IPEN organized a successful side event during the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions' Conference of the Parties: "Waste & Synergies between Basel and Stockholm Conventions: Understanding the Links and Implications" Alan Watson (Public Interest Consultants and IPEN), Jindrich Petrlik (Arnika Toxics and Waste Programme and IPEN's Dioxin, PCBs and Waste Working Group), and Jim Puckett (Basel Action Network) made presentations.
Two environmental groups have gone to court to force the eThekwini Municipality to release the air pollution licences and compliance reports of Durban’s Sapref and Engen petrol refineries.
The two groups said in legal papers lodged in the Durban High Court that the city had refused their request for access to this information in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act.
The 12th Conference of the Parties (COP) for the Basel Convention, the 7th COP for the Rotterdam Convention and the 7th COP for the Stockholm Convention convened its first day on Monday, 4 May 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. Representatives from IPEN Participating Organizations in 25 countries are attending the conference and participating in contact groups, side events, plenary interventions and more. For details about IPEN's work during the meeting, as well as relevant documents and positions, please see our COP7 page.
