UN Environment Program

This effort by the OECD is actively supported by other international organizations concerned with chemical safety, as well as by the chemical industry. The Commission of the European Community (CEC), the United Nations International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS), and the International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTQ of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) all send observers to chemical review meetings. The UN wganizations intend to disseminate the final conclusions and recommendations for specific chemicals internationally, beyond OECD member countries. 

United Nations Environment Program-Economic Commission for Europe, Strategies and Policies for Air Pollution Abatement 1994 Major Review Prepared under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, ECE/EBAIR/44.UN-ECE. New York and Geneva, 1995. 

Major areas of harmonization work arose from the United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in 1992, and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Agenda 21, Chapter 19, the blueprint for the environmentally sound management of toxic chemicals under the principles of sustainable development, has guided most international and national chemical-related activities. Chapter 19 is the agreed upon, endorsed international program of... 

Special Features Human rights, labor, and environment. UN Global Compact is a voluntary corporate citizenship program endorsed by more than 1100 corporations worldwide it is the largest CSR initiative in the world. 

UUNE Program. Report of the world commission on environment and development our common future. 1987. Available firom http //www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm. 

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