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A technical expert workshop on indicators, generously hosted by the Government of the United Kingdom,  was held from 3 to 5 September 2019 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The workshop was run by the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).

The overall objective of the workshop was for participating experts to:

• Identify and review existing and potential new indicators and indicator criteria to enable assessment of global progress towards the proposed strategic objectives for chemicals and waste; and
• Provide information to assist in further elaborating the targets to ensure they are Specific, Measurable, Ambitious, Realistic and Time-bound (SMART).

Workshop documents

• Workshop agenda
• Participants list
• Meeting report

Presentations

1. Workshop Objectives, Defra, Government of the United Kingdom
2. SAICM and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste, SAICM
3. Analysing targets to help develop indicators, UNEP-WCMC
4. Developing Good Indicators, UNEP-WCMC
5. Examples of environmental conventions reporting processes, UNEP-WCMC
6. Health indicators of relevance to monitoring sound chemicals management: experience with SDG3 and the international health regulations, WHO
7. Indicators experience from the Convention on Biological Diversity and the SDGs, UNEP-WCMC
8. Public Interest NGOs Contribution to SAICM, IPEN and PAN‐Ethiopia
9. Reflections for indicator development from an environmental health perspective, University of Cape Town
10. Stakeholder contribution to SAICM and possible collaboration area’s, Cefic and ICCA
11. Synergies with other processes, UNEP