Fwd: INVITATION - POP Contaminated Sites: New Guidance for Sustainable Remediation | Road to 2025 BRS COPs - Thursday 20 March 2025, 11:00 CET/ 13:00 Hrs
Silvani E Mng'anya
From: UNEP Geneva Environment Network <gensec...@un.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Subject: INVITATION - POP Contaminated Sites: New Guidance for Sustainable Remediation | Road to 2025 BRS COPs - Thursday 20 March 2025, 11:00 CET
To: UNEP Geneva Environment Network <gensec...@un.org>
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Excellency,
Dear colleague,
Dear Madam and Sir,
We would like to bring to your kind attention the online event “POP Contaminated Sites: New Guidance for Sustainable Remediation” organized within the framework of the Road to 2025 BRS COPs event series, that will take place on Thursday 20 March 2025, at 11:00 CET, on Webex.
ABOUT THE EVENT
You are cordially invited to this event “POP Contaminated Sites: New Guidance for Sustainable Remediation” co-organized by the International Elimination Pollutants Network (IPEN) and the Geneva Environment Network within the framework of the Road to 2025 BRS COPs.
This event features a discussion of the new Guidance on best available techniques and best environmental practices for the management of sites contaminated with persistent organic pollutants, recently finalized by the Stockholm Convention BAT BEP Expert Group. The guidance has a focus on sustainable management and remediation of POP contaminated sites using techniques that avoid unintentional creation of POPs (so-called UPOPs) and maximise soil conservation. The guidance is designed for parties seeking to establish or improve their contaminated site framework including technical, policy, legal and financial issues. Speakers will also discuss emerging remediation techniques and hotspots affected by POP PFAS, brominated POPs, dioxins and PCBs.
More information: https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/pop-contaminated-sites-new-guidance-for-sustainable-remediation-road-to-2025-brs-cops/
SPEAKERS
Speakers will include by order of intervention:
- Lee BELL | Technical and Policy Advisor, IPEN | Stockholm BAT BEP Expert Group
- Boudewijn FOKKE | Soil Consultancy & Stockholm BAT BEP Expert Group
- Yuyun ISMAWATI | Co-Chair, IPEN & Senior Advisor and Co-Founder, Nexus3 Indonesia
- Jindrich PETRLIK | Head of the Toxic and Waste Programme, Arnika & Stockholm BAT BEP Expert Group
- Diana RIZZOLIO | Coordinator, Geneva Environment Network
rEGISTRATION
The event will take place online. To participate, kindly register on Webex.
ROAD TO 2025 BRS COPs
In the lead up to the 2025 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, taking place from 28 April to 9 May 2025 in Geneva, the Geneva Environment Network is collaborating with various partners, including the BRS Secretariat, for a series of events providing information on preparations and facilitating dialogues on key issues to be discussed at the meetings.
Other upcoming sessions in this series include:
· The Right to Know – Modernising the Rotterdam Convention | 19 Mar 2025 13:00 – 14:30 CET | Online – organized with the Australian Council of Trade Unions
· Addressing the Impacts of Pesticides on Human Rights in the Framework of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions | 03 Apr 2025 14:00 – 15:30 CEST | Online – organized with OHCHR and FAO
· The Hidden Plastic Waste Exports, the Case for Basel Convention Controls on RDF and Textiles | 9 Apr 2025 11:00 – 12:30 CEST | Online – organized with IPEN
· Briefing on the 2025 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions | 10 Apr 2025, 10:00 – 11:30 CEST | International Environment House I & Online – organized with the BRS Secretariat
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
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