SDG 3.9: Reduce Illnesses and Death from Hazardous Chemicals and Pollution

“Accelerating Zero-Emissions Delivery: An innovative approach to transforming the last mile introduces a new financing model for Zero Emissions Delivery Zone (ZED Zone) that can accelerate commercial vehicle electrification and enable companies to hit their clean shipping goals… Further, the model...

“The Health & Safety Network provides educational and technical information to increase knowledge of safety hazards and general health issues related to the conservation profession. When thinking about health and safety, it is important to remember guidelines for people as well as collections.”

“In 2001, the National Park Service awarded California State Parks a $41,635 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) grant to plan and implement a series of workshops throughout the state to bring together tribal members and museum staff to examine the issue of contaminated...

“For museum managers a day to day health and safety concern is the assessment and management of risks relating to visitors and their interaction with the museum’s building, events and activities. The prevalence of dealing with related matters means that they become part of the management routine...

“This Compilation of Good Practices for National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) and Water Governance (the ‘Compilation’) identifies good practices on water governance and seeks to strengthen the capacity of these institutions in realising water governance related human rights. It intends to...

“Be ready for earthquakes, fires, and floods. Protect your staff, visitors, and collections.

Be ready for an emergency. In the event of an earthquake, a fire, or a flood, your museum or gallery staff need to know how to keep themselves and visitors safe and protect collections.”

“Public libraries in the United States are civic institutions that perform critical functions extending far ‘beyond books’. However, policy makers and public health practitioners rarely consider libraries to be community-level resources that can advance population health or address health...

“It is urgent and critical to anticipate, plan for and reduce disaster risk in order to more effectively protect persons, communities and countries, their livelihoods, health, cultural heritage, socioeconomic assets and ecosystems, and thus strengthen their resilience.” (p.9)

“Against this...

“This How To Guide is one of a series of collections care guides published by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service in partnership with the Collections Trust. It provides an introduction to the recognition and management of hazards in museum collections, and is a starting point for managing...

“A life cycle assessment (LCA) Carbon Calculator and Library of Case Studies and Information Sheets developed to help cultural heritage professionals make educated, sustainable choices to lower the environmental impact of their work.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) sets a framework for quantifying...

“This page is maintained by members of the American Institute for Conservation's Sustainability Committee.

The Sustainability Committee was founded in August 2008 as the Green Task Force (GTF) with the initial mission to evaluate U.S. conservators’ current awareness of sustainability and how we are...

“Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices. The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible...