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Green Economy is attracting the attention of policy-makers, stakeholders, and business agents from around the world. The number of countries developing and implementing green economy strategies is growing.
But do you know what green economy means in practice? Or what are the approaches to ensure successful green economy policies?, The PAGE Introductory Learning Materials on Green Economy are organized around 40 key topics and contain easily digestible knowledge on a number of green economy issues. They are available in PowerPoint and PDF format with detailed speakers’ note...
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The Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) brings together nine UN and multilateral organizations that aim to strengthen international cooperation on chemical safety and improve coordination of their own chemicals-related policies and activities through the IOMC.
The IOMC Toolbox for Decision Making in Chemicals Management Project is a logical response to increasing needs and demands from policymakers working within developing and transitional economies. The toolbox was developed to provide an easy, web-based access to a consolidated libr...
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Intergovernmental Organizations
Arctic Council
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Global Information Network on Chemical Safety (GINC)
Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)
Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
World Health Organization (W...
On the 12th and 13th of March 2020, the Environmental Affairs Department (EAD) of Malawi, in collaboration with UNDP Malawi and UN CC:Learn, launched the UN CC:Learn project and held the National Planning Workshop. The two-day event built on the experiences from the development and implementation of Malawi’s 2013 National Climate Change Learning strategy with an opportunity to learn from other partner countries and has further strengthened the partnership between Malawi and UN CC:Learn, which dates back to 2012.
The workshop contributed with new ...
6 October 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - Climate change is a global issue that requires targeted, adaptable, and tailored solutions. A solution that works well in one country, may not necessarily work as well in another country or region. This was evident at the recent Youth Climate Dialogue which brought together high school students from six countries as part of UNITAR’s 60th Anniversary celebrations.
What would the ideal solutions be for France, Japan, Kenya, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates?
That’s what students from six different sch...
27 July – 30 July 2020 | Budapest, Hungary
This course is organized by the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) agencies UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP, ILO, and UNITAR in cooperation with the Central European University (CEU).
In many countries, industrial production and consumption patterns outpace the renewal capacity of natural resources and governments' capacity to manage waste products. These trends in resource use and energy consumption indicate that current forms of industrial production are not sustainable in the long run, and risk undermining the social and economi...
Paulo José Porta Bedón, Director, Dirección de Control de la Contaminación y Sustancias Químicas Lima, Peru Paulo Porta, Director of the Pollution and Chemical Substances Control Directorate at the Ministry of Environment, Peru, and his team have played a key role in the formulation of the Ley de Gestión Integral de Sustancias Químicas in Peru, as well as its regulation. His unit deals with two main branches: pollution control and chemicals management. It is in relation to this second area that Paulo has participated in UNITAR training courses and has worked...