.org/English/NewsShow/5012/16721.html