Plastics and Circular Economy: Community Solutions
This publication captures the GEF Small Grant Programme's (SGP) experiences and lessons learned on plastics management, spanning not only the area of chemical and waste management, but also international waters and biodiversity conservation.
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Chemicals and Waste
The GEF is charged with eliminating the most harmful chemicals, which are covered by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Minamata Convention on Mercury, and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
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Mission to Minamata
How the GEF is helping reduce and eliminate mercury from the global environment.
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Mercury and the GEF
A review of the GEF activities in reducing mercury contamination.
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GEF Guidance on Emerging Chemicals Management Issues in Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition
In the face of rapid globalization and demand for products, increased trade, expansion of manufacturing into Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition (CEIT), new chemicals, uses, or products, along with an increased awareness of real or potential negative impacts of chemicals, the last two decades has also seen the rapid implementation of a number of regional and international agreements regarding chemicals management, which have focused concerns on the need for a globally effective and sustainable chemicals management process. One particular chemicals management response of note, is the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), which pays particular attention to chemicals, products, uses, releases, or wastes that are currently not under consideration or taken up by existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).
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Selection of Persistent Organic Pollutant Disposal Technology for the GEF
This advisory document lays out guidance on the attributes that technologies should demonstrate when GEF funding is involved.
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Building Partnerships for Sound Management of Chemicals
This publication focuses on the work of the GEF and its partners in bringing the technical resources and capacity of each partner in the network to provide solutions to an array of chemical management issues.