WIPO Contributes to Joint UN Report on E-Waste Management in Latin America
May 14, 2015
A joint WIPO-ITU-UNU-UNIDO-Basel Regional Center for Latin America, WHO and UNESCO report on E-waste Management in Latin America was recently published.
The report was launched during a side event in the margins of the meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions on Monday, May 11, 2015 in Geneva.
The co-authoring UN organizations and agencies provided their expertise of E-waste.
Based on the results of its E-waste Recycling Patent Landscape Report, WIPO contributed to the report with information on patenting activity related to e-waste recycling technologies in Latin America.
The report identifies among others innovation and technology as factors which can assist in e-waste management.