SAICM
See the SAICM Secretariat website for
regional activities in the GRULAC region
Panama - Regional workshop on development of legal and institutional infrastructures for sound management of chemicals
Ecuador - The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the integration of sound management of chemicals into the national development plan Belize - The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the integration of sound management of chemicals into the national development plan Honduras - The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the integration of sound management of chemicals into the national development plan
Belize- Regional Workshop for facilitating understanding between officials responsible for development planning and officials responsible for chemicals management
Heavy metals
Chile – Hg waste management
Project on environmentally sound management of mercury containing waste
Project on the safe storage of excess mercury
Brazil - Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining projects
POPs
Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Cuba – Dioxin / Furan inventories
Argentina, Chile, Cuba Paraguay – Workshops and training on action plans and estimation of unintentional POPs
Mexico - Emission factors for open burning of waste
Emisiones de dioxinas y furanos por quema incontrolada de biomasa
Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti and Cuba - GMP implementation and to strengthening POPs analysis
Chile - Taller sub-regional “Planes de Acción para PCBs y Dioxinas/Furanos en el Marco del Plan Nacional de Aplicación del Convenio de Estocolmo” (2004)
Trinidad and Tobago - Sub-Regional Workshop on National Inventory of Dioxin and Furan Releases in the Context of the Stockholm Convention, 2003