Event: On the Road To UNEA 5.2 | Establishing a Science-Policy Panel (SPP) for Chemicals, Waste and Pollution

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About this Event

You are cordially invited to the virtual event On the Road To UNEA 5.2 | Establishing a Science-Policy Panel (SPP) for Chemicals, Waste and Pollution organized within the framework of the Geneva Environment Network. This event is part of a series of webinars, co-convened by Albania, Mali, North-Macedonia, Switzerland and Uruguay with the support of UNEP, to inform stakeholders of the key findings from the UNEP Assessment Report, in preparation for discussions expected to take place at the second segment of the fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2).

The fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4), in its resolution 4/8 adopted in 2019, recognized that science is needed to set priorities, for policymaking and to monitor progress: science-based decision-making should be promoted at all levels, and that the science-policy interface (SPI) needs to be strengthened. UNEA-4 further requested the Executive Director of UNEP to prepare an assessment of options for strengthening the science-policy interface at the international level. The assessment report reviews a variety of existing science-policy interface (SPI) platforms and examines potential impacts of and outputs from a strengthened Science-Policy Interface for chemicals and waste.

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SPEAKERS

By order of intervention.

• Valentina SIERRA | Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations in Geneva
• Sir Robert WATSON | Co-author of Assessment Report, former Chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) & former Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Monika MACDEVETTE | Head, Chemicals and Health Branch, UN Environment Programme
• Carlos MARTIN-NOVELLA | Deputy Executive Secretary, Basel Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions & former Deputy Secretary, IPCC
• Rachael KUPKA | Executive Director, Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP)‎
• Marcos ORELLANA | UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights
• Michel TSCHIRREN | Waste and Chemicals Focal Point, Global Affairs Section, Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland
• Kay WILLIAMS | Joint Head of International Chemicals, Pesticides and Hazardous Waste Hub - Environmental Quality, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom
• John ROBERTS (Moderator) | Former Co-Chair of the former Best Available Technologies/ Best Environmental Practices (BAT/BEP) Expert Group, Minamata Convention on Mercury

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