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UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015
… every area of the world economy. The future of sustainable development is therefore inseparable from the way chemicals … indus- trial accidents. Above the cost savings of these clean-ups, sustainable investments and sound chemicals … the guidelines, under the Global Mercury Partnership; this mechanism plays an important role in implementing the …
Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants
… of every human being on Earth. This is a frightening development. There are traces within you – or, depending on … pollution. 13 RID D IN G TH E W O RLD O F PO PS Aim No. 4: Clean-up old stockpiles and equipment containing POPs How do … these fields to poorer nations. It will set up a worldwide mechanism for monitoring data on POPs that can be used by …
A Guide to Cooperation on the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
… UNEP’s Governing Council decided in 2002 to advance the development of a Strategic Approach to International … initiative was endorsed by the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in September 2002 and is … (the GEF is the Stockholm Convention’s interim financial mechanism). � Use the GEF-funded “enabling activities” for …
Protecting human health and the environment: A guide to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals and pesticides
… sick and absent farmworkers and obsolete stockpile clean up operations can be very expensive – but also a matter … countries protect human health and the environment as the development and marketing of chemicals accelerates over the …
Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
… was jointly prepared by the Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social … 18th and 19th sessions of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). It provides examples of successful … Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions have developed a mechanism that, while maintaining the legal autonomy of these …