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Waste management for human health and livelihood

… Waste Management for Human Health and Livelihood Rationale 1. The theme of the … Parties to the Basel Convention is Waste Management for Human Health and Livelihood. 2. The Basel Convention was originally adopted to protect human health and the environment against the serious effects …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Joint statement of the United Nations Special Procedures Mandate Holders on the occasion of the 24th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC

06 Dec 2018 News in Climate and Atmosphere

Handbook of The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

… published a paper in the journal Nature. They warned that human-generated chlorofluoro- carbons could harm the ozone … Convention, Aware of the potentially harmful impact on human health and the environment through modification of the … and the member States shall not be entitled to exercise rights under the Convention or relevant protocol …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Convention text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

… further international action to reduce the risks to human health and the environment from the release of mercury … thereafter. The objective of the Convention is to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions … that nothing in this Convention is intended to affect the rights and obligations of any Party deriving from any …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Desertification: the invisible frontline

… degraded. Drylands are more vulnerable to natural and human destruction due to the small water containment in soil. … Domestic Product (aGDP) through land degradation. Without rights to land, however, people like Maria have little … to climate change. Drought impacts are most visible in human losses and on agricultural production, but have higher …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… methane, and nitrous oxide, in the atmosphere due to human activity. Most greenhouse gases remain in the … for a long period. This means that even if emissions from human activities were to stop immediately, the effects of the … the preamble of an international treaty does not create rights and obligations between Parties, it normally sets the …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols

… NATIONS PUBLICATION Copyright ® United Nations, 2015 All rights reserved UNECE Information Service Phone: +41 (0) 22 … framework for controlling and reducing the damage to human health and the environment caused by transboundary air … lakes. The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm signalled the start for active …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… CGIAR aims to reduce rural poverty, improve food security, human health and nutrition and encourage more sustainable … ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES ON RUNOFF IN THE A ARID AND SEMI-ARID … traditional knowledge; then how they can exercise their rights to the range land resources, and finally how empowered …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Acting Now!

… was initiated in 2005 to take immediate action to protect human health and the environment from the release of mercury … goal of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership is to protect human health and the global environment from the release of …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Controlling transboundary movements of hazardous wastes

… or other wastes are managed in a manner which will protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects … that any TBM is conducted in a manner which will protect human health and the environment. In addition to these …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste