June 13, 2013
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Health & Safety Newsletter June 13, 2013 |
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Targeting the root causes of disaster risk: UNEP launches first graduate course on disaster, environment & risk reduction
The course aims to increase awareness among graduates on the links between environment and development. Some of these graduates will go on to put these lessons into practice while others will work with academics to create new evidence to support the case for ecosystem-based approaches to DRR In an effort to target the root causes of environmental disaster risk, a new graduate course on Disasters, Environment and Risk Reduction was launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Center for Natural Resources and Development (CNRD) at the 7th World Environmental Education ... | ||
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Croatian accession to the European Union brings new duties for companies
When Croatia joins the European Union on 1 July, the EU chemicals legislation REACH and CLP apply immediately to Croatian companies. Croatian companies should pay particular attention to pre-registering chemical substances. Croatian companies manufacturing or importing substances in quantities of more than one tonne per year need to pre-register them with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) by 1 January 2014. Companies will then need to make full REACH registrations for substances manufactured or imported at levels over 100 tonnes together with those that are carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic ... | ||
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