Browse our library of resources and tools for environmental emergency prevention, preparedness and response. Find links to reports, policy documents, tools, guidance documents and communication materials.
Browse our library of resources and tools for environmental emergency prevention, preparedness and response. Find links to reports, policy documents, tools, guidance documents and communication materials.
This study, conducted in 2019 by WHO, looks at safe health care waste management, including segregation, collection, transport, treatment and waste disposal and understands that it is fundamental to wider efforts to provide quality and safe health care.
Learn MoreThese guidelines help people in the field to understand the human rights dimensions of their work in disaster response while giving them practical examples and operational steps about how some of these seemingly abstract concepts may be implemented.
Learn MoreThe On-Site Operations Coordination Centre (OSOCC) is a rapid response tool that provides a platform for the coordination of international response activities in a sudden onset emergency. The guidelines provide details on the set-up of an OSOCC and an associated environmental emergency cell.
Learn MoreThe report summarizing the OECD session on "Facilities Handling Hazardous Substances with Ownership Change".
Learn MoreA OECD Working Group on Chemical Accidents (WGCA) report on the risks and challenges related to the ageing of hazardous installations.
Learn MoreA concise document providing a framework to assist stakeholders to identify, understand and minimise the risks before, during and after a change of ownership at a hazardous facility.
Learn MoreA collection of OECD's environmental country reviews…
Learn MoreThis occasional policy paper aims to improve the humanitarian sector’s understanding of the nexus between climate change and violent conflict.
Learn MoreOCHA Occasional Policy Brief on climate change and humanitarian action…
Learn MoreThe 2015 Myanmar's Initial Flood Response Plan by OCHA, which called for $75.5 million to cover the needs of over 580,000 people in six regions that were affected by floods in summer of 2015.
Learn MoreA case study provided by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the linkage between Humanitarian and Nuclear Response Systems.
Learn MoreGuidelines for the development of a national environmental contingency plan provided by UN Environment/OCHA Joint Unit (JEU).
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