BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a84e500997c4 DTSTART:20230505T111500Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20230505T124500Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Sustainable trade and development cooperation in support of the Bas el Convention Plastic Waste Amendments implementation CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments have redefined th e global framework for trade in plastic wastes.\n\nUNCTAD 15 Bridgetown Co venant at UNCTAD 15 has made a call to “addressing the discharge of plas tic litter and other waste in oceans and significantly reducing marine pol lution of all kinds and ensuring sustainable consumption and production pa tterns” in light with SDG 14 and 12. Focus of UNCTAD work has been the d evelopment of the first ever plastic trade database\, the identification o f material substitutes to plastics and to support subsides reform in the p olymer sector.\n\nAt the WTO Dialogue on Plastic Pollution and Environment ally Sustainable Plastic Trade\, trade officials have been discussing ways in which enhanced trade cooperation can support international efforts to address plastic pollution\, including in particular under the BRS Conventi ons. In their Ministerial Statement\, Trade Ministers of the 76 co-sponsor s called for concrete\, pragmatic\, and effective outcomes by the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13) scheduled to take place in February 2024.\n \nIn this context\, the WTO\, UNCTAD and BRS Secretariats have been closel y cooperating to support such efforts. As delegations ramp up their delibe rations towards WTO MC13 and UNCTAD 16 Ministerial Conference\, this event will brief participants on some of the relevant discussions and data gene rated in the multilateral trading system\, including better understanding of trade in plastic along the value chains as well as plastic waste trade and "\;hidden material flows"\; of plastics and facilitating acces s to technologies required to implement the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments.\n\nIt will also introduce how these initiatives could assist in current discussions under the International Negotiating Committee to en d plastic pollution.\n\nTentative programme\n\nHigh-level opening remarks (20 min)\, followed by technical interactive Panel (40 min) followed by Q& amp\;A with the audience (30 min).\n\n \n<\;p>\;The Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments have redefined the global framework for trade in plastic wastes.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;UNCTAD 15 Bridgetown Covenant at UNCTAD 15 has made a call to “addressing the discharge of plastic litte r and other waste in oceans and significantly reducing marine pollution of all kinds and ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns” in light with SDG 14 and 12. Focus of UNCTAD work has been the developmen t of the first ever plastic trade database\, the identification of materia l substitutes to plastics and to support subsides reform in the polymer se ctor.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;At the WTO Dialogue on Plastic Pollution a nd Environmentally Sustainable Plastic Trade\, trade officials have been d iscussing ways in which enhanced trade cooperation can support internation al efforts to address plastic pollution\, including in particular under th e BRS Conventions. In their Ministerial Statement\, Trade Ministers of the 76 co-sponsors called for concrete\, pragmatic\, and effective outcomes b y the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13) scheduled to take place in Fe bruary 2024.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;In this context\, the WTO\, UNCTAD and BRS Secretariats have been closely cooperating to support such efforts . As delegations ramp up their deliberations towards WTO MC13 and UNCTAD 1 6 Ministerial Conference\, this event will brief participants on some of t he relevant discussions and data generated in the multilateral trading sys tem\, including better understanding of trade in plastic along the value c hains as well as plastic waste trade and "\;hidden material flows" \; of plastics and facilitating access to technologies required to impleme nt the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p> \;It will also introduce how these initiatives could assist in current dis cussions under the International Negotiating Committee to end plastic poll ution.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;h4>\;Tentative programme<\;/h4>\;\n\n<\ ;p>\;High-level opening remarks (20 min)\, followed by technical interac tive Panel (40 min) followed by Q&\;amp\;A with the audience (30 min).& lt\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;&\;nbsp\;<\;/p>\;\n\n\nView meeting on un ctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/sustainable-trade-and-development-coo peration-support-basel-convention-plastic-waste DTSTAMP:20260818T230432Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR