The third session of the OEWG will be held at International Conference Center in Geneva (CICG), Switzerland from 17 to 21 June 2024. The meeting will be preceded by informal, regional and stakeholder consultations, on 16 June 2024 at the same venue.
About the ad hoc open-ended working group on a science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution
In March 2022, the United Nations Environment Assembly at its resumed fifth session (UNEA-5.2) decided that a science-policy panel should be established to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution.
Through its resolution 5/8, UNEA further decided to convene, subject to the availability of resources, an ad hoc open-ended working group (OEWG) to prepare proposals for the science-policy panel, to begin work in 2022 with the ambition of completing it by the end of 2024.
The first session of the OEWG was held in two parts. The first part of the session (OEWG 1.1) took place in Nairobi in a hybrid format, with online participation, on 6 October 2022, and the resumed first session (OEWG 1.2) took place in Bangkok from 30 January until 3 February 2023. The second session of the OEWG (OEWG 2) took place in Nairobi in person from 11 - 15 December 2023.
For more information, contact the secretariat at spp-cwp[at]un.org
