Abstract On 2 March 2022, the United Nations Environment Assembly to Program ( UNEP ) requested Executive Director of convene an international negotiating committee towards negotiation legally binding instrument on plastics by 2024. This article examines some proposed elements such and outlines next steps that can be expected in negotiations. It also reflects results ad hoc open-ended working g...

1. The Executive Secretary is circulating herewith, for the information of participants in the seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), a background paper prepared by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) on on-farm management of crop genetic diversity. This information note supplements the progress report by the Ex...

Basic concepts and philosophy of integrated pest management are presented in order to dispel several misconceptions and to provide the necessary background information for discussion of its relationship to the health-related effects of pesticide use. Implications for human health of current pesticide practices in Central America are examined to illustrate major problems associated with the inju...

Methyl bromide is used extensively on a global basis as a pesticide against nematodes, weeds, insects, fungi, bacteria, and rodents. As a soil fumigant, it is used in significant quantities in the production of strawberry and tomato, as well as other agriculture commodities. Grain, fresh fruit, forestry products, and other materials are fumigated with methyl bromide to control pest infestations...

Reliable observations of the terrestrial environment are of crucial importance to understanding climate change and its impacts, to sustainable economic development, natural resources management, conservation, biodiversity and a scientific understanding of ecosystems and biogeochemical cycling. GOFC-GOLD (GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS OF FOREST COVER AND LAND DYNAMICS) as panel of GTOS (GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL...

The Atlantic humpback dolphin is a small delphinid regionally endemic to the tropical and subtropical eastern Atlantic nearshore waters of West Africa (Culik, 2002; Jefferson et al.). Its status was recently and comprehensively reviewed as part of the CMS/UNEP Wafcet-2 project (Van Waerebeek et al., 2003, 2004). S. teuszii was described in 1892 from a carcass found in Cameroon. Second and third...

The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis third generation atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM3) is described. The discussion summarizes the details of the complete physics package emphasizing the changes made relative to the second generation version of the model. AGCM3 is the underlying model for applications which include the IPCC fourth assessment, coupled atmosphere-oc...

1 Wildlife Research Unit, Laboratorio di Ecologia Applicata, Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, 2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 3 Greena Ecological Consultancy, Cullompton, UK, 4 Urban Ecology & Wildlife Research, Zurich, Switzerland, 5 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Institute for Fores...

There are several international organizations with scientific boards dealing with the problem of food and feed contaminants. Apart the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, Lyon, France) which is focused on carcinogenicity of natural and manmade compounds, there is also a more recently founded (1980) International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), a joint venture of the United N...