Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "WASTE MANAGEMENT"
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An Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues Posing Risks to Human Health and the Environment - September 2020
(2020)This report responds to Resolution 4/8 by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and aims to inform the international community about the current situation of specific issues of concern, based on a review of evidence ... -
Assessment Report on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Palestine 2015: SCP Assessment - SwitchMed Programme
(2016)In Palestine, and according to this analytical study, we have several bright aspects which we can build on and maximize, in addition to many initiatives in terms of legislations and policies, and of practical implementation. -
Axes of Thought for the High-level Segment - Third Conference of the Parties to the Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa
(2019-08-30)The theme of the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (Bamako ... -
Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa - Third Conference of the Parties “From Decisions to Action: Working for Africa with a Safe Chemicals and Waste Future”: Information Note
(2020)Information note on the COP3, held at Centre International Conférence de Kintélé in Brazzaville, Congo Republic. -
Basel Convention 'Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of Waste Consisting of Elemental Mercury and Wastes Containing or Contaminated with Mercury'
(2012)The present guidelines provide guidance for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of wastes consisting of elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated with mercury, pursuant to decisions VIII/33, IX/15 and ... -
Basel Convention Technical Guidelines on Hazardous Waste: Waste Oils from Petroleum Origins and Sources
(2002)These technical guidelines are principally meant to provide guidance to countries who are building their capacity to manage waste in an environmentally sound and efficient way and in their development of detailed procedures ... -
Best Practices of Repatriation of Illegal Waste Shipments from Asia to Europe
(2020)Work package 4 of the WasteForce project (https://www.wasteforceproject.eu/) aims at supporting international operational networking between the EU and the Asia-Pacific region through information-sharing activities and ... -
Burkina Faso: Groupe de recherche et d’analyse appliquées pour le développement
(2017)The main objective is to contribute to the emergence of sanitized cities the municipalities Dédougou and Koudougou based on an integrated and sustainable waste management system through establishment of an integrated and ... -
Burkina Faso: Transformation des déchets ménagers en fertilez agricole [Transformation of Household Wastes into Fertilizers]
(2017)Hygiene and sanitation in urban areas is a struggle without respite because of the challenge of the continuous increase in urban dwellers. The increase in population is synonymous with increased household waste. These ... -
Business Plan of the Mercury Waste Management Partnership Area - March 2020
(2020)This Business Plan describes the main objectives and activities of the Mercury Waste Management Partnership Area of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Mercury Partnership. It serves as a planning and ... -
Business Plans and Partnership Area Summaries of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership: Note by the Secretariat
(23/02/2016)The Overarching Framework of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership sets out a business plan template to provide guidance to the partnership areas in developing the business plans. -
CCET Guideline Series on Intermediate Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Technologies: Composting
(2020)This guideline focuses on the introduction of composting projects based on source separation of organic waste and aerobic fermentation at plants for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management in the cities of developing Asia. ... -
Central & South Asia: Actions Taken by Governments to Improve Air Quality
(2017)This report summarises ten actions being undertaken in the sub-region to improve air quality. In selecting these ten actions, consideration was given to their replicability, global appropriateness to address particular air ... -
Central America: Actions Taken by Governments to Improve Air Quality
(2017)This report summarises ten actions being undertaken in the sub-region to improve air quality. In selecting these ten actions, consideration was given to their replicability, global appropriateness to address particular air ... -
Central Asia Waste Management Outlook
(2017)Central Asia is transforming itself from a region bogged down by mining and industrial waste legacies and poor municipal waste management to a safer and more pleasant place to live through site clean-ups and increasingly ... -
Chemicals and Waste management: Report of the Executive Director
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Chemicals and Wastes management:Report of the Executive Director
(28/11/2012)Report of the Executive Director -
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Annex: Case Studies from Selected Cities
(2013)These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate the abundance of options available that could ... -
Cleaner Production in the Mediterranean Region
(1995)The present report is a very valuable boost for the pioneering efforts in Mediterranean countries to implement cleaner production in our part of the world.