Profile Sheet: The Flipflopi
The Flipflopi project has teamed up with CORDIO East Africa, the University of Northumbria and the University of Portsmouth to tackle marine ecosystem health and sustainability challenges by combining indigenous knowledge with modern innovation by constructing traditional…
Profile Sheet: FRESHPPACT Impact Hub
Blue Skies, in collaboration with Waitrose, has launched the FRESHPPACT Impact Hub (FRESHPPACT) to create a platform that facilitates research and development into the shared environmental challenges facing the fresh produce industry, specifically those with food supply…
MANUFACTURING POLLUTION – Synopsis Series 1: Kenya – Distilleries; Ethiopia – Leather; Tanzania – Textiles
As part of the SMEP prioritisation work for East Africa, Teifa IQ, in partnership with the Ethiopian Society of Chemical Engineers, Cleaner Production Centre of Tanzania, and Kenya National Cleaner Production Centre undertook: A Country Review of…
MANUFACTURING POLLUTION – Synopsis Series 1: Kenya and Uganda – Uptake of pollution mitigating technologies
SMEP engaged Open Capital Advisors (OCA) to identify private-sector-generated pollution mitigation solutions that have the potential to scale and realise pollution abatement impact in Kenya and Uganda’s manufacturing sector.
MANUFACTURING POLLUTION – Synopsis Series 1: Bangladesh – Used Lead Acid Batteries & Tanneries
As part of the SMEP prioritisation work for South Asia, Pure Earth presented high-priority interventions/solutions to reduce environmental impacts and human health exposure from lead contamination from the Tanneries and Used Lead-Acid Batteries (ULAB) sectors in Bangladesh.
MANUFACTURING POLLUTION – Synopsis Series 1: Bangladesh – Used Lead Acid Battery Manufacture; Pakistan – Tanneries
SMEP contracted Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, in partnership with Sustainable World-Air Quality Asia to research Used Lead Acid Battery Manufacture in Bangladesh and Tanneries in Pakistan
Dashboard shows environmental impacts of exports from African and South Asian countries
UNCTAD and Instituto 17 created an interactive dashboard which combines economic, trade and product life-cycle analysis, to provide governments and industry actors with key export pollution data for manufacturing sectors in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and…
Pollution from manufacturing in Kenya and Uganda
Adopting pollution control solutions is a complex challenge. Understanding the solutions that act as “horizontal improvers” across various industries is essential to effectively target public and private investments and improve pollution mitigation solutions in sectors that can…
Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution Programme