PRTR capacity-building PRTR capacity-building supported by UNITARsupported by UNITAR

2nd Meeting of the PRTR Protocol Working Group

20-21 November 2012

Geneva

Capacity-building projects/initiatives 2

Use of PRTRs for POPs reporting

GEF medium-sized project

2009-2012

UNEP/UNITAR initiative

Global project (Chile, Cambodia, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Peru and Ukraine)

Applicability of PRTRs to comply with MEAs

I Phase = design. Inclusion of POPs in the list of chemicals.

II Phase = implementation. Involvement of POPs-PRTR focal points.

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POPs reporting approach 4

Data sources

Bottom-up approach

Top-down approach

POPs reporting approach 5

Bottom-up approach

AIR WATER LAND WASTE

Emission to superficial

water

Transfer through sewage

In-site transfer External transfer

CONTAMINATED SITES STOCKS

POPs un-intentional

releases

POPs stocks and sites

PRTR Online Reporting Model 6

PRTR model

PRTR in Peru 7

http://retc.minam.gob.pe/retcweb/

PRTR in Peru 8

http://retc.minam.gob.pe/retcweb/

PRTR in Peru 9

http://retc.minam.gob.pe/retcweb/

PRTR in Peru 10

http://retc.minam.gob.pe/retcweb/

Agenda anual del registro

Submission of industrial reports – 3 months

Verification of data and comments by Ministry of Environment – 5 months

Publication of data – 1 month (September)

Preparations for next reporting period (dissemination of guidelines) – 3 months

Design of regional PRTR in Central America

Project 2011-2012

Supported by CCAD and Ministry of Environment of Spain

Regional project (Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras)

Also I Phase = design

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Design of regional PRTR in Central America

All countries drafted PRTR regulation

Integration with other reporting schemes

All countries with online reporting systems

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PRTR in Honduras 13

http://retchn.org/index.html#http://www.serna.gob.hn/RETC-Web/index.html#

PRTR design in Azerbaijan and Panama

Starting 2011-2012, ending in 2013

Funded by the SAICM Quick Start Programme Trust Fund

PRTRs are one of the SAICM work areas!

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Key element = south-south technical cooperation

Georgia AzerbaijanCosta RicaGuatemalaHonduras

Panama

Promotion of PRTR Protocol 15

ASIA LATIN AMERICA

EASTERN EUROPE

Cambodia

Ecuador

Panama

Central America

Georgia

Kazakhstan

Ukraine

Peru

Azerbaijan

UNITAR PRTR design/implementation package

Updated guidance document

New guidance on legal consdierations

New guidance on using PRTRs to report POPs

Online reporting model

Manuals

Video

E-training

PRTR:Learn Webinars (what are the needs?)

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ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, SPANISH2013

Future steps - implementation 17

Thank youThank youChemicals and Waste Management

ProgrammeUnited Nations Institute for Training

and Research (UNITAR)Palais des Nations1211 Geneva 10

Tel: +41 22 917 1234Fax: +41 22 917 8047

Email: cwm@unitar.org