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Unlocking MEAs’ Potential: Supporting Parties’ Environmental Action through Data and Knowledge Management | BRS COPs 2023 Side Event
10 May 2023 @ 17:00 - 19:00
This side event to the 2023 Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention Conference of the Parties will bring together various knowledge management initiatives from Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) that contribute to facilitating the parties’ work in the implementation and compliance of the respective conventions in order to accelerate environmental progress.
About this Event
This event aims to bring together various knowledge management initiatives from Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) that contribute to facilitating the parties’ work in the implementation and compliance of the respective conventions in order to accelerate environmental progress.
The programme will include a presentation of the InforMEA Portal and its newly developed negotiator’s section, which is a part of the InforMEA Initiative. The initiative is one of the largest communities of practice among MEAs, dedicated to developing harmonized and interoperable information systems for the benefit of the parties involved.
The side event will also feature the Minamata Convention Online Reporting Tool (ORT). The ORT has been successfully used to conduct a national reporting exercise, and the event will showcase how it can facilitate the work of focal points.
Additionally, the event will cover CITES’s country profiles and compliance databases, the BRS clearing-house mechanism, and conclude with a Q&A session.
The aim of the event is to enrich the perspectives of various stakeholders regarding the applicability of these experiences in national and global contexts and hopefully, to contribute to reducing the triple planetary crises of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss.
This side event to the 2023 Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention Conference, taking place from 1 to 12 May 2023 in Geneva, is organized by the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the United Nations Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (InforMEA) within the framework of the Geneva Environment Network.
Speakers
By order of intervention.
Monika STANKIEWICZ – Executive Secretary, Minamata Convention Secretariat
Anna GARCÍA SANS – Communications and Knowledge Management Officer, Minamata Convention Secretariat
Eva DUER – Legal Officer and InforMEA Team Leader, Law Division, UNEP
Peter SPEELMAN – Associated Legal Officer, Law Division, UNEP
Haruko OKUSU – Chief, Outreach and Projects Unit, CITES Secretariat
Shashika SEDARA HETTIGE – Associate Information Systems Officer, CITES Secretariat
Osmany PEREIRA- Chief, Information and Conference Services Branch, BRS Secretariat
Diana RIZZOLIO – Coordinator, Geneva Environment Network | Moderator
Registration
This event will take place in a hybrid format, both in-person and virtually. In-person participation is open to the registered participants to the BRS COPs. Online participation is open to all. Register on webex.