Promote reduced-risks alternatives
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for all stakeholders to collaborate to identify and promote reduced-risk alternatives, taking into account the life cycle of substances and products, including waste, and promoting the use of these alternatives.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- WHO - Demonstrating Cost Effectiveness and Sustainability of Environmentally Sound and Locally Appropriate Alternatives to DDT for Malaria Vector Control in Africa [2017]
- UNEP - Guidance: Risk Reduction Tools for Chemicals Control [2019]
- EC - Preparing a Waste Prevention Programme: Guidance document [2012]
- EEB - Guide and Checklist for Phasing Out Mercury-added Products Under the Minamata Convention on Mercury [2017]
- WHO - Report of the informal global WHO consultation with policymakers in dental public health, 2021: monitoring country progress in phasing down the use of dental amalgam [2021]
- Stockholm Convention - Guidance on considerations related to alternatives and substitutes for listed persistent organic pollutants and candidate chemicals [accessed 2022]
- UNIDO - Toolkit on Innovative Approaches for the Sound Management of Chemicals and Chemical Wastes [accessed 2022]
- FAO / WHO : Guidelines on Highly Hazardous Pesticides [2016]
- FAO - The potential key role of SAICM National Focal Points in Reducing Harm from Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) [2022]