Areas of work: Sustainable & Just Economic Systems
Upcoming Event: Webinar and Quiet Diplomacy Dinner on Trade-Related Measures for a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution
We would like to inform you of an upcoming event on the 26th of April 2023, co-hosted by the Quaker...
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52nd Session of the Human Rights Council – Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
On the 9th and 10th of March, an Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment was...
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Countries adopt landmark treaty to protect the world’s oceans
Late in the evening on 4 March 2023, the United Nations adopted a historic treaty to protect the world’s oceans....
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Rethinking Plastic Pollution Solutions: QUNO’s Insights on Policy Interventions and Reuse Systems at WTO Dialogue
On 16 February 2023, Mr. Andres Naranjo, the Programme Associate for QUNO's Sustainable and Just Economic Systems (SJES), presented at...
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QUNO/CIEL Event on International Trade and the Upcoming Treaty to End Plastic Pollution
QUNO, and the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) organized an event to discuss trade measures in the context of...
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QUNO Stresses the Importance of Adopting Package-less and Reuse Systems to Address Plastics Pollution in a Workshop Organised by the WTO and UNCTAD
QUNO participated in a workshop on sustainable and effective substitutes and alternatives for plastics, co-organized by the World Trade Organization...
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QUNO Attends Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution
From 28 November to 2 December 2022, the first session of the Intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution was...
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QUNO Statement at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution
On Wednesday, 30 November 2022, delegates met in plenary to discuss key topics relating to the creation of a new...
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REPORT: “Package-less and Reuse Systems Through Policy Intervention: rethinking packaging in international trade”
With quantities of waste steadily rising worldwide, packaging material and packaging waste have emerged as critical areas for action at...
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QUNO highlights the role of the informal waste sector in African inclusive circular economy transitions
QUNO has partnered with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF South Africa) to demonstrate how the informal waste sector (IWS) can...
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COP27 QUNO Statement to the Global Stocktake Technical Dialogue on the Importance of Holistic and Integrated Approaches to International Climate Cooperation
ON 10 November 2022, QUNO Human Impacts of Climate Change representative, Lindsey Fielder Cook, spoke on an expert panel to...
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World leaders gather for opening of 77th session of UN General Assembly
Every year world leaders gather at UN headquarters in New York for the opening of the General Assembly (UNGA), with...
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Geneva Reporter September 2022
QUNO's September 2022 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This issue includes a welcome letter from our Director Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge...
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QUNO Delivers Statement at an informal discussion with stakeholders engaged in the work of the Informal Dialogue on Plastic Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade (IDP).
Acknowledging the strong momentum and action around issues of plastics pollution and marine plastics litter, QUNO participated in an informal discussion...
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‘What’s missing (and needed) post-COP26?’ – QUNO’s event at the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
On February 2nd 2022, over 130 people joined the virtual roundtable event co-hosted by QUNO Geneva and the Quaker Council...
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QUNO joins submission to the Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures
The Human Impacts of Climate Change programme jointly made a submission to the UNFCCC’s Katowice Committee of Experts on the...
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