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Waste management for human health and livelihood
… Development Goals (MDGs), to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and … healthier. In some countries, more than one third of the disease burden could be prevented through environmental … main victims and make up 74% of deaths due to diarrhoeal disease and lower respiratory infections. Low income …
UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015
… Japan. Recognizing the substantial lessons of Minamata disease, the convention reflects the determination of the … around this issue. Japan’s National Institute for Minamata Disease is the world’s first institute dedicated to … regulation to reduce exposure and thereby vulnerability to disease. To this end, UNEP has launched a new project to …
Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants
… will limit the production and use of DDT to controlling disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes; it also allows … and use of DDT for controlling mosquitoes and other disease vectors in accordance with World Health Organization …
Protecting human health and the environment: A guide to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals and pesticides
… on from mothers to children – infants were "born" with the disease. New cases continued to appear into the 1980s. There … killing or repelling the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a disease that annually kills 1 million children under the age …