Factsheets, Infographics and Brochures: Recent submissions
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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, ... -
Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(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. -
Lead in Paint - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)Lead is a metal and a multi-system toxicant for which no safe level of exposure has been identified. One major source of exposure, particularly for children, is through lead paint, or paint to which lead compounds have ... -
Lead - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)Lead is a toxic metal that occurs naturally in the Earth’s crust. It may exist in both inorganic and organic forms. The current global uses of lead are in batteries, rolled and extruded products, pigments and other product ... -
Arsenic - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)A two-page summary of the information on arsenic contained in the 2020 UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues Posing Risks to Human Health and the Environment and the 2019 Global Chemicals ... -
Cadmium - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)A two-page summary of the information on cadmium contained in the 2020 UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues Posing Risks to Human Health and the Environment and the 2019 Global Chemicals ... -
Lessons Learned from Past Special Programme Projects
(2022-12)Compendium of lessons learned from past special programme projects -
Actors of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) - Declaration
(2022-12)Actors of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) declaration form -
Supporting Partners of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) - Declaration
(2022-12)Supporting Partners of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) declaration form -
Organotins - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)A two-page summary of the information on organotins contained in the 2020 UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues Posing Risks to Human Health and the Environment and the 2019 Global Chemicals ...
