The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) was adopted in 2001 with the following objective (Article 1):
Mindful of the precautionary approach as set forth in Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the objective of this Convention is to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants.
In 2019, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, at its 14th meeting, and the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), at its fourth session, noted with concern that the high and rapidly increasing levels of marine litter, including plastic litter and microplastics, represent a serious envir
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The e-Learning course “Nanomaterials Safety” provides interested stakeholders an introduction to the sound management of manufactured nanomaterials. Nanomaterials have a range of novel properties enabling many new, useful applications in areas such as medicine, environment, energy production and material technology.
El Programa de Entrenamiento Sobre Conducción y Sobriedad es el resultado de una asociación entre UNITAR y Pernod Ricard, con el objetivo compartido de contribuir a reducir las lesiones y muertes por siniestros de tránsito relacionados con conductores bajo la influencia del alcohol.
El Programa de Entrenamiento Sobre Conducción y Sobriedad es el resultado de una asociación entre UNITAR y Pernod Ricard, con el objetivo compartido de contribuir a reducir las lesiones y muertes por siniestros de tránsito relacionados con conductores bajo la influencia del alcohol.
This course is based on the Swedish Chemical Agency’s - KemI - publication on “Sustainable financing of institutional capacity for chemicals management”,