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Hazardous Waste
Emerging
issues
 Weapons
as wastes
Implementing
the Basel Convention
Major
Assessments
 GESAMP
Estimates
of Oil Entering the Marine Environment from Sea-based Activities 
GESAMP
(IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/ WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific
Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection), 2007
As part of the global effort to reduce oil inputs into the marine environment
from ships and other sea-based activities, an independent detailed
assessment of inputs from the various sources is periodically required.
This has been conducted previously (GESAMP 1976, 1993; MEPC 1990; the National
Research Council in the United States (NRC) 1975, 1985, 2003; amongst others).
In the late 1990s, the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of
IMO requested GESAMP to evaluate carefully all available data sources on
oil inputs into the marine environment from sea-based activities (i.e. maritime
transportation, offshore exploration and production), and particularly to
develop approaches
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THE
REVISED GESAMP HAZARD EVALUATION PROCEDURE FOR CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES CARRIED
BY SHIP
GESAMP
(IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/ WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific
Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection)
IMO; 2002. London. Rep. Stud. GESAMP: No.64, 126 pp. Pub. no. 491/01,
ISSN 1020-4873, ISBN 92-801-5131-2
This report provides an updated set of criteria for evaluating the hazards
of chemical substances that may enter the marine environment through operational
discharge, accidental spillage, or loss overboard from ships. |
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UN
UNEP
Vital
Waste Graphics
UNEP, 2004. The Basel Convention,
GRID-Arendal and GRID-Europe. ISBN: 82-7701-028-1.
The aim of the
publication is to provide an overview of relevant waste-related
issues
in a user-friendly manner. Different aspects are discussed,
including definitions of waste, generation of waste,
waste streams, transport and trade issues, cross-cutting
themes linked to sustainable development such as climate
change and poverty, as well as hopes and solutions. |
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Case
Study on the recovery of Hazardous Wastes in Estonia
at an Oil Shale Distillation Unit in Narva
UNEP/Secretariat for the Basel Convention,
1997 |
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Environmental
Hazards of War: Releasing Dangerous Forces in an
Industrial World
PRIO/UNEP, 1990 |
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Indicators
Links and Resources
UN resources
Agenda
21, Chapter 20
FAO
Pesticide Disposal
GESAMP
UNEP/Basel
Convention
Non-UN resources
Africa
Stockpiles Programme
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