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A training manual for managers, supervisors and students from public or private enterprises or development projects of a general nature which may have some impact on the...

A WHO Task Group on Environmental Health Criteria for Lead met in Geneva from 29 April to 5 May 1975. The Task Group reviewed and revised the second draft criteria document and...

In this issue: 1. OzonAction second global inter-regional meeting, ‘Join the Experts’ sessions and parallel networks meetings for national ozone officers 2. Ms. Inger Andersen...

Stories told by the people behind the Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) UNEP/GEF project: “Women who are breast feeding their first-born are...

Unprecedented and historic forest fires have been raging across the world in the previous weeks. Flames have been engulfing forests from California to Siberia and Indonesia...

The key highlights of this month’s issue include: State of global environmental governance 2021; Health in the global environmental agenda; State of finance for nature; Failure...

This is a compilation featuring a selection of publications and reports produced by UNEP from July to December 2021.

The Regional Advisory Team (BAT) of the UNEP Regional Office in Bangkok was organized to help provide advisory services to the countries. in the ESCAP region. As such it...

The Medium-Term Strategy outlines the contribution of UNEP to the 2030 Agenda and the decade of action during the period 2022‒2025, with a 2050 outlook on planetary...

This document presents the programme of work for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the biennium 2022-2023, along with the associated budget. The programme of...

The resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) took place in Nairobi in a hybrid format, from 28 February to 2 March 2022. The theme for UNEA-5,...

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...

Climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste –evidence that Earth is “code red” is all around us and growing more ominous every day. At the same time,...

The Framework Manual introduces, in a structured way, various facets of green and sustainable chemistry, with the intention to foster learning, reflection and scale up action...

The UN Environment Assembly, the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment, will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme...

Mercury pollution has become a global environmental issue in recent years; however, awareness in families and communities is still weak. The most basic, important and difficult...

This third manual focuses on WEEE/E-waste collection, transport and the financial mechanisms for funding these efforts.It is intended to build the capacity of practitioners and...

The present Reference Method is designed to provide a set of guidelines to assist in pollution and public health to design and implement monitoring programmes based upon the...

Environmental protection often Involves Costs to the enterprise. In the first four units, we have analysed the reasons why these costs must be accepted, how to minimize them,...

This Supplementary Volume to the "Guidelines for Assessing Industrial Environmental Impact and Environmental Criteria for the Siting of Industry" gives a compilation of...