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.