United Nations Documents:

The United Nations Environment Program provides a wide range of resource and reference documents.

These are available from the various Convention websites listed below.

 


Many of the documents are also available in the individual reference section of the Chemicals Convention Handbook or in its general library.
link to   http://www.ntn.org.au/cchandbook/

Individual chemical information is also available from the International Program on Chemical Safety INCHEM website.
link to   http://www.inchem.org

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001)
link to   http://chm.pops.int/

Basel Convention on Control of the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their disposal (1989)
link to   http://www.basel.int
The Basel technical documents can be found at
link to   http://www.basel.int/techmatters/index.html

Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (1998)
link to   http://www.pic.int

Globally Harmonised System for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. (GHS)
link to   http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_welcome_e.html

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation In Decision-Making & Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998) [Aarhus Convention] Documents relating to the Aarhus Convention are available at
link to   http://www.unece.org/env/pp/





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