Emissions from human activities, and primarily fossil fuels, contribute to climate change, global warming and the greenhouse effect. This is primarily from industry, energy, transportation and related [..]
This set of graphics has been produced by GRID-Arendal in co-operation with the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for the 7th Conference of the Parties [..]
The percentage of fish to the total human diet from various regions in the world. Based on statistics from 1987 to 1989. Fish is the last wild meal in the human diet, but roughly two-thirds of the [..]
The graphic compares biomass to fish mortality to summarize the amount of exploitation on fish stocks globally. Fish is considered important to human diet, but roughly two-thirds of the world’s major [..]
This graphic presents the 1997 status of recycling operations, by recycling category, and broken down by imports and exports. R4 has the highest reported data, with more than sixhundred thousand [..]
This graphics displays the 1997 situation on parties to the Basel convention and their national reporting in waste import to the convention secretariat. Most OECD countries have reported their imports [..]
This graphic shows the total amount of hazardous wastes transferred from OECD to non-OECD countries that were reporting parties, as of 1997, to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary [..]
This figure shows the total amounts of hazardous waste disposed of through 16 different methods in 1997 by parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes [..]
This graphic shows the locations of parties and signatories to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, as of November 11, 1999. [..]
This graphic shows the generation of hazardous wastes and other wastes by Y categories in 1997, in millions of metric tonnes, by some of the parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of [..]
This graphic shows the generation of hazardous wastes and other wastes by Y categories in 1997, in millions of metric tonnes, by some of the parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of [..]
This graphic shows the amounts of hazardous waste and other wastes, in kilograms, that were generated per capita in 1997 by parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of [..]
This graphic shows the amounts of hazardous wastes and other wastes generated in 1997 in relation to gross national product, by parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary [..]
This graphic shows, as of 1997, which of the parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal had reported [export] data, which had [..]
This graphic shows the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes in 1997 among non-OECD countries that were reporting parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of [..]
