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| Title: | Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Basel Convention is committed to protecting human health and the environment against adverse effects resulting from the generation, movement and management of waste. Current activities cover a broad range of issues including the health and environment [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.basel.int/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Build national capacities to assess, design and implement policies that maximize the development gains from trade-related policies in the agricultural sector while minimizing the impact on agricultural biodiversity (2005/5-2009/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | The initiative is aimed at building national institutional and governmental capacities to identify and quantify the environmental, social and economic effects of trade-related production and consumption patterns and other policies impacting the agricultural [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.ch/etb | ||||||||
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| Title: | Capacity Building support to nine countries on Sustainable Trade and Poverty Reduction (2004/1-2006/12) | ||||||||
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| Description: | The objective of the initiative was to assist countries to use integrated assessment and planning as a tool for balancing environmental, economic and social objectives and relating them to poverty reduction and trade enhancement. Capacity building [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.ch/etb | ||||||||
| Title: | Capacity building for Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agriculture in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) (2005/7-2007/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | Organic agriculture (OA) is a unique production system which offers a range of environmental, social and economic benefits for developing countries. To reap the multifaceted benefits of OA, however, governments must create an enabling environment that [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf | ||||||||
| Title: | Clean Air Initiative (CAI) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Bank | ||||||||
| Description: | The Clean Air Initiative (CAI) advances innovative ways to improve air quality in cities by sharing knowledge and experiences through partnerships in selected regions of the world. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.cleanairnet.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Cleaner Production (CP) Programme (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme -UN Industrial Development Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | The cleaner production (CP) programme aims at building national CP capacities, fostering dialogue between industry and government and enhancing investments for transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies. Through this programme, UNIDO [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unido.org/cp | ||||||||
| Title: | Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP) (1999-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | CLASP Secretariat | ||||||||
| Description: | CLASP serves as the world's primary international voice and resource for energy efficiency standards and labeling (S&L) worldwide. CLASP facilitates the design, implementation, and enforcement of energy efficiency standards and labels for appliances, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.clasponline.org/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Designing Country Profiles on Sustainable Energy Development (2002/8-2008/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Atomic Energy Agency | ||||||||
| Description: | The major objective of this initiative is to design and implement a comprehensive and forward-looking approach that will allow the overall assessment of a country's energy system following a sustainable development approach. With this approach, overall [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/Pess/3-e_countrycasestudies.shtml | ||||||||
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| Title: | Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE) (1987/1-2008/9) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Energy Agency Energy Technology Data Exchange | ||||||||
| Description: | ETDE is an Implementing Agreement under the International Energy Agency (IEA). Through its member countries and international partners, ETDE provides an extensive bibliographic database (plus full text links) announcing published energy research and technology [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.etde.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Enhancing National Capacities in Madagascar, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Vietnam to assess Wildlife Trade Policies in Support of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (2006/1-2007/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch -UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | Objective: Production and consumption patterns are a major threat to biodiversity. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was created to help devise wildlife trade polices that ensure safety of endangered [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.ch/etb | ||||||||
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| Title: | Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) (1994-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc. | ||||||||
| Description: | The Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) is a non-profit association of third-party, environmental performance labelling organizations founded in 1994 to improve, promote, and develop the "ecolabelling" of products and services. The mission of the GEN [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.gen.gr.jp/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Guidelines and Indicators for the Development of National Strategies on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) (2006/11-2008/11) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Second International Expert Meeting on the Marrakech Process (September 2005, Costa Rica) requested the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) to develop non-prescriptive [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unep.fr/pc/sustain/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of Transport (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | HIA aims at studying upstream health determinants in an integrated way rather than concentrating on single risk factors. HIA's overall objective is to provide decision-makers with sound information on implications on health of any given policy. The health [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.euro.who.int/transport/HIA/20021009_3 | ||||||||
| Title: | Healthy Cities Programme (Europe) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The WHO Healthy Cities approach gives comprehensive policy and planning solutions to urban health problems. Healthy Cities engages local governments in health development, through a process of political commitment, institutional changes and capacity building [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.who.dk/healthy-cities | ||||||||
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| Title: | ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Council for Local Environment Initiatives | ||||||||
