strategy
Developing pollution control technologies
Synonyms:
Developing pollution prevention and cleanup technologies Description:
Developing appropriate pollution control technology on the basis of risk assessment and epidemiological research. Context:
Prevention technologies - technologies that emphasize "protecting, conserving and sustaining the environment from the beginning, and thus avoiding the cycle of rectification of error - contribute to socially equitable and environmentally-sound development.Dealing with environmental wastes through "end-of-pipe" measures (such as wastewater treatment systems, hazardous waste incinerators and other treatment technologies, secure landfills, monitoring equipment, solid waste hauling equipment, air pollution control equipment, and catalytic converters) has proven to be very costly and does not address all environmental problems.
Pollution prevention offers industry the advantages of: less need for costly pollution control equipment; "getting ahead" of environmental regulations; reduced reporting and permitting requirements, and less operation and maintenance of pollution control equipment.
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.
Implementation:
Emerging technologies such as feedstock recycling have the potential to increase the levels of plastics recycling in the future. Narrower:
Facilitating transfer of clean low-waste production processesDeveloping water pollution control technologiesDeveloping technologies to control transboundary air pollutionTraining in pollution control, waste treatment and disposal technologiesExchanging information on control technologies for transboundary air pollutionDeveloping air pollution control technology for urban industry and transportationFacilitating transfer of marine pollution control technology to developing countriesProviding guidance on control technology for marine pollution from land-based sourcesClean pollution control technologies for IndustryExchanging information on costs of control technologies for transboundary air pollutionFacilitating access of developing countries to pollution control knowledge and technologies Facilitates:
Managing wastesRecycling plasticsPreventing pollutionCleaning up pollutionReducing air pollutionDesigning for environmentReducing industrial emissionsEnforcing air quality controlsResponding rapidly to oil spillsSubstituting for harmful productsReducing industrial water pollutionReducing pollution from energy generationReducing nitrogen and phosphoric pollution from animal production Facilitated by:
Subsidizing pollution controlApplying environmental chemistryIlluminating possibilities for resource useDeveloping methodologies for impact assessment of atmospheric changeMonitoring technical developments in national environmental action plansPromoting research and development in transboundary air pollution controlResearching effects of fiscal policy on innovation of environmental technologies Values:
PollutionUncleanliness References:
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Clean Combustion of Brown Coal and Lignite Subjects:
Societal Problems → PollutionCybernetics → Control
Technology → Technology
Development → Development
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
