Browsing Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies by Subject "MEDICAL WASTES"
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Environmental Dimensions of Antimicrobial Resistance - Summary for Policymakers
(2022-02)For decades antimicrobials have contributed to the reduction of infectious diseases in humans, animals and plants, saving lives and increasing productivity. Their effectiveness is now in jeopardy. Antimicrobial resistance ... -
Human Rights, the Environment and COVID-19 - Key Messages: Human Rights at the Heart of Response
(2020)The COVID-19 crisis reveals a clear truth about catastrophic risk in an increasingly globalized world: an effective response requires immediate, ambitious and evidence-based preventive action at the international level. ... -
UNEP key messages on COVID-19 - Latin America and the Caribbean
(2020)This document serves as an outline for UNEP´s insight on the environmental dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the interconnected nature of all life on this planet. -
Waste Management as an Essential Service in Latin America and the Caribbean: Articulating Social and Environmental Policy for the post-COVID-19 Recovery - Policy Brief
(2020)Governments need to consider waste management as an urgent and essential public service to respond to emergencies such as the COVID-19 outbreak, in order to minimize possible secondary impacts upon health and the environment. ...