Henrik Selin Attends Fifth Meeting of Stockholm Convention in Geneva

Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin attended the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention held from April 27-29 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Selin attended the meeting as part of his research on the global management of hazardous chemicals, which includes the Pardee Paper Managing Hazardous Chemicals: Longer-Range Challenges and his book Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management, recently published by the MIT Press.

He is currently working on a new research project that focuses on the creation and operation of regional centers under the Stockholm and Basel Conventions. These regional centers have been established to facilitate capacity building and technology transfer, but have received very little academic attention to date and are worthy of much more empirical research.

The Pardee Center is a recognized observer with the Stockholm Convention.

Henrik Selin is the faculty coordinator for the IR & Environmental Policy program. He is also a Core Faculty member of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University, and an Affiliated Researcher with the Center for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University. He conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development.