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GEF Global Project on PRTRs

GEF Global Project on PRTRs. Use of SAICM and GEF resources for a common goal. How does a PRTR work?. Data. Access to Information. Sources. Analysis. PRTR Data. PRTR. water. air. soil. Characteristics of a PRTR. Periodicity Multimedia: air, water, soil

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GEF Global Project on PRTRs

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  1. GEF Global Project on PRTRs Use of SAICM and GEF resources for a common goal

  2. How does a PRTR work? Data Access to Information Sources Analysis PRTR Data PRTR water air soil

  3. Characteristics of a PRTR • Periodicity • Multimedia: air, water, soil • Use of common identifiers for chemicals • Information at the facility and location level • Information processed • Access to information to general public

  4. Global GEF project • Project Objective: To demonstrate the utility of PRTRs to comply with Stockholm Convention obligations such as POPs monitoring, report, NIPs updating and information exchange and dissemination. • Participating Countries: Chile, Ecuador, Peru (SouthAmerica), Cambodia, Thailand (Asia), Ukraine and Kazakhstan (Europe). Central American Sub-region: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic. • Outputs: PRTR implementation in Chile and PRTR design in other countries to comply with Stockholm Convention and Identification of lessons learned in each region.

  5. Global GEF Project • Implementing Agency: UNEP • Executing Agency: UNITAR • Total Budget: 3,417,320 USD • GEF Contribution: 950,000 USD • Duration: 2 years

  6. Stockholm Convention Obligations related with PRTRs • Article 5 – Measures to reduce or eliminate releases from unintentional production – action plan development. • Article 7 – Implementation plans, updating and reviewing action plans. • Article 9 – Information exchange: Between Parties and POPs Secretariat • Article 10 – Public information, awareness and education: information on POPs made public, public participation in POPs management, promotion and facilitation provision of information from industry and professional users, estimates annual quantities of POPs released or eliminated. • Article 11 – Research, development and monitoring: Support data gathering, support of monitoring programmes in countries. • Article 15 – Submission of reports: provide statistical dataor estimations on quantities of POPs • Annexes A and B: List of POPs

  7. Pesticide stockpilesand DDT uPOPs POPs fit in PRTRs PRTR Air Water PCBs databases Soil Point and non-point sources

  8. SAICM and GEF • The GEF Global Project has a contribution of 100,800 USD from SAICM directed to Kazakhstan and Cambodia • SAICM activities include upgrading National Chemicals Profiles, development of SAICM development assessment and the organization of a National Priority Setting Workshop

  9. SAICM and PRTRs • The Objectives of the SAICM Overarching Policy Strategy, are oriented to: • (a) Development or updating of national chemical profiles and the identification of capacity needs for sound chemicals management; • (b) Development and strengthening of national chemicals management institutions, plans, programmes and activities to implement the Strategic Approach, building upon work conducted to implement international chemicals-related agreements and initiatives; • c) Undertaking analysis, interagency coordination, and public participation activities directed at enabling the implementation of the Strategic Approach by integrating – i.e., mainstreaming – the sound management of chemicals in national strategies, and thereby informing development assistance cooperation priorities.

  10. Thanks Jorge Ocaña Task Manager POPs PNUMA GEF jocana@chemicals.unep.ch

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