Meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in 2025
May 09, 2025
The seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-17), the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP-12) and the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP-12) were held back-to-back in Geneva from 28 April to 9 May 2025. The theme of the meetings and its high-level segment was “Make visible the invisible: sound management of chemicals and wastes”.
The meetings were attended by over 2,000 participants from 182 country Parties and 205 observer entities. A total of 56 decisions were adopted strengthening the sound management of chemicals and wastes for the protection of human health and the environment.