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Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining National Action Plan Global Component
Development of National Action Plans (NAPs) for Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is an obligation under Article 7 of the Minamata Convention on Mercury for each country that determines that ASGM in its territory ... -
Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining Area - UNEP Global Mercury Partnership
(2019)The objective of the Partnership Area is the continued minimization and elimination, where feasible, of mercury uses and releases in ASGM. -
ASGM in Key Biodiversity Areas and Protected Areas
(2024-05)https://www.unep.org/globalmercurypartnership -
Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards - 2022: Fighting Transboundary Crimes that affect the Environment - Information Note
(2022-05)The Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards (hereafter the ‘Awards’) publicly recognize and celebrate excellence in enforcement by government officials and institutions or teams combating transboundary crimes that affect the ... -
Asia Environmental Enforcement Recognition of Excellence 2024: Fighting Transboundary Crimes that affect the Environment - Information Note
(2024-06)The Asia Environmental Enforcement Recognition of Excellence (AEEE) is conferred to individuals and/or government organizations/teams that demonstrate excellence and outstanding leadership in enforcement of national laws ... -
Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Health and Environment - Information Notes
(2023-05)The Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Health and Environment was established in 2004 to address the growing threat that environmental hazards pose to human health. This forum seeks to create greater synergy among relevant ... -
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 ... -
Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sustainable Supply - Factsheet
(2014)Global land use plays a central role in determining our food, material and energy supply. Many countries have started to support the use of biomass for biofuels and biomaterials, and, at the same time, are becoming concerned ... -
Assessing Global Resource Use: A System Approach to Resource Efficiency and Pollution Reduction - Factsheet
(2017)Better and more efficient production and use of natural resources can be one of the most cost-efficient and effective ways to reduce impacts on the environment (including pollution) and advance human well-being. -
Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Factsheet
(2013)Due to increasingly complex products metal recycling in the 21st century is becoming a more challenging business. The report of UNEP’s International Resource Panel on “Metal Recycling – Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure” ... -
Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Infographic
(2013)A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report addresses the challenges of recycling ... -
Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production: priority products and materials - Factsheet
(2010)The assessment report identifies priorities amongst global consumption activities, industrial sectors and materials from primary industries in terms of their environmental impacts and their resource use. This can play a ... -
Assessment and Management of Environmental Pollution (AMEP) - Fact Sheet July 2016
(2016-07)Factsheet for the Pollution sub-programme -
Assessment of existing and future emissions reduction from the coal sector toward the implementation of the Minamata and Stockholm Conventions - GEF project ID: 10748
(2023-10)Project Objective: To demonstrate mercury and persistent organic pollutant (POP) emissions reduction potential from coal-fired power plant (CFPPs) and coal-fired industrial boiler (CFIBs) to support governments in ... -
Assessment Questionnaire - Chemicals and Waste Management Programme
(2022-12)Survey for the independent assessment of closed projects under the special programme. -
Assessment Report on Issues of Concern - Bioactive Substances
(2020-09)Pesticides are widely used biologically active compounds designed to kill target organisms. A number of pesticides have also been shown to cause adverse effects on non-target organisms. -
Assessment Report on Issues of Concern - Chemicals in Products Group 1
(2020-09)An endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) is an exogenous substance or mixture that alters function(s) of the endocrine system and consequently causes adverse health effects in an intact organism, or its progeny, or (sub)populations. -
Assessment Report on Issues of Concern - Chemicals in Products Group 2
(2020-09)Chemicals are important components in many of the products that modern society uses and relies on. They may be released at any stage of a product’s life cycle (including production, use, recycling or reuse, end-of life ... -
Assessment Report on Issues of Concern - Metals and Metalloids
(2020-09)Arsenic is a naturally occurring metalloid that is ubiquitous in the Earth’s crust. It is present in various inorganic and organic forms. Arsenic and arsenic compounds are used intentionally in wood preservatives, pesticides, ...