India Advocates Global Action on Chemicals and Waste at BRS COPs 2025

An inter-ministerial delegation from India, led by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, participated in the Conference of the Parties (COPs) to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions being held in Geneva from April 30 to May 1, 2025. The high-level segment of this year’s summit was themed “Make visible the invisible: Sound management of chemicals and wastes.”

At the ministerial roundtable on ‘Means of Implementation’, Bhupender Yadav emphasized the critical need for access to finance, technology transfer, capacity-building, technical assistance, and international cooperation to effectively implement the BRS Conventions. He detailed India’s national approach through robust legislation such as the Environment (Protection) Act, the Hazardous and Other Wastes Rules, and the E-Waste Management Rules, 2016—complemented by sustained institutional and technical investment.

On the sidelines of the COPs, Yadav joined a consultation organized by Norway on the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for Plastic Pollution. He shared India’s proactive domestic measures, including the ban on identified single-use plastic items and the implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for plastic packaging.

Reaffirming India’s leadership in global environmental governance under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Yadav recalled India’s pivotal role in introducing the UNEA-4 resolution on single-use plastics—an initiative that propelled the issue onto the global agenda.

In a bilateral meeting with Katrin Schneeberger, Director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Yadav discussed the development of a legally binding global treaty on plastic pollution and India’s support for establishing a Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste, as called for by UNEA resolution

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