By 2050, there will be more than an estimated 130 million metric tons of e-waste produced per year, with many products containing Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) - rare elements essential for creating these technologies - and the focus for International E-Waste Day 2025. Today the BRS Conventions Secretariat is also proud to launch an updated Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), on the E-waste challenge, both in English and in Spanish.

The Secretariat and the FFEM have signed a 2ドル million financing agreement to tackle plastic pollution in Cabo Verde, Senegal, and French-speaking West Africa.

Check out the various calls for information and nominations set out in decisions of the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention.