This report maps the global governance of plastics and associated chemicals, highlighting gaps and synergies, especially with the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, in the context of negotiations for a new international plastics instrument.
This document highlights the urgent need for better waste management and more robust research into long-term impacts.
In order for the European Union to achieve the ambitious targets it has set for the energy and digital transitions and its defence and space agenda, it needs undisrupted access to critical raw materials and to many products which contain them.
The EU assessment of Critical raw materials (CRMs) has been launched as the first action of the EU Raw Materials Initiative (RMI) of 2008. This EU policy pursues a diversification strategy for securing non-energy raw materials for EU industrial value chains and societal well-being.
This paper serves as a background text for the Intergovernmental Regional Consultations held in 2023 by UNEP. These consultations were born, in part, to discuss environmental sustainability and management in the context of increasing demand for minerals and metals.
This report examines the implications of the energy transition on SDGs for countries, in Asia and the Pacific, that currently or could potentially extract and export critical minerals.