Project

Environmentally Sound Management of POPs, Mercury and other Hazardous Chemicals in Argentina

Lead country

Argentina

Participating countries

Argentina

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From September 14, 2020 to September 14, 2026

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  2. 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production
  3. 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Project ID: 6281

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Persistent organic pollutants
  • Heavy metals

Sub-area(s)

  • Unintentional POPs (e.g. furans, dioxins)
  • Mercury

Landscape(s)

  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Industrial site
  • Mining sites
  • Contaminated sites

Transformed sector(s)

  • Materials and manufacturing

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance

Strategy

  • Technology innovation
  • Capacity building
  • Management operation

Sub-strategy

  • Transition to safer alternatives
  • Innovations in techniques/ approaches
  • Laws enforcement/ Regulation
  • Institutional framework
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Waste management
  • Demonstration sites/Pilot

Social inclusion

  • Women

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • Sci-tech pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  • 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production
  • 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Conventions and protocols

  • Stockholm Convention (POPs)
  • Minamata Convention on Mercury

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation

Project description

To minimize risk to Persistent Organic Pollutants exposure of human beings and environment to POPs, Mercury and other Hazardous Chemicals in an integrated approach, and to promote compliance of Stockholm and Minamata Conventions in Argentina

USD $9,130,250

Grant amount

USD $47,675,209

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Source(s) of fund

 

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