The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), UN Habitat, United Nations University (UNU), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Basel Convention and UN Environment at the kind invitation of the Universal Communications Service Access Fund (UCSAF) and Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), organised the eighth edition of the Green Standards Week, from 9 to 12 April 2018 in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
The United Nations Environment Programme held its first Scientific and technical Committee meeting on ChemObs Guidance “Integrated Guidance for Decision Making Tools (DMT) for the Sound Management of Chemicals in Africa” in Dakar, Senegal. 27-29 March 2018
The intersessional process considering the Strategic Approach and the sound management of chemicals and waste beyond 2020 held its second meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, from 13 to 15 March 2018, hosted by the Government of Sweden
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The Bamako Convention held the second meeting of its Conference of Parties in Abidjan between the 30th of January - 1st of February 2018
On 1 February 2018, the Government of Nigeria deposited its instrument of ratification, thereby becoming the 88th Party to the Minamata Convention.
On Friday the 20th of October 2017,a training workshop on the
“Environmentally Sound Management of Used Lead Acid Batteries and the Application of the Benchmarking Assessment Tool in the context of implementing the Basel Convention” was held at the Ibis Hotel, Murtala Mohammed Int’l Airport Road, Lagos.