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POPs-free initiative
… and substitutes to POPs is essential for the phase-out of production and use of POPs. Articles 9 and 10 of the … and retailers of consumer products, who have phased-out POPs, to provide information on POPs-free products, on … During COP-5, a side event on opportunities for POPs phasing-out will be held on Thursday 28 April 2011. In light …
Transitioning to a pollution-free planet
… the adoption of reduction targets 28. Reduce or phase out the use of certain types of plastic (e.g. microbeads, … biphenyls) to meet the Stockholm Convention deadlines for phasing out the substances by 2025 and disposing of them … a Pollution-Free Planet Convention goals: the 2025 goal of phasing out the use of equipment containing PCB and the 2028 …
Volta River Basin Ghana & Burkina Faso - Transboundary water management through multi-level participatory governance and community projects
… keeping a focus on IWRM issues. The studies were carried out with the communities to encourage support, ownership and … situation analyses of Ghana and Burkina Faso were carried out in 2008 which provided further information. This report … Many lessons have been identified from WANI’s work carried out in the Volta basin. The main lessons are: 1. Alignment of …
Acting Now!
… work areas of the Partnership have business plans setting out objectives, targets and priorities for action. The … States Environmental Protection Agency Objective: Phase out mercury in products and eliminate releases during product … dental recyclers and national authorities shows that phasing down dental amalgam will require: • Raising awareness …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… in the current rate of biodiversity loss. In setting out how this can be achieved within the context of … and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. Although the … this limited remit, it was clearly not feasible to carry out comparative analyses of different methodologies or to …
Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants
… that a special effort may sometimes be needed to phase out certain chemicals for certain uses and seeks to ensure … PCBs but give countries until 2025 to take action to phase out the use of equipment containing PCBs. The recovered PCBs … of aldrin, dieldrin and heptachlor – and to carry out limited further production of chlordane, …
UNEP. The first 40 years
… was a wonderfully appropriate setting for what would turn out to be a transforming event not just for the United … forest management and expansion of forested areas; phasing out CFCs; and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases … damage and inefficiencies in the global economy, and phasing them down or phasing them out would generate multiple …
Champions of Water Governance - Leadership building for local to transboundary water cooperation
… Governance Programme (BRIDGE, currently in phase 3) set out to do something quite new: to facilitate the development … learning; 4) facili- tating dialogue and 5) carrying out demonstration on the ground. The concept of leadership … ership in water resources governance. BRIDGE thus set out to do something quite new: to facilitate the devel- …
Moving towards effective implementation
… and releases of mercury • Definitions (article 2) – sets out definitions used in more than one Article of the … products in part 1 of Annex A after the phase out date Under certain conditions (de minimis level), … in process listed in part 1 of Annex B after the phase out date Parties shall take measures to restrict the use of …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… disaster reduces every time, which enables them to `break out’ of the event cycle and progress/spiral upwards towards … Box 1: Marine Protected Areas in Sri Lanka Studies carried out in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Tsunami, noted that in … been a small number of collisions and groundings, with 5 out of 26 ‘major’ oil spills recorded in Australian waters …