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Protecting human health and the environment: A guide to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals and pesticides
… sub- sequently to "map", mysterious cases of poisoning in rural areas: fevers, chest and abdominal pains, vomiting, … like Senegal, where agriculture tends to be manual. In rural areas, the treated seeds were handled directly, … countries protect human health and the environment as the development and marketing of chemicals accelerates over the …
Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention
… of the problems of those wastes and explores why and how development agencies and other donors need to take action to … human health and the environment, in meeting sustainable development goals, and in the reduction of poverty. The … reduction Nearly a billion households, particularly the rural poor, rely directly on natural resources for their …
Scientific Assessment Report - UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution - Summary for policy makers
… 8. Air pollution control is linked to several sustainable development targets, promoting e.g. healthy lives and … and are the result of emissions in other cities as well as rural areas. Ammonia is a crucial contributor to the … linked to the future use of fossil fuels, but more to the development in livestock and diets. Current knowledge …