Members from IMPELs cluster on transfrontier shipments of waste (TFS) participated in a meeting held in Cebu, Philippines, together with representatives from twenty-six countries across Asia-Pacific region, to address the growing challenge in preventing and controlling the international trade in hazardous waste and chemicals.
Maximising upon the severity of the issue, this is a [...]...
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On Monday 12 November 2012, 19 prosecutors from 13 EU Member States and representatives from IMPEL, the Basel Convention Secretariat and Eurojust were welcomed by their colleague and host Antonio Noguera Vercher in the Centro Nacional de Educacion Ambiental (CENEAM) in Valsain, Spain. This was the setting for the first IMPEL TFS Prosecutors workshop on [...]...
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The E-waste Africa Project is a comprehensive programme aiming at enhancing the environmental governance of e-wastes and at creating favorable social and economic conditions for partnerships and small businesses in the recycling sector in Africa. It has been implemented in the framework of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes [...]...
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Waste is increasingly moving across EU borders, for recovery or disposal. This is true for waste shipments between EU countries, and also transfers of waste outside the EU, according to a new assessment from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
More stringent and harmonised waste policies in the EU have led countries to transport more waste [...]...
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This report aims to help environmental and other competent authorities in OECD countries to promote green business practices among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It analyses different ways to establish environmental regulatory requirements for facilities with low environmental risk (most of which are SMEs). It also examines how to design and apply information and market-based [...]...
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The continuing loss of biodiversity – made up of genes, species and ecosystems – is a matter of growing concern in Europe. Yet measuring the extent of the loss and the threat it poses is a huge challenge, a new report from the European Environment Agency says.
In recent years the Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators (SEBI) [...]...
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