Chemicals and Waste Management Programme

UNITAR's Chemicals and Waste Management Programmes provides institutional, technical, and legal support to governments and stakeholders to develop sustainable capacity for managing dangerous chemicals and wastes. Project activities take place within the framework of implementing international agreements (such as SAICM, Stockholm Convention, and Rotterdam Convention) aimed at protecting human health and the environment, while ensuring sustainable industrial development and facilitating the trade of chemicals. The UNITAR approach to capacity building supports a country-driven programmatic and integrated approach to chemicals management, as endorsed at the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) in Dubai, February 2006.
 
Integrated National Programmes and SAICM Implementation
Specialised Training and Capacity Building
Overview
SAICM Implementation
National Profile Development
National Priority Setting
Action Plan Development
Integrated National Programmes
Overview
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
Risk Management Decision Making
Mercury
What's New
 
Knowledge Sharing
UNITAR side-event “Supporting SAICM Implementation: pilot projects, new guidance materials, and related activities”, 16 July 2008, 2nd African Regional Meeting on SAICM, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Development of an Action Plan to Address Primary Mercury Mining in Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia included as fifth SAICM Country Pilot Project
Forty-two countries/entities funded by SAICM Quick Start Programme Trust Fund to undertake SAICM enabling activities with UNITAR technical support
Introduction to the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), Side Event, 11 June 2008, Third meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention, Riga, Latvia
Regional Workshop on Chemical Hazard Communication and GHS Implementation for Countries of ECOWAS, 13-15 May 2008 in Abuja, Nigeria
UNITAR CWM Activities Related to Mercury
Second Edition of the Chemical Hazard Communication and GHS Capacity Building Library now available online
Second Meeting of the WSSD Global Partnership for Capacity Building to Implement the GHS, 12 July 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
Guidance for "Developing a Capacity Assessment for the Sound Management of Chemicals and National SAICM Implementation" now available
GHS Conference for ASEAN: Implementation Towards 2008 and Beyond, 9-11 May 2007, Jakarta, Indonesia
Joint Pilot Project between the Rotterdam Secretariat and UNITAR on Implementation of the Rotterdam Convention Two New Pilot Countries Added
The GHS Roster of Experts - a database of individuals available to provide support on training and capacity building activities on the GHS - is now online
 
 
Series of Thematic Workshops on Priority Topics of National Chemicals Management Capacity Building
PRTR Virtual Classroom
Capacity Building Libraries
National Profile Homepage
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