The handbook provides material for teaching and learning how to keep islands clean of waste and incorporates principles of Education for Sustainable Development, which seeks to focus on changing behaviors to achieve a more sustainable future.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has published an interoperability strategy for the next generation of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA). The document paves the way toward implementing and scaling up the semantic web vision while taking open science to the next level.
The Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP) assessment provides an improved evidence base to support policy and management decisions on measures that might be adopted to reduce the input of microplastics to the oceans.
This report provides an update and further assessment of the sources, fate and effects of microplastics in the marine environment.
This report provides resources to create national and community-level awareness campaigns to inform and positively influence community attitudes, behaviours and beliefs around waste management, chemicals management and other activities that contribute to the generation of unintentional persistent organic pollutants.
This document provides guidance on the procedures that should be followed when exporting or importing used lubricants and used oil in order to comply with the international conventions that govern the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes in the Pacific region.
The guidance provides a conceptual and methodological framework that countries may apply, adapt and consider as they develop integrated national waste management strategies.
The document presents key messages to highlight the human rights obligations and responsibilities of States and other duty-bearers, such as businesses, to prevent and remedy the harmful effects of hazardous substances.
The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean (BCRC-Caribbean) developed this Training Manual on the Environmentally Sound Management (ESM) and Disposal of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
This document provides guidelines to support the credible use of natural climate solution credits by corporates, covering demand-side eligibility, supply-side quality criteria and market infrastructure.