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List of Publications
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UNEP Manuals on Green and Sustainable Chemistry [Infographic]
(2023-01)This 2-page infographic provides an overview of key UNEA resolutions, as well as information on UNEP’s Green and Sustainable Chemistry: Framework Manual and the Ten Objectives and Guiding Considerations for Green and ... -
UNEP Publications July-December 2022
(2023-01)This document features documents published by UNEP between July and December 2022. -
Establishing an Independent Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI)
(2023-01)In October 2021 UNEP, together with the Church of England Pensions Board and the Council on Ethics of the Swedish AP Funds (on behalf of PRI) announced the creation of a multi-stakeholder advisory panel to support the ... -
Sustainable Supply Chains and Deforestation: The Landscape of Trade Policy Initiatives and Emerging Issues
(2022-12)This presentation provides a summary of the trade related aspects linked to sustainable supply chains and deforestation, developed in the context of the UK GCRF Trade, Development & the Environment Hub project ( TRADE Hub). ... -
Asia Pacific Regional Ozone2Climate Art Contest [Honorable Mentions]
(2022-09)On the occasion of World Ozone Day (16 September), commemorating the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, UNEP and its partners were pleased to announce the 36 artists who won the “Asia Pacific ... -
Asia Pacific Regional Ozone2Climate Art Contest [Winners]
(2022-09)On World Ozone Day (16 September), commemorating the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, UNEP and its partners were pleased to announce the 36 artists who won the “Asia Pacific Regional Ozone2Climate ... -
Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML) - Framework Document
(2021-06)The Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML) is a multi-stakeholder partnership which provides a unique mechanism to bring together all actors working on marine litter and plastic pollution prevention, in order to share ... -
What is the Right to a Healthy Environment? - Information Note
(2022)This Information Note aims to improve understanding of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment and why it matters. Further, the note traces the origins of this right, describes its key elements and ... -
Training Package for Mercury Monitoring to Enhance National Capacity to Generate Internationally Comparable Scientific Data
(2022-10)The training package on monitoring intends to support the Parties and the stakeholders to enhance mercury monitoring and analytical capacity. Lecturers or trainers may use it for their teaching material. Also, it enables ... -
Terms of Reference: Technical Advisory Group
(2022-09)The Technical Advisory Group is a pool of individual experts in the region who are individually and/or collaboratively contributing technical inputs to the project or partner countries as needed. -
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 ... -
The Role and Experience of Women in Plastic Waste Management
(2022-12)This sector is operated on unregulated, purely market driven demand and supply, and often employs thousands of individuals in any urban context. Women constitute a sizeable portion of the informal plastic waste management ... -
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Gender and Medical Waste in the Time of COVID-19
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Gender and Waste Management: Did You Know…?
(2022-12)Contents: 1. Waste is not necessarily a gender-neutral concept. 2. Women may have different needs and preferences on waste management services. 3. There is a clear gender division of labour in the waste sector. 4. Women’s ... -
Global Partners of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) - Declaration
(2022-12)Global Partners of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) declaration form -
Glyphosate - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)Glyphosate is an organophosphorus herbicide for agricultural, forestry and residential weed control that kills or suppresses all plant types, with the exception of those genetically modified to be tolerant to it. Since its ... -
Neonicotinoids - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)Neonicotinoids are a class of neuroactive insecticides chemically related to nicotine. Since the first neonicotinoid (imidacloprid) was commercialized in the 1990s, seven main compounds (acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, ...