Thematic Workshop On Synergies For Capacity Building Under International Agreements Addressing Chemicals And Waste Management, April 2004 Geneva
NTN reports from a recent UNITAR workshop in Geneva, hosted to encourage synergy in national capacities and the combined implementation of the international chemical conventions.
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OECD's 36th Joint Meeting of the Chemicals Committee and the Working Party on Chemicals, Pesticides and Biotechnology. Paris, 3-6 February 2004
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Report on 16th meeting of OECD Working Group on Pesticides (WGP), held 3-4 Feb.2004, Paris
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NTN PRESENTATION to OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction Steering Group
Seminar on Minor Uses and Risk Reduction, Canberra, Nov 4th 2003
Jo Immig reports on Minor Use Chemicals and Opportunities for Pesticide Reduction
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Report on the 35th OECD Joint Meeting Report of the ECO/NGO Delegate to the 35th Joint Meeting of the Chemicals Committee and the Working Party on Chemicals, Pesticides and Biotechnology, Paris, 10 -13 June 2003
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Report on the 34th OECD Joint Meeting (Paris 5-8th November 2002)
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UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM/GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FUND Regionally Based Assessment of persistent toxic substances, Manila August 2002
Following is a Report on Region 8 (South East Asia and South Pacific) Priority Setting Meeting, The meeting was well attended by the 12 countries who make up Region 8. However, the priority setting meeting highlighted a number of worrying issues.
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NTN Submission 2002 to Foreign Affairs and Trade in Support of the Ratification of POPs and PIC Treaties

Success! UN POPs TREATY - 122 COUNTRIES AGREE ON GLOBAL TREATY
At 8:30am on Sunday, 10th December 2000 in Johannesburg, negotiators from 122 countries agreed on a global treaty to ultimately eliminate the ‘dirty dozen' most persistent organic pollutants.
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