Geneva, Switzerland, from 28 April to 9 May 2025

Venue: Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG), 17 rue de Varembé, Geneva, Switzerland

Highlights: 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) will be held back-to-back in Geneva from 28 April to 9 May 2025. The meetings will include a high-level segment on the afternoon of Wednesday, 30 April 2025 and the morning of Thursday, 1 May 2025. Preparatory meetings will be held on 27 April 2025.

The theme of the meetings and the high-level segment will be “Make visible the invisible: sound management of chemicals and wastes”.

The provisional agendas for the meetings and the tentative schedule, as approved by the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties, are available in the “Meeting documents” section.

Invitation letters for the meetings of the conferences of the Parties, as well as the high-level segment have been dispatched. The nomination deadline is 24 January 2025 for delegates to attend the meetings of the conferences of the Parties and 31 January 2025 for ministers to attend the high-level segment. For more information on registrations, see the section on “Registrations and credentials”. Additional information on the high-level segment is available in the section “High-level segment”. The online registration system available at https://registration.brsmeas.org is now open.

Working languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.