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Topic: Chemicals & waste
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The benefits of plastic are undeniable. The material is cheap, lightweight and easy to make. These qualities have led to a boom in the production of plastic over the past century. This trend will continue as global plastic production skyrockets over the next 10 to 15 years.
What we do? The International Environmental Technology Centre focuses on waste management.
This compendium describes information on commercially available or near commercially available technologies and associated techniques for resource recovery from WEEE/e-waste and subsequent treatment of residual wastes.
The City Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan for Mandalay (CWMSAP) gives a long-term vision and guide to Mandalay City Development Committee (MCDC) for its efforts towards transforming from the traditional waste management practices (waste collection and disposal) to more sustainable waste management practices including 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) to achieve a resource-efficient and z
The Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme submits to the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme a report entitled “ Towards a pollution - free planet ”, which describes the challenges posed by global pollution, outlines current efforts to address pollution and suggests 50 actions to tackle the problem.
Central Asia is transforming itself from a region bogged down by mining and industrial waste legacies and poor municipal waste management to a safer and more pleasant place to live through site clean-ups and increasingly effective waste management systems. A lot still remains to be done, but the outlook for the region is much less gloomy than just a few years ago.
This brief summarises the proceedings and outcomes of the 1st CCET Webinar which was held on 25 July 2017 at the Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center in line with the International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP) 2017.
After solid waste generation peaked at 2,000 tonnes per day and the closure of one of the city’s landfills led to waste being piled on the streets, the City of Surabaya started implementing community-based solid waste management.
Since 2010, owing to the sustained and collaborative efforts of a wide range of local and international stakeholders, steady progress has been made in spearheading climate-friendly, community-based solid waste management approaches in Cebu City, Philippines.
The Asia Waste Management Outlook (AWMO), which is regional in nature, is developed to complement the Global Waste Management Outlook (GWMO).
The International Environmental Technology Centre has been implementing the project on Environmentally Sound Management of Mercury since 2015 with funding from the government of Japan. As part of the project results, UN Environment launched the Global Mercury Waste Assessment Report (English) at the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention in September 2017, in Geneva.
This summary report examines the waste management landscape in 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States.
This policy report reviews the current status of waste management in Myanmar and confirms that it remains at a preliminary stage, attributed to challenges at both the national and city levels resulting from a range of technical, social, economic and institutional constraints.
This report reviews the agreements and commitments made by countries in the Monterey Consensus in 2002, Doha Agreement in 2008, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda in 2015 and the SDGs 2030.
The information in this report was based on the information on the implementation of the 188 waste management projects of 17major international organizations.
The purpose of this report is to complement supply with the demand in waste management services around the world, to provide stakeholders opportunities for projects partnerships and to harmonize efforts and avoid duplication. The report highlights projects of international organizations and UN Bodies with focus on, but not necessarily limited to, waste management.
The purpose of this report is to identify the capacity development needs of the different countries in the implementation of waste management. The report also aims to complement supply with the demand for waste management services around the world, to provide stakeholders opportunities for projects partnerships and to harmonize efforts and avoid duplication.
Mountains play an essential role in supplying water, energy, food and other services to millions of people living in the mountains and downstream. Ensuring the continued supply of these services has never been more important.
The development of the tyre industry indicates that almost one billion tyres are manufactured worldwide every year.Nearly almost equal quantity of waste tyres is generated annually. How to deal with this amount of waste tyres has been a challenge to all the countries.
Nepal has ratified number of International Convention and formulated legislation, rules and regulations including the Constitution of Nepal 2015 on environment and waste management issues that can be linked to disaster waste management.
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The mandate of IETC, as agreed in Decision 16/34 of UNEP Governing Council, is the transfer of environmentally sound technologies (EST) to developing countries and countries with economies in transition.