Background and acknowledgements

This publication was developed under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents. The Conference of the Parties to the Convention recognized the importance of risk assessment in the implementation of the Convention. Members of the Convention’s Bureau, Working Group on Implementation and secretariat formed a small group on risk assessment and organized, under Switzerland’s leadership, the UNECE Seminar on Risk Assessment Methodologies (Geneva, 4 December 2018) to support member States in implementing provisions of the Convention and to facilitate an exchange of information and share experiences in applying risk assessment methodologies. This concluded, among others, with a recommendation to develop a study on risk assessment due to the challenges many countries face in executing transboundary risk assessments and in exchanging knowledge and information on methodologies.

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Clean Water and Sanitation

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