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El Salvador: Initial Assistance to Enable El Salvador to Fulfil Its Obligations Linked to The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
In the framework of the Stockholm Convention which aims to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project will: i) establish the basis for implementing the Convention in El Salvador; ii) assist El Salvador in fulfilling its data declaration and other reporting obligations under the Convention; iii) reinforce El Salvador's national capacity to manage POPs and hazardous chemicals in general.
Support to the Implementation of the National Biosafety Framework of Slovakia
The Overall Goal of the project is that by 2010 the Slovak Republic has a workable and transparent national biosafety framework, in line with its national development priorities and international obligations. The project will help the Slovak Republic: A. To integrate biosafety into the National Biosafety and Biotechnology Policy (NBBP) and National Development Strategy. B. To review and update regulatory regime in line with CP and its national needs and priorities. C.
National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environment Management (NCSA)
The NCSA will review three thematic areas - biodiversity, climate change, and land degradation – and address the linkages between them. There will be particular emphasis on further identifying cross-cutting issues and enhancing synergies among the relevant MEAs and regional initiatives. The NCSA Project also identifies opportunities to reinforce and strengthen existing institutions, mechanisms and processes to create a sustainable institutional framework and process for continuous assessment and improvement of national capacities for effective environmental management.
Support to the Implementation of the National Biosafety Framework
The main purpose of this project is to help Moldova to strengthen the existing institutional and technical structures and infrastructures needed to meet the obligations of the Protocol and have a National Biosafety Framework fully operational by : - The implementation of the Moldova’s legislative framework on the safe use of biotechnology through improvement of the Biosafety law, development of sectorial regulations, guidelines and manuals; - The preparation of specific technical guidelines; - The strengthening of appropriate institutional structures for risk assessment and decision ma
Implementing Pilot Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Coastal Areas of Uruguay
The Project’s General Objective is to promote adaptation measures necessary to protect coastal wetlands and international waters of the Rio La Plata Estuary from the impacts of climate change, through the sustainable use of coastal resources, one of the main environmental assets of the country.
Applying an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries Management: Focus on Seamounts in the Southern Indian Ocean
The pilot project aims to develop a conservation and management framework for biologically- globally significant and commercially-important areas beyond national jurisdiction in the Western Indian Ocean, focusing on seamounts and shallow banks. Due to their typically high biological productivity and diversity, seamounts around the world have long been the target of commercial fisheries. Fishing activities can impact both target and by-catch species of corals, fish and crustaceans and impact the benthic communities of seamounts.
Removal of Barriers to Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation in Buildings
This project is intended to overcome barriers to energy efficiency in buildings in Mauritius and reinforce the development of a market approach to improving residential and non-residential building energy efficiency in both existing stock and future buildings.
Adoption of Ecosystem Approach for Integrated Implementation of MEAs at National and Divisional Level
The project goal was set as: the establishment of an enabling integrated institutional framework to enhance global environmental management in The Gambia, with the specific objectives of: (i) Strengthening the national institutional framework for integrated management of global environmental priorities. (ii) Integrating global environmental issues into divisional level planning and implementation through the application of ecosystem approach.
Safe Management and Disposal of PCBs, Pillar I
The objectives of the project are to develop and implement a PCB management plan, and to enhance the capacity of Morocco to manage and dispose of PCB oils and PCB containing equipment in a sustainable manner once they are deemed waste.
POPs Enabling Activity in Dominican Republic
The objective of the project is to identify means to support the Dominican Republic’s capacity to fulfill its obligations in the context of the Stockholm Convention, including the preparation of a National Implementation Plan focused on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), that will more widely cover aspects important to the safe and environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes, as called for in Chapters 19 and 20 of Agenda 21.
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