Reimagination - Reimagining, exploring and celebrating the changes in infrastructure, politics and culture that will help us live in harmony with each other and the earth now and in the future.
Democracy at Risk: California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's report Top To Bottom Review finds that electronic voting machines supplied by several vendors are subject to hacking and inaccuracies.
Climate Shift - The effects of climate shift on the future of planet earth and its inhabitants.
Convention on Access to Information,
Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice
in Environmental Matters.
Forum III: Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety - Partnership for Global Chemical Safety, 14-20 October 2000, hosted by the Government of Brazil in Salvador, Brazil. This will include a thematic session on PRTRs.
Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health (London, June 1999).
OECD International Conference on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs) (1998).
Environment for Europe (Aarhus, June 1998).
Inter-Organizational Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals - PRTR Coordinating Group - Meeting Notes and Papers.
Organizations
The International Right-To-Know Campaign.
European Environmental Citizens' Organisations (ECOs) Public Participation Campaign.
IHEAL - Interactive Health Ecology Access Links.
OECD's Work on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs).
United Nations Development Programme.
North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
UNEP: Pollutant release and transfer registers.
Reports
(February, 2001) Presentation and Dissemination of PRTR data: Practices and Experiences
Getting the Words and Numbers Out. (Download direct in PDF format here.
World Bank - World Development Indicators 1999 Report.
Taking Stock: North American Pollutant Releases and Transfers, 1996.
OECD Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparation and Response Reports.
Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs): A Tool for Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development - Guidance Manual for Governments.
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Toxic Chemicals Management.
Industrial Releases Within the Great Lakes Basin: An Evaluation of NPRI and TRI Data.
Putting the Pieces Together The Status of Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers in North America.
Taking Stock: North American Pollutant Releases and Transfers, 1995.
Unitar: Guidance Series for Implementing a National PRTR Design Project.
World Bank: New Ideas in Pollution Regulation.
Other Resources
U.S. EPA Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators software includes toxicity
weighted Toxics Release Inventory data for 1988 through 1997.
International Development Network: Information Resources for Sustainable Development.
United Nations Environment & Development-UK Committee.
US EPA Statement about Pollutant Release and Transfer Registries.
Internet
guide for finding chemical information.
UNITAR Training and Capacity Building Programmes in Chemical and Waste Management.
IISD Linkages: Chemical Management.
UNEP Chemicals: the center for all chemicals-related activities of the United Nations Environment
Programme.
Joint UNEP Chemicals/WHO - GEENET Project.
UNEP Persistent Organic
Pollutants (POPs).
OECD's Work on Chemical Accidents: Y2K Issues.
US Chemical Safety and Hazard
Investigation Board.
The International Right-To-Know Campaign.
