Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "ELECTRONIC WASTE"
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2050 Electronic and Electrical Waste Outlook in West Asia
This Outlook provides projections for e-waste generation and challenges of managing e-waste in an economically diverse West Asia region. It also provides a stepwise approach for countries to manage e-waste in an environmentally ... -
E-waste Vol. III: WEEE / E-waste “Take-back System”
(2012)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 decision makers to guide and assist them in ... -
E-waste, the Hidden side of IT Equipment's Manufacturing and Use - Environment Alert Bulletin 5
(2005-01)The production of electrical and electronic devices is the fastest-growing sector of the manufacturing industry in industrialised countries. At the same time, technological innovation and intense marketing engender a rapid ... -
Future E-Waste Scenarios
(Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) Initiative; United Nations University; United Nations Environment Programme, 2019)UNU-Vie SCYCLE, StEP Initiative, and UNEP IETC have been working on E-Waste issues greatly and initiated an activity to assess the foresight challenges in the E-Waste stream to develop policy-level discussions on the ... -
The Future of Electric Vehicles and Material Resources: A Foresight Brief
(2020)The main goals of this foresight brief are to: • highlight major opportunities and challenges in the mainstreaming of EVs, • examine the sustainability case of EVs by focusing on material resources, and • offer policy ... -
Gender Responsive Programs: From Inclusion to Transformation - Guidance on how to Mainstream Gender in e-waste and Plastic Waste
The aim of this manual is to help guide programmatic interventions in e-waste and plastic waste management on effectively incorporating gender. It provides simple step-by-step guidance on designing, implementing and ... -
Global Environment Outlook 6 for Industry in Asia-Pacific
(2019)Asia and the Pacific’s unrelenting industrial development has been a driving force in the economic growth of scores of countries in the region and beyond. This shift has led to greater prosperity, increased urbanization ... -
Hazardous Substances in the Life Cycle of Electrical and Electronic Products (HSLEEP) - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)A two-page summary of the information on hazardous substances in the life cycle of electrical and electronic products (HSLEEP) contained in the 2020 UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues ... -
Integrating Displaced Populations into National Climate Change Policy and Planning - Policy Brief
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-08)The Policy Brief highlights the importance of integrating human mobility, including displacement, in the policies and plans of ministries, departments and agencies responsible for climate, environment and development, ... -
Phasing Out of Open Burning of Waste in Africa - Note by the Secretariat - African Ministerial Conference on the Environment. Eighteenth Session
The 10-year implementation plan for 2014–2023 for Agenda 2063 of the African Union has set an ambitious aspiration that by 2023 African cities will recycle at least 50 per cent of the waste they generate. While most African ... -
Recommendations to Improve Women’s Participation and Experience in Plastic and e-waste Management
(2022-12)Increasing interest in formalizing waste systems has highlighted the need to safeguard the workforce, yet there has been little effort undertaken to understand these gendered experiences of waste workers. To effectively ... -
Regional E-Waste Monitor for the Western Balkans
The Regional E-waste Monitor for the Western Balkans report was implemented through a joint partnership between the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the ... -
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Sustainable Digitalization and the Triple Planetary Crisis in West Asia
There are three key environmental crises that are uniquely challenging for the West Asia region, these are the climate change crisis, the pollution, and waste crisis, and the biodiversity loss crisis. Digitalization will ... -
Sustainable Innovation and Technology Transfer Industrial Sector Studies: Recycling - From E-Waste to Resources
(2009)In order to achieve the call ‘From Waste to Resources’, an integrated waste policy and management, which addresses environmental impacts along the whole life-cycle of products, materials and processes, is crucial. According ...