Implementing Agencies of the Multilateral Fund

Ozon Action Programme (UNEP)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

World Bank

Regional Ozone Networks

Regional networks of national ozone units (UNEP)

Regional Ozone Network in Europe & Central Asia

Secretariats

Ozone related

Ozone Secretariat

Fund Secretariat's web site (archive)

Chemicals Management

UNEP Chemicals is the centre for all chemicals-related activities of the United Nations Environment Programme. The goal of UNEP Chemicals is to make the world a safer place from toxic chemicals by assisting governments take global actions for the sound management of chemicals, by promoting the exchange of information on chemicals, and by helping to build the capacities of countries around the world to use chemicals safely.  The web site  include sections on Persistent Organic Pollutants (with a link to the Stockholm Convention site), the Canada POPs Fund,  the Mercury Programme, Lead and Cadmium activities, the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management and links to all chemicals related UNEP publications.

Secretariat for the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

Provides information on the Convention, its Secretariat and associated meetings. Includes meeting documents, reports, publications.

Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent

Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent

Information on the Rotterdam Convention including official documents of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), the Conference of Plenipotentiaries, the Interim Chemical Review Committee (ICRC), the Chemical Review Committee (CRC) and the Conference of the Parties and the PIC Circular.

Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM).

 SAICM - Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management

UNEP Governing Council, at its seventh Special Session in February 2002, adopted a decision on a “Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management” (SAICM).   This web site contains information on  SAICM related meetings and documents pertaining to the SAICM process. 

POPS - The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

The Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (POPs).  POPs are chemicals that remain intact in the environment for long periods, become widely distributed geographically, accumulate in the fatty tissue of living organisms and are toxic to humans and wildlife.  POPs circulate globally and can cause damage wherever they travel.  The web site provides information on the convention, its implementation, official documents and information on meetings.

 UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Provides information on the Framework Convention, its Secretariat and associated meetings. Includes meeting documents, reports, publications and so on.  Also includes access to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM, the Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data and the Technology Information Clearing House.

Other organizations

Global Environment Facility

International organizations in Montreal

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

Convention on Biodiversity

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)