The Conference of the Parties to the UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention will convene for its thirteenth meeting. The meeting will cover key topics on industrial safety and work areas under the Convention, and Parties will take important decisions to steer the work forward. After the meeting opens, the UNECE Seminar on the Global energy transition: Strengthening industrial safety to address emerging risks will introduce challenges and trends for industrial safety in decarbonization agendas and include an exchange on emerging hazards and risks in the energy transition (27 November 2024, 10:20 – 13:00). The status of implementation of the Convention from 2019-2022 will be reviewed through the tenth report on implementation, which provides a number of policy and technical recommendations for improving industrial safety and related protections of people and the environment. Parties and other member States will share their experience and progress made in the implementation of decisions 2020/1 and 2022/1 on strengthening mine tailings safety and Natech risk management, respectively. New technologies will also be reviewed in a Special session on Satellite monitoring technologies, including InSAR, for tailings safety. In celebrating the Assistance and Cooperation Programme’s 20th anniversary, beneficiary countries will highlight the results and impact of activities through a panel discussion. Among other strategic matters, the meeting will also feature a financing “tour-de-table” for Parties to partake in a dialogue on enhancing financial commitment and futureproofing of the Convention.
The provisional agenda and available meeting documentation will be provided in the tabs below.
Organizational and practical information
Participants attending the meeting are requested to register online by 21 November 2024. Registration will be opened soon.
We recommend using the Google Chrome browser for registration. Please note that Parties are required to participate in-person for the purposes of quorum and decision-making.
As indicated in the provisional agenda, please note the 30 October 2024 deadline for the:
- Submission of advance copies of credentials, while the original credentials must also be presented to the secretariat upon arrival to the venue (more information is provided in the Information Notice below) (Parties only)
- Submission of statements and/or presentations
- Submission of eventual comments on: the draft decisions on work on the Industrial Safety of the Energy Transition (ECE/CP.TEIA/2024/3), strengthening implementation of the Convention (ECE/CP.TEIA/2024/6), guiding principles for financial assistance (ECE/CP.TEIA/2024/9) and the identification of tailings management facilities as hazardous activities (ECE/CP.TEIA/2024/11); factual information regarding your country within the tenth report on implementation of the Convention (2019-2022) (ECE/CP.TEIA/2024/5); and the draft workplan and resource requirements for the Convention for 2025–2026 (ECE/CP.TEIA/2024/8)
- Communication of information on your pledge and leadership regarding the workplan items
- Financial request forms (eligible countries only, see the related request form in English and Russian)
All organizational and practical information for delegates of this meeting is provided in the Information Notice (see English and Russian versions), including on the venue, registration, credentials, conference details, the seminar, financial support, visas, meals and accommodation, airport and other means of arrival, conference facilities and Geneva.
For more general information, please consult: https://unece.org/practical-information-delegates and https://www.ungeneva.org/en/about/practical-information
Please direct all submissions and inquiries to: [email protected]