United Nations Environmental Programme UNEP

The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) represents a third international player in the field of LCA. In 1996, UNEP published an easy to read and user-friendly guide to LCA° and supported several international workshops since then, deahng with various topics in the context of LCA. The launch of the Life Cycle Initiative in 2002 within UNEP further emphasised its importance.°°... [Pg.252]

Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies at Local Level (APELL) United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Reviewed only... [Pg.401]

The Intonational Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC) was established by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), following a recommendation of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockhrdm. [Pg.436]

Chemicals (IRPTC), and the Intematimal Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) of the Intonational Labour Office (ILO), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Other international organizations, such as the European Economic Community (EEC) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) also undertook important activities in the implementation of control measures. [Pg.461]

Anonymous (1983) Umwelt - Weltweit. Report of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) 1972-1982. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin. [Pg.193]

The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), which has done much to legitimise the term cleaner production, launched a number of industry sector working groups in the early 1990s. These include the following which involve chemical processes ... [Pg.13]

G. Sonnemann, M. Buchart, C. Hageliiken, and United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Recycling Rates of Metals A Status Report, A Report of the Working Group on the Global Metal Flows to the International Resource Panel , 2011. [Pg.25]

In contrast, consider the characteristics of HCB. The global Stockholm Convention identifies HCB as a persistent organic pollutant (POP). (We revisit the story of HCB in Chapter 4 after looking briefly here at characteristics that influence its environmental fate and transport.) The half-life of HCB is estimated to range from 2.7 to 5.7 years in surface water and from 5.3 to 11.4 years in groundwater [24]. Laboratory experiments have determined BCF values for fish of up to 21,900 [25]. These characteristics help to explain why, in the words of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), HCB can "remain intact in the environment for long periods, become widely... [Pg.11]

Being aware that. .. POPs pose major and increasing threats to human health and the environment, in May 1995 the Governing Council of [United Nations Environmental Programme] UNEP requested. .. that an international assessment process be undertaken of an initial list of 12 POPs and that the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS) develop recommendations on international action for consideration by UNEP Governing Council and World Health Assembly no later than 1997. [Pg.172]

Under the auspices of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), an international conference of plenipotentiaries meeting in Rotterdam in September 1998 approved a Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international tirade s ll Once ratified by 50 nations, PIC will swing into action and become a major player in international commerce by ensuring that certain listed products can only be exported once the receiving (importing) country, has officially given its Informed Consenf for that importation. [Pg.416]

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