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December 2020

Barriers, Challenges, and Opportunities for Chemical Companies to Set Science-Based Targets

Science Based Targets
This document presents the results of the Science Based Targets initiative’s chemicals sector scoping project with considerations for further target-setting method development. To summarize existing resources and support further work, the document provides an overview of current chemical company science-based targets, a proposed sector boundary for company activities, results of a stakeholder survey, and considerations for further research.
19 January 2021 to 20 January 2021

Global Chemicals Management Towards 2030 and Beyond

On 19-20 January 2021, Chemical Watch is hosting an event "Global Chemicals Management Towards 2030 and Beyond".
March 2015

Chemical Leasing within Industrial and Service Sector Cleaning Operations

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
This report presents key findings on chemical leasing—a business model that decouples the supplier’s income from volume sold, as the customer pays for the results the chemical use generates, not the volume of chemicals used.
4 June 2020
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Safer Use Of Chemicals Can Help Protect Biodiversity

From the smallest parasitic bacterium living in the bladder of a primate to the blue whale - biodiversity refers to the vast variety of life on this planet. But, we are currently in the midst of a biodiversity crisis. Pollution, including from chemicals and waste, is one of the key drivers of global biodiversity loss, found IPBES.
February 2013

Global Chemicals Outlook: Towards Sound Management of Chemicals

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
The "Global Chemicals Outlook: Towards Sound Management of Chemicals" report covers trends and indicators for chemical production, transport, use and disposal, and associated health and environmental impacts; economic implications of these trends, including costs of inaction and benefits of action; and instruments and approaches for sound management of chemicals.
June 2011

Chemical Leasing a Global Success Story: Innovative Business Approaches for Sound and Efficient Chemicals Management

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Chemical leasing is a service-oriented business model that shifts the focus from increasing sales volume of chemicals toward a value-added approach. Chemical leasing forms part of UNIDO’s strategy to assist enterprises globally in a variety of aspects related to green industry.

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International Persistent Organic Pollutants Elimination Networks (IPEN)

IPEN - Establishing Cooperation to Support Chemical Safety Conventions

The International Persistent Organic Pollutants Elimination Networks (IPEN) commits to establish multi-stakeholder cooperation at the regional level to implement the obligations under the Stockholm, Basel and Rotterdam Conventions, contributing to the unification of efforts to reduce exposure to

23 October 2018

Designing a green fiscal regime for the mining sector

Steve Macey
By integrating environmental concerns into the tax system, a green fiscal regime for the mining sector uses the tax system to influence environmental outcomes from mining activities. Such a regime would tax pollutants, water and energy used in the mining project, while reducing taxes on non-polluting inputs such as labour. Such an approach can be an alternative or a compliment to traditional regulatory approaches to protecting the environment
16 March 2020

How ‘leasing’ chemicals can contribute to a cleaner environment

Thomas Jakl
Given that chemicals and waste affect all aspects of development, the sound management of both is key to achieving a number of targets under the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In this blog, Thomas Jakl, the Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Environment of Austria, shares how chemicals can be produced and used in ways that minimize significant adverse impacts on human health and the environment through Chemical Leasing.
May 2020

Sound Chemicals and Waste Management for Sustainable Development

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
This document describes results, lessons, and human impact from selected GEF-funded projects to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and the Minamata Convention on Mercury.

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