GENEVA (CH)—CIEL experts are participating in and tracking the United Nations chemicals and waste negotiations at the Triple Conferences of the Parties of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs) in Geneva from April 28 to May 9, 2025, and are closely monitoring progress toward the sound management of chemicals and waste.
During the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions, Member States will work to improve global chemical and waste rules, although some Parties may try to undermine key information, bans and controls by arguing for unjustified exemptions or disregarding science, putting human health, human rights, and the environment at risk.
CIEL will work alongside partners to focus on:
- Banning “bad chemicals” — including some used to make plastics — and improving transparency
- Preventing a Pandora’s Box of exemptions for “bad chemicals” already banned in previous conventions
- Strengthening controls of the transboundary movements of hazardous plastic waste
- Empowering countries to receive information on chemicals and pesticides, and decide whether they want to import them
- [verb?] Intersections with the ongoing plastics treaty negotiations, which are set to resume in Geneva in early August.
CIEL who are available to speak include:
Giulia Carlini — CIEL Senior Attorney, IPEN Toxic Plastics Working Group Co-Chair and CIEL delegation lead. Giulia specializes in chemicals and endocrine disruptors regulation and the links between plastic and health. In particular, she follows the negotiations under the Stockholm Convention. Follow Giulia on LinkedIn and BlueSky
David Azoulay — CIEL Senior Attorney, Director of Environmental Health program. David specializes in sound management of chemicals, reducing plastic pollution, public participation, and institutional issues. Follow David on LinkedIn and BlueSky.
Andrés Del Castillo — CIEL Senior Attorney. Andrés specializes in international negotiations, the legal aspects of the control of transboundary movements of hazardous plastic waste, and the intersection with the ongoing negotiations on the plastics treaty. Follow Andrés on LinkedIn and BlueSky.
For more information about issues related to the BRS Conventions, please read the International Pollutant Elimination Network’s Quick Views
Media contact:
Cate Bonacini, Senior Communications Campaign Specialist, +1-510-520-9109, [email protected]