OUtcomes of the talk in the run-up to the next UN Environment Assembly - "An evidenced-based approach to resilient, sustainable infrastructure: tools and experiences" with Steven CROSSKEY, Head, Strategic Initiatives Infrastructure and Project Management Group, UNOPS, and Scott THACKER, Senior Analyst, UNOPS, and Honorary Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

Discussion with Yacouba Sawadogo and Tony Rinaudo, Right Livelihood Award Laureates 2018.

Discussion with Yacouba Sawadogo and Tony Rinaudo, Right Livelihood Award Laureates 2018.

Outcomes of the Chemicals and Waste briefing focusing on the preparations for the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, organized within the framework of the Geneva Environment Network, at the International Environment House on 5 November 2018. The event also provided an update on the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions’ intersessional work, including key outcomes of recent subsidiary bodies’ meetings, and preparations for the 2019 meetings of the conferences of the Parties, as well as on the activities of the Chemicals and Health Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme.

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