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Desalination: Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments
(2008)
The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial‐scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s. Today the worldwide number of ...
Landfill of Hazardous Industrial Wastes: A Training Manual - Technical Report No. 17
(1993)
This is the 17th publications in a Technical Report Series that regroups the Guidelines, Overviews, Technical Reviews, and Workshop Proceedings previously published by UNEP IE/PAC. The regrouping into a single series will ...
Enhancing the Uptake and Impact of Corporate Sustainability Reporting: A Handbook and Toolkit for Policymakers and Relevant Stakeholders
(2019)
Corporate sustainability reporting constitutes an essential lever for the transformation of companies’ practices and for ensuring their contribution to sustainable development. It represents a potential mechanism for ...
PCB Management Guidance: Maintenance, Handling, Transport and Interim Storage of Liquids Containing PCB and Equipment Contaminated with PCB
(2016)
The purpose of this PCB Management Guidance is to support stakeholders engaged in the maintenance, handling, transport and interim storage of liquids containing PCB and equipment contaminated with PCB, taking into account ...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) Inventory Guidance
(2016)
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 1 requires Parties to eliminate the use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in equipment by 2025 and to ensure the environmentally sound waste management of ...
Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Mercury Releases: Reference Report and Guideline for Inventory Level 2 - Version 1.5 November 2019
(2019-11)
This Toolkit aims to assist countries that are developing their mercury inventory to estimate releases of mercury, and also leads them through the process of how to enhance and refine these inventories. The Toolkit’s goal ...
Resource Guide on Training and Technical Assistance Activities of International Organizations Related to the Environmentally Sound Management of Chemicals - First Edition
(1994)
The first edition of the Resource Guide includes training and technical assistance activities conducted by the present IPCS member organizations, ILO, WHO and UNEP and the relevant activities conducted by UNITAR in association ...
Guidance for Conducting a Rapid Environmental Mercury Assessment of Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining Sites: In the Context of National Action Plans
(2019)
The goal of this document is to provide guidance for stakeholders on conducting rapid assessments of mercury contamination risks to the environment and human health from artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM). Such ...
Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India - Low Carbon City: A Guidebook for City Planners and Practitioners
(2013)
This guidebook is produced as part of a larger research project on “Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India”, a major initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), hereafter referred to as the Low Carbon ...
Training Manual for Customs Officers: Second Edition - Saving the Ozone Layer: Phasing Out Ozone Depleting Substances in Developing Countries
(2008)
This training manual provides the guidance and information needed to conduct training programmes for Customs offi cers in developing countries. It should be used together with the complementary “Country Handbook on ODS ...