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- Cleaning up India's waste: but what is the future for army of tip pickers?
- The Guardian, Jason Burke, 2 July 2012 - New plant may generate power and carbon credits but end hundreds of livelihoods
- E-waste disposal rules come into force
- Times of India, 01 May 2012 - Rules aimed at reduction in use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment by putting the onus of e-waste ...
- Greening the Brown: Decent Work for Waste Workers
- The Island, 29 April 2012 - The ILO-Australia Partnership Agreement/ Green Jobs in Asia project reports on the successful application of occupational safety ...
- Population growth, climate change drive need for urban rethink
- AlertNet, Amantha Perera, 27 June 2012 - Experts, UN officials and activists spoke of how the world’s bulging urban population will need a bigger share of ...
- Rio+20 Dialogues
- The Sustainable Development Dialogues, to be held in Riocentro, between June 16 to 19, in the context of the Rio+20 Conference, is an instrument to convene ...
- Rio+20 Seminar: Gender Equality is Sustainability
- Sustainable development cannot be achieved without equality between women and men. This seminar organized by the Nordic Council of Ministers aims to reaffirm ...
- Rio+20 Voluntary Commitments
- The Rio+20 Secretariat, together with the UN Global Compact and the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, has received over 700 Rio+20 voluntary commitments. ...
- Scavenging for Charcoal Fuel in the Rubbish of Manila
- National Geographic. "Thousands of urban slum dwellers including these in the Ulingan community in the Philippines capital of Manila (map) live amid filth and ...
- Sparking greener economic growth
- Matt Haskins, leader of PwC's Sustainable Business Solutions tax practice, gives a business perspective of Rio
- Waste not, want not: How Dhaka gets growth from trash
- Every day Dhaka’s 15 million residents produce 5,000 tons of waste. Almost half that waste is uncollected, and adds to problems with pollution, disease and ...
- Waste seperation needs top priority
- Value addition to solid waste collection from local government authorities could be promoted as a substantial income source, which would in turn contribute for ...
- Webinar - May 10: Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing - Report of the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability in Light of Rio+20
- The High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) was established by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to formulate a new blueprint for sustainable ...
- WFUNA Webinar: Get Rio: Global Governance for a Sustainable Future
- Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development (IFSD) is one of the two main themes of Rio+20. But what exactly does this ...
- Pilot awareness training course on 'Work Adjustment for Recycling and Managing Waste'(WARM)programme
- The Green Jobs Project of the ILO is being implemented in Sri Lanka from October 2010 - July 2012. The project seeks to deepen ILO constituents understanding ...
- Green Jobs in Sri Lanka
- This is an ILO Fact Sheet on Green Jobs in Sri Lanka.
- Research Conference: Green Jobs for Asia and the Pacific - Technical Papers and Presentations
- The research conference organized by ILO was held on 21-23 April 2008 in Niigata, Japan. It aimed to explore new concepts and approaches, extract lessons for ...
- A Green “New Deal” for Asia? How Asia-Pacific countries are expanding the Green sector in their economies
- Many Asia governments are rolling out ambitious plans to nurture 'Green-collar' jobs in their economies, from assembling hybrid cars to cultivating bio-fuels. ...
- Labour and the Environment: A Natural Synergy
- This publication presents examples of the application of technical expertise, of workplace participation, and of tools that promote workers’ health and safety ...
- Preliminary assessment of Green Jobs in 3 sectors: Renewable energy, Waste management and Construction
- The report aims to develop an inventory of which organization or agency is doing what in green jobs in the three sectors in Bangladesh; and identify potential ...
- Building green dreams
- At a time when the real estate sector is searching for a possible trigger, builders are zooming in on the concept of water and energy conservation. Almost all ...
- Green entrepreneurs launch 'social waste management'
- Young entrepreneurs of the Mumbai's Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) shared their experience of making solid waste management efficient, decentralised ...
- E-waste in China - A country report
- The report aims to enable better understanding of the e-waste system in China, including actors, projects, policies and other factors, and to facilitate ...
- Tackling e-waste
- One would think that e-waste would be an issue at Technopark given that garbage disposal itself is a major issue elsewhere in the city. Apparently it’s not– at ...
- Green Business Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region
- Green Business Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region Prepared within the Framework of the ILO Green Jobs Programme for Asia and the Pacific 2013
- 30 countries from Asia & Pacific adopt the Ha Noi 3R Declaration (Reduce, Reuse, Recycling) on Sustainable 3R Goals for Asia and the Pacific for 2013‐2023
- "Representatives from the Governments of 30 countries from Asia & the Pacific, international organizations, bilateral and multilateral agencies, research ...
- Rise in electronics consumption in Asia-Pacific drives the e-waste recycling market
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2013 - Asia-Pacific is considering legislations to ensure more efficient handling and disposal of e-waste.
- Technical webinar: Mapping environmental initiatives and tools in the garment sector in Asia
- The increasing social and environmental impacts of the garment supply chain are well known and have resulted in the development of an array of initiatives, ...
- Taiwan turns plastic junk into blankets, dolls
- TAIPEI: Some 40 people stand ankle-deep in used plastic bottles in the yard of a recycling station in Taipei, stamping them flat in the first step of a process ...
- NE China plastic bag ban drives green industry.
- Eco-Business, 19 Jun 2015 - When Wang Bin heard about Jilin Province’s plan to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags, it inspired a career switch.
- Waste Management in Republic of Korea
- The Korean government’s “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) system requires manufacturers and importers to recycle a certain amount of their products.
