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The SHPF toolkit - A toolkit to help you to monitor and report incidents of pesticide poisoning caused by Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations in your country under Article 6 of the Rotterdam Convention

… and to bring the expertise of the Secretariat and the Chemical Review Committee to bear on such issues. It allows … status regarding registrations or permissible or restricted uses in other parts of the world • Provide as … product formulations including availability of banned and restricted products • Pesticide usage (amounts and for which …
26 May 2026 Document

Chemicals for a sustainable future; Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar (Copenhagen, 17 May 2017)

… 9 1. Chemical production is increasing and poses risks to … 4. Chemical risks are traditionally underestimated by … ECHA European Chemicals Agency EDC Endocrine-disrupting chemical EEA European Environment Agency EU European Union … after 2015 require authorisation. Meanwhile, HBCDD is restricted under the Stockholm Convention. At the time that …
26 May 2026 Document

Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts

… production, use, release and unsafe disposal. These are chemical substances that have toxic properties, resist … are well studied, and they have been globally banned or restricted since 2004. In 2009, nine more substances were … regulations are only now entering into force or for which restricted uses are permitted, levels are not likely to …
26 May 2026 Document

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… Data-Products ). Argo is one of a number of physico-chemical and biological programmes that contribute to the … was limited because of the temporal and geographically restricted data that were available to measure ocean … different (Marshall et al., 2014) with warming largely restricted to Western Antarctica and reflected more widely in …
26 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Global trends in the production and use of DDT for control of malaria and other vector‑borne diseases

… less common (68%). Forty- one percent of Parties allowed restricted production and/ or use of DDT for control of … available vector control methods that do not rely on chemical insecticides, such as house improvement and larval …
26 May 2026 Document

A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows

… these trends, a study found that at least 39% of new chemical and biological entities approved by the US Federal … benefit sharing if access to such products is not restricted. To organize and oversee such benefit sharing, … • whether the right applies to all uses or is restricted regarding the purposes of such use (i.e. …
26 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

… of ecological processes at the landscape level to replace chemical inputs and reduce water consumption (“ecological … are not legally allowed to live in protected areas. Being restricted in using their customary farming areas in the park … State of the world’s freshwater ecosystems: physical, chemical, and biological changes. Annual Review of …
26 May 2026 Literature

Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… sites inscribed on Tentative Lists. RRF grants are also restricted to countries that are eligible for Official …
26 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity