Technical Reports

Plastics

Plastics

The oil and gas industry do not offer solutions for building back better once the COVID19 crisis is over. This report deals with the link to plastics industry in this context.

Plastics

Plastics

The report gives the rationale for a new global agreement on plastics, and suggested action points for the global community.

Micro plastics

Micro plastics

A report of a global assessment of sources, fates and effects of mircoplastics in the marine environment.

Nanomaterial

Nanomaterial

The report gives an overview of emerging environmental issues.

Circular economy as part of the performance economy.

Circular economy as part of the performance economy.

The concept of the Performance Economy forms the basis for circular economy. It outlines A) how higher wealth and economic growth can be achieved with considerably lower resource consumption, B) how the value of produced goods can be kept in the system as long as...

Cost of Inaction, EDCs

Cost of Inaction, EDCs

This report is a review and compilation of the estimates of the monetary impacts on health caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden).

EDCs

EDCs

This is a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge on endocrine disrupting chemicals in 2012, commissioned co-jointly by WHO and UNEP.

Nanomaterial

Nanomaterials

Resources on nanomaterials from the UNEP knowledge repository.

IOC assessment

IOC assessment

The Assessment report on IoCs outlines the state of progress in the work with the present 11 IoCs, challenges and opportunities, as well as presents suggestions for how to handle future IoCs.

Concept of Essential Use, PFAS

Concept of Essential Use, PFAS

This peer reviewed article outlines a system for how to assess and rank perfluorinated compounds with respect to phase out or need for society, based on a principle from the Montreal Protocol of the Vienna Convention.

Financing Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste

Financing Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste

The report on Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals beyond 2020 outlines the rationale and the format for a global cost recovery mechanism in line with the polluter pays principle to finance sound management of chemicals globally.

Cost benefit analysis, PFAS

Cost benefit analysis, PFAS

This report is the first systematic review and compilation of the estimates of the monetary value of the unsound management of perfluorinated chemicals, with respect to human health and the environment.

Cost of Inaction on the Sound Management of Chemicals

Cost of Inaction on the Sound Management of Chemicals

The Cost of Inaction Report is the first systematic review and compilation of estimates of the monetary value of the unsound management of chemicals, with respect to human health and the environment.

Toxics Use Reduction

Toxics Use Reduction

Beyond analysis to action. Linking public health, occupational health and safety, environmental sustainability and new or better employment: a position paper.