The 5th International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5), held last week in Bonn, Germany, established a new global framework to prevent damage from chemicals and...
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- The world we live in is in transition. With the adoption of the United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable development and its 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) as well as...
15.08.2016
- A smiling child, standing in a marine environment, raises its arms in delight. The sea is painted in different shades of blue, uniting the sky and the Earth. Strands of life...
23.03.2016
- The theme for this year’s World Water Day proclaimed by the United Nations for March 22 was “Water and Jobs”. In getting the message out, the UN and its partners have underscored...
02.04.2014
- Sustainable Management of Resources - Water is the origin of all life and is extremely important to each and every one of us. That is why, in 1993, the United Nations introduced an...
28.05.2013
- Everybody in the Chemical Distribution industry knows his face: Edgar E. Nordmann, president of the European Association of Chemical Distributors (Fecc). Nordmann, a trusted...
14.12.2012
- Before the opening of COP-18 on November 26, if you'd asked anyone -- an environmentalist, an industrialist, the proverbial man or woman on the street -- what they thought what the...
22.10.2012
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