This case study builds on experiences shared by Africa Mini-Grids Community of Practice (AMG-CoP) members and further explores best practices for community engagement in the design and implementation of mini-grid projects. It draws particularly on recent activities in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
IIED's policy brief, How Climate Finance Can Help Repurpose Hydropower, explores how climate funds facilitate the transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient future, particularly focusing on sustainable hydropower projects.
The report reviews ILO chemicals instruments as regards their content, ratification rate, implementation and highlights. The instruments are then put in the wider context of other international instruments on chemicals such as the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS Conventions) and the Minamata Convention on Mercury as well as current international strategic frameworks which aim at eliminating or at least minimizing chemical hazards on a global scale.
The Technical Background Report to the Global Mercury Assessment 2018 was produced by an international team of experts convened through a collaboration between UN Environment and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). World Health Organization experts contributed to sections dealing with mercury exposure in humans.
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.
This assessment was aimed to provide United Nations regulators, international, regional, national and local decision-makers with predictive knowledge and a management tool on contaminants trends worldwide to support decisions of socio-economic value at all scales. This report contains a detailed description of the established methodology, an overall description of the database, six case studies among the Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs; selected based on geographic distribution and information availability), a global assessment, conclusions, and recommendations.
The purpose of this report is to provide recommendations, advice and practical guidance, for the establishment of programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and abundance of plastic litter, also referred to as plastic debris, in the ocean.
Preventing and reducing plastic pollution is about more than waste management. This report applies a circular economy perspective to plastics and presents frameworks for addressing related sustainability challenges. A shift to a circular economy will require coordinated policy interventions at all stages of the life-cycle of plastics, including: resource extraction and refining, design and manufacture of products, trade and retail, use and reuse, recycling, and final disposal when necessary.
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University of Eastern Finland (UEF) - UN Environment Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements
University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and UN Environment are running a two-week course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements, international environmental law-making, and diplomacy.
This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) proposes a five-phase method to assess the value of storage and create viable investment conditions, to guide storage deployment for the effective integration of solar and wind power.