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UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015
… chain. Access to essential information: when a chemical or substance is subject to a legislative restriction somewhere … SMEs can be achieved through introducing and adopting alternative substances and related technologies. For over 25 … (PVC) carpet tile (24-inch squares) backing with an alternative, we reduced its weight by 40 per cent; lowered …
Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
… NIP National Implementation Plan ODS Ozone-Depleting Substance OEWG Open-ended Working Group OPCW Organization for … a Technical Secretariat for the Coordination of Chemical Substance Management that involves stakeholders from all … has understood the importance of integrated chemical substance management several years ago . The commitments …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… by COP 7”, the GEF will consider the reasons for the alternative process. NAPAs also provide an avenue for linking … preferred outcome for these issues? q What are acceptable alternative outcomes? q What procedure will the State take at … The Committee strives to make decisions “on all matters of substance by consensus.” As a last resort, the Committee may …
Guide for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements
… from and how do they develop? MEAs differ in scope and substance. Nevertheless, they tend to be formulated through a … yourself with the position of a larger group, or in the alternative, announce your intention to speak on behalf of a … Madame Chair, my delegation is of the view that the alternative approach we have just described may offer the …
Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives
… and mobile sources of air pollution and to develop alternative environmentally sound technologies; To observe … reuse, recycling and use of environmentally friendly alternative materials, with the participation of government … sound management of chemicals and the development of safer alternative products and processes, including non-chemical …
The development of international environmental law at the Multilateral Environmental Agreements Conference of the Parties and its validity
… resulted in a disinclination to create new IGOs18 and the alternative CoP model evolved over a period of time. The … 241 at 268-271. 34 F Biermann, note 33, identifies three alternative models. 35 See, for example, A Steiner, LA … Sea’ (1990) Documentary Yearbook at 332.. 13 matters of substance, are normally submitted for adoption by consensus, …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… water rationing. Contaminant: (New Zealand): includes any substance (including gases, [odorous compounds,] liquids, … regarding the future generations’ interest; 7. there is no alternative to water; it has environmental and economic value … meters, and in case of absence of such water meters, an alternative water recording procedure established by the …
The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment
… plan, taking into account present and future needs of, and alternative water sources for, the aquifer States; and (d) … in the source water body, and a discussion of possible alternative sources for the desired water. For example, under … are not already available to the commissioner; [and] “(5) alternative sources of water or methods which were …
Glossary of terms for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements
… ODA Official Development Assistance ODS Ozone-depleting substance (under the Montreal Protocol and the Vienna … to the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol on alternative technologies to the use of ozone- depleting …
Sources of international water law
… of the dispute. Article 12 Decisions both on procedure and substance of the arbitral tribunal shall be taken by a … arbitral tribunal, both on questions of procedure and of substance, shall be taken by majority vote of its members; … of the arbitral tribunal, both on procedure and on substance, shall be taken by majority vote of its members. 8. …