Events

The Department of the Environment in cooperation with AMAP and CPRAC organize a workshop in Rabat on 13-15 March 2012 to develop the elements of a monitoring plan for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Morocco as part of the Global Monitoring Plan prepared by the Stockholm Convention on POPs. Presentations by scientists experienced in the measurement of concentrations of POPs in the atmosphere and humans will be followed by working groups to develop a simple monitoring program that can last over time.

Registration for assistance is restricted due to limited capacity of the room and resources available. For more information please contact: vvidal.tecnic@cprac.org

The Regional Activity Center for Cleaner Production (CP/RAC) is organizing a workshop on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) that will be held in University of Malta on 6th December 2011.

The objective of the workshop is to give students and young people in general basic information about some toxic chemicals that are present in our day life. Participants will be shown where these chemicals are, how they can affect our health and environment and with which solutions we count in order to minimize their presence in our environment.

A joint workshop with regional centres/offices under the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and UNEP regional Offices will be organized from 27th September until 1st October.

The CP/RAC has signed a MoU with the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention for the joint organization of the workshop which will be held in the premises of the centre.

The CP/RAC participated in the 2nd Workshop for Stockholm Convention Regional and subregional Centres.

The meeting was organized by the Secretariat of the Convention and it was held in Geneva during 28 September 2nd October 2009. Representatives from all the centres were present at the meeting and there were two different modules:

- A general module dealing with the following uo of the COP decissions on the technical assistance and capacity buiding.