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.