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May 23, 2025

RESULTS FROM THE ROTTERDAM CONVENTION’S COP 12 SATISFACTORY OUTCOMES, BUT MANY OPPONENTS WON’T GIVE UP

For the tenth time and after more than two decades of discussions, participants to the Rotterdam Convention’s twelfth Conference of the Parties (COP-12) which was held in the first days of May 2025, again did not agree to list chrysotile in it’s Annex III, opting instead to pursue their discussions on this matter at their next meeting, in 2027...

THE CHRYSOTILE INDUSTRY CREATED A RESPONSIBLE-USE PROGRAM THAT IS BASED
ON THE CONTROLLED-USE APPROACH TO REGULATING CHRYSOTILE

The chrysotile fibre is encapsulated in a matrix of cement or resin, preventing the release of fibres.		More than 90% of chrysotile is used in the construction of buildings in fiber cement and in the making of construction materials.