| Description: | The ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments implementing sustainable development. Its mission is to build and serve a worldwide movement of local governments to achieve tangible improvements in [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.iclei.org/about.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | IFCS - Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (1995/4-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety | ||||||||
| Description: | The Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS) is a mechanism to develop and promote strategies and partnerships among national governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. The purposes of the Forum are: provide policy guidance; [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.ifcs.ch | ||||||||
| Title: | Integrated Product Policy (IPP) (2001-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | European Commission | ||||||||
| Description: | Integrated Product Policy (IPP) seeks to minimise the environmental degradation caused by all products, whether from their manufacturing, use or disposal, by looking at all phases of a products's life-cycle and taking action where it is most effective. The [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ipp/home.htm | ||||||||
| Title: | International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | Provides expert advice and technical assistance on chemical safety issues. The two main roles are to establish the scientific basis, using health and environment risk assessment, for safe use of chemicals, and to strengthen national capabilities for chemical [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.who.int/pcs/ | ||||||||
| Title: | International Solar Energy Society (ISES) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Solar Energy Society | ||||||||
| Description: | The International Solar Energy Society (ISES) is a global network of industry, individuals and institutions in support of the advancement, research and utilization of renewable energy technologies world-wide. Representing some 30,000 members globally, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.ises.org | ||||||||
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| Title: | Joint UNEP-University of McGill Masters Programme on Integrated and Environmental Impact Assessment (2006/1-2007/6) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective of this joint programme is to develop an international pool of trained experts in disciplines related to trade, environment, integrate assessment, and sustainable development. Launch of Masters programme in collaboration with McGill University, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.mcgill.ca/nrs/graduate/environment/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Kitakyushu Initiative for a Clean Environment (2000-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific | ||||||||
| Description: | The primary objectives of the Kitakyushu Initiative is to conduct a comprehensive assessment of state of the environment and sustainable development policies in the Region; reviewing the implementation of Agenda 21, international environmental conventions [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unescap.org/esd/environment/kitakyushu/index.asp | ||||||||
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| Title: | Life Cycle Initiative (2002/4-2010) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Environment Programme - Division for Technology, Industry and Economics | ||||||||
| Description: | The first phase of the Life Cycle Initiative (LCI) started in 2002 and was completed in 2006. The aim was to promote life cycle thinking worldwide. Three programs were established: Application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and life cycle thinking development, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/lcinitiative/home.htm | ||||||||
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| Title: | OECD Work Programme on Sustainable Consumption (1997-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The OECD Work Programme on Sustainable Consumption provides new data and analysis to help countries reduce the environmental impacts from household consumption patterns. It combines empirical studies of consumption trends in OECD countries with conceptual [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34331_1_1_1_1_1,00.html | ||||||||
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| Title: | Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Development Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | UNDP's Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) facility supports the development of innovative public-private partnerships at the local level. Focusing on assisting small and medium-sized cities, PPPUE works with all potential stakeholders, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.undp.org/ppp/about/index.htm | ||||||||
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| Title: | Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) (1995-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | It is a facility for building capacities in urban environmental planning and management. The programme is founded on broad-based cross-sectoral and stakeholder participatory approaches. It contributes to promoting urban environmental governance processes, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/sustainablecities/default.asp | ||||||||
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| Title: | Transport, Environment and Health Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) (2002/7-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | THE PEP provides a cross-sectoral framework for promoting policy integration and sustainable transport development, in particular in urban areas. Its capacity building, awareness raising and information sharing activities aim at bringing particular benefits [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.thepep.org | ||||||||
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| Title: | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (1992-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat | ||||||||
| Description: | The Convention sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle climate change. It establishes an objective and principles and spells out commitments for different groups of countries according to their circumstances and needs. It also [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://unfccc.int/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Workshops and Seminars to Build Capacity for Promoting Production and Trade of Organic Agriculture (2006) (2006/1-2006/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UNEP-DTIE Economics and Trade Branch | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective is to facilitate vibrant and continuous national and regional multistakeholder dialogue among all relevant parties, including representatives from the ministries of agriculture, environment and trade, farmers, exporters, NGOs, research institutions, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf | ||||||||
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| Title: | ZERMEG - Zero Emission Retrofitting Method for Existing Galvanising Plants (2002/1-2010/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | STENUM GmbH | ||||||||
| Description: | ZERMEG (zero emission retrofitting of galvanizing plants) aims at zero emission galvanizing. It gives a method to identify all options (organisational and technological) to reduce water consumption and use of chemicals by systematically calculating the [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.zermeg.net | ||||||||
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