Fourteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention

About 1,400 participants took part in the Conference, which was held from 29 April to 10 May 2019, in Geneva, Switzerland. Back-to-back ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP-9) and the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP-9) was also held.

Key Facts

• The theme of the meetings was “Clean Planet, Healthy People: Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste”.
• The meetings included joint sessions covering matters of relevance to at least two conventions and separate sessions of the meetings of the each of the three COPs.
• The fourteenth ....