KATHMANDU, June 8: In commemoration of World Environment Day 2023, the Center for Public Health and Environment Development (CEPHED), in collaboration with IUCN, WCEL Nepal Chapter, successfully conducted a "Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Occupational & Chemical Safety and Health Issues in Nepal."
As the world moves towards an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, IUCN and GRID-Arendal partner in a new project: AFRIPAC, "Effective Plastic Treaty Capacity Building for Africa." This project aims to empower five (African) nations´ negotiating skills for a strong Global Treaty on plastic pollution. AFRIPAC is generously supported by Norad.
On 27 December 2022, the UN Secretary-General announced the appointment of Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema of the United Republic of Tanzania as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UNEP. She will assume her responsibilities on 15 February 2023.
Since June 2020, Ms. Mrema has been the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity, having previously served in acting capacity in the role since December 2019. Prior to that, Ms. Mrema served in various capacities in her two decades at UNEP, including as the Director of the Law Division and the Deputy Director of the Ecosystems Division.
From 2009 to 2012, she served as the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals as well as served as the Acting Executive Secretary of the UNEP/ASCOBANS (Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas) as well as Inter