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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Dec. 1991. 

Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (CICADs) are published by the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) — a cooperative programme of the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). CICADs have been developed from the Environmental Health Criteria documents (EHCs), more than 200 of which have been published since 1976 as authoritative documents on the risk assessment of chemicals. 

Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EU (CIAA) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Industry as a Partner for Sustainable Development, Food and Drink, United Kingdom, 2002. 

UNEP (2007) E-waste volume II E -waste management manual. Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, International Environmental Technology Centre, Osaka. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)... 

UNEP (2009) Basel convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). http //www. basel.int/. Accessed 15 July 2011... 

Degens, E.T. (ed.), 1982. Transport of carbon and minerals in major world rivers, Part. I. Proceedings of a workshop arranged by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at Hamburg University, March 8-12, 1982. SCOPE/UNEP Sonderband Heft 52. Palaontologischen Institut der Universitat Hamburg. 

The Stockholm Convention is a global treaty committing the international community to protecting human health and the environment from the potentially harmful effects of POPs (UNEP Chemicals, 2005). The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has identified 12 most toxic POPs (the Dirty Dozen ) for control under the Convention, including 10 intentionally produced POPs pesticides/industrial chemicals (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), mirex, toxaphene and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)) and two unintentionally produced POPs by-products (polychlorinated dibenzo-/ -dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs)). In implementing the Convention, Parties to the Convention will take measures to restrict the trade, production and use of the intentional POPs and to reduce and, where possible, to ultimately eliminate the production and release of the unintentional POPs by-products. 

In 1997, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council decided that immediate international action should be taken to protect human health and the environment. International negotiations to reduce and eliminate the emission and discharges of an initial set of 12 POPs were initiated at the Stockholm Convention on POPs in May 2001. The 12 substances that were addressed at the Stockholm Convention were aldrin, endrin, dieldrin, dichlorodiphenyltrichoroethanes (DDTs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), chlordane, toxaphene, heptachlor, hex-achlorobenzene (HCB) and mirex. Basic information and status of major organochlorine pesticides in China are summarized in Table 8.1. 

In land-based mammals of India most of the works were carried out in the animals which are normally used as food by humans. For example Seth and Kaphalia (1983) found low levels of DDTs and high levels of HCHs in the slaughter house samples. Another Indian study (Nigam et al., 1998) found 10-33 pg kg-1 DDT and 10-295 pg kg-1 HCH in food animals. Some of these have been reviewed by the Global Environmental Facility under the umbrella of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP Chemicals, 2002). There are many other data available on the mammalian food animals and their products from India and we will give a brief account under Section 9.7 of this chapter. 

At the UN World Summit in 2002, Responsible Care received the World Summit Business Award which the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) s organises in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). And, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Responsible Care was praised as an example of a successful global partnership. 

These considerations are supported by the experience made within the Montreal Protocol. Part of the success, as presented by Rajendra Shende, Head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) s OzonAction Unit, at the Brussels Roundtable, was due to the fact that the protocol supports its NFPs in networking with other regional groups. Further the protocol successfully cooperates with NGOs, e.g. the EIA. 

The Asia-Europe Environment Forum (ENVforum) is a platform for dialogue and debate on sustainable development and the environment issues in Asia and Europe. The series is organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF-Indonesia), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES-Japan) with support of the government of Japan, the Swedish Environmental Secretariat for Asia (Sida-SENSA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 

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