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| Title: | Advisory Support, Information Services and Training (ASIST) Programme (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Labour Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | ASIST - Advisory Support, Information Services and Training Programme promotes strategies for poverty reduction that optimise employment opportunities and local resource utilisation in the provision of sustainable infrastructure and services. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/recon/eiip/asist/ | ||||||||
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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: | Best Practices Database (1996-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Together Foundation -UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | This searchable database contains proven solutions to common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanising and globalising world. Over 2700 practices from 140 countries demonstrate practical ways in which public, private and civil society [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.bestpractices.org/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Collaborative Working Group on Solid Waste Management in Low- and Middle-income Countries (1995-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | SKAT Foundation | ||||||||
| Description: | The CWG network is a forum to encourage interaction between partners on key solid waste management issues and to provide the opportunity for improving the standards and sustainability of solid waste management. It covers the wide range of aspects that [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.skat-foundation.org/activities/ws.htm#cwg | ||||||||
| Title: | Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (1991/2-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The Espoo (EIA) Convention stipulates the obligations of Parties to assess the environmental impact of certain activities at an early stage of planning. It also lays down the general obligation of States to notify and consult each other on all major projects [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/eia/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Database on Economic Instruments and Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management (2000-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | European Environment Agency -Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The OECD and the European Environment Agency have, in co-operation with the European Commission, developed a database on the use of market-based instruments for environmental policy and natural resource management (environmentally related taxes, fees [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.oecd.org/env/policies/database | ||||||||
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| Title: | ECOPROFIT (ÖKOPROFIT) (1992/1-2017/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | STENUM -STENUM GmbH | ||||||||
| Description: | ECOPROFIT (ÖKOPROFIT) is a city based initiative initiated by the city of Graz commissioning STENUM to do a regional cleaner production programme. Each year appr. 15 companies of the city are involved in a series of ten workshops and consulting to identify [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.oekoprofit.at | ||||||||
| Title: | EIB's Corporate Operational Plan 2004-2006 (2004-2006) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations (DESA) | ||||||||
| Description: | As the European Union's financing institution, the European Investment Bank (EIB) provides long-term financing for investment projects furthering economic objectives of the EU in the area of regional development; the promotion of a European knowledge-based [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.eib.org | ||||||||
| 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/ | ||||||||
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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/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Health-Care Waste Working Group (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | This working group is a voluntary coalition to promote safe management of HCW, and finding sustainable solutions. This resource site aims at supporting mainly developing countries in the implementation of safe health-care waste management systems. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.healthcarewaste.org | ||||||||
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| 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: | Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development (ISED) (2002/7-2008/12) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Atomic Energy Agency | ||||||||
| Description: | The goal of this project was to derive a set of energy-related indicators that could present energy, economic, environmental and social data to policy makers in a coherent and consistent form, showing their inter-linkages, and capable of being used for [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/Pess/ISED.shtml | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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| Title: | Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (1997-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Atomic Energy Agency | ||||||||
| Description: | The objectives of this Convention are: (i) to achieve and maintain a high level of safety worldwide in spent fuel and radioactive waste management, through the enhancement of national measures and international co-operation, including where appropriate, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www-ns.iaea.org/conventions/waste-jointconvention.htm | ||||||||
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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: | Municipal Solid Waste Management Training Course for Pacific Island Forum (PIF) Countries (2001-2009) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The objective of this regional training course is to provide technical training to waste management advisers, managers and workers from the PIF countries in order to improve their planning and implementation skills of MSWM strategies, particularly in [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sprep.org/solid_waste/training/index.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: | Pacific Regional Solid Waste Management Strategy (2004-2005) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | This programme followed the endorsement, at the Japan/Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PALM 2003), of the need for developing a Pacific Regional Solid Waste Management Strategy building on the draft Master Plan prepared by the Japanese Government. [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sprep.org/solid_waste/index.asp | ||||||||
| Title: | Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (2003/5-ongoing) | ||||||||
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| Description: | The Kiev (SEA) Protocol, once in force, will require its Parties to evaluate the environmental consequences of their official draft plans and programmes. SEA is undertaken much earlier in the decision-making process than EIA, and it is therefore seen [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/sea/ | ||||||||
| 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: | Shopping for a Better World (2005/9-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | As a key link between producers and consumers, the retail sector is a major driver of production and consumption patterns. Retailers have a great influence on producers, suppliers and consumers and therefore can help contribute to the promotion of sustainability [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.fr/pc/retail | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Waste Management for African Countries (pre 1992-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The project's objective is to strengthen the regional capacity for solid waste management in Africa, through developing waste management programmes that include concepts such as waste minimisation, recycling and reuse, and informal sector micro-enterprises [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/urbansanitation | ||||||||
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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: | Working Group on Waste Prevention and Recycling (WGWPR) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | ||||||||
| Description: | The Working Group addresses and conducts research in waste management including extended producer responsibility (EPR), Environmentally Sound Management (ESM); and holds workshops and issuing recommendations for member states. | ||||||||
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| Title: | Year of Action Against Waste (2005-2006) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The Year of Action Against Waste programme was part of a long term regional program that is aimed at assisting all the Pacific Island member countries of SPREP in addressing their solid waste management issues in an environmentally sound manner. The [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.sprep.org.ws/solid_waste/index.asp | ||||||||
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