This report was produced for the Egyptian Pollution Abatement Project EPAP by Mr. Lauri Kattelus from the Finnish Environment Institute. The goal of this study is to provide selected links on pollution abatement technology, useful to industrial environmental management and environmental administration. Overlapping with the existing EEAA web sites is avoided as far as possible by selecting direct links to relevant sites.

Chapter I includes the results of a search by organisation. The organisations screened are the World Bank (WB), the European Union (EU), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Environment Canada, Environmental Agencies in the UK, Environmental Protection Authority in Australia, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Chapter II contains information of Cleaner Production in Various Industrial Sectors. The search is based both to open searches and searches through the organisations.

Moreover the report comprises of short chapters on Emission Guidelines, Virtual Libraries, Links to some environmental agencies in different countries and Environmental Treaties.

Information search in the Internet requires practising. All the search engines have their own help desks. It is useful to have a look at them. Search results are presented so that the "best matches" are on top of the list.

The EEAA has already its own www-services and some of the organisations can be contacted through these sites. In this report the emphasis is on industrial pollution and its prevention and a direct link into the relevant sites is provided whenever possible.

The report is available only as an electronic version which allows direct utilisation of the links and addresses located.

1. INFORMATION SEARCH BY ORGANISATION

1.1 THE WORLD BANK

The World Bank has a broad database of research on global economic and environmental issues. The address of the home page is http://www-esd.worldbank.org/ . Search service can be found from the home page; however it is recommended to use the search services provided under relevant main headings like New Ideas for Pollution Regulation ( NIPR) , World Bank-Environment etc. NIPR has a targeted search of "all industrial resources" which can be very useful (http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/search.htm ).

An easy starting point in World Bank pages is the site map which gives the topic headlines in alphabetical order, by clicking the blue topic all the pages can be opened: http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/ext/language.nsf/1c5f3a985e71f084852567b100598550/c212a6e715a6e301852567b1006250c1?OpenDocument . Most of the headlines are not relevant to EPAP.

From the EPAP point of view the most important headlines in the site map could be:

- Pollution Management http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/PMExt.nsf/d798dd11401b4e068525668000766b9d/2c4814272584a5538525667f007091ce?OpenDocument

- NIPR (New Ideas in Pollution Regulation) http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/index.htm

- Environment http://www.worldbank.org/environment/

- Non-governmental Organisations/Civil Society http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/d3f59aa3a570f67a852567cf00695688/867440ff3f16f6808525683b005d38f1?OpenDocument

- Privatisation Link http://privatizationlink.ipanet.net/

- Publications: http://www.worldbank.org/html/extpb/index.htm

- Library Site (Bank-IMF) & JOLIS: http://jolis.worldbankimflib.org/external.htm

The analysis of the causes and impacts of pollution needs to be carried out in a broad cross-sectorial way. Pollution Management site provides approaches to the problems in different ways:

- Policy Framework: policies, priorities, indicators, instruments …

- By Media: air, water, waste…

- By Sector: energy, industry and mining, transportation…

- By Region: Africa, East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, South Asia

One of the key documents in pollution management is The Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook , a comprehensive manual for industrial pollution control. The Handbook promotes the concepts of sustainable development by focusing attention on the benefits B environmental and economic B of pollution prevention, including cleaner production and good management techniques. Part I (aimed primarily at governmental decision makers) contains summary of key policy lessons, Part II (aimed at agencies and organisations) good practice notes of policy objectives and Part III (aimed at experts in various industrial sectors) detailed guidelines of industrial pollution management. The Handbook also comprises of maximum air emissions and effluent discharge requirements, pollutants, pollutant control technologies, industry sector guidelines and a wide glossary of professional terms. This handbook can be downloaded from the following address:

http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/Docs/TOC?OpenDocument

The Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook is rather comprehensive, nearly 500 pages, but the link opens the homepage from where the interesting topics can be selected.

The original, in 1998 published version contains a number of typographic errors. A copy of the erratum sheet can be received from the address:

http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/Docs/Errata

In the Pollution Management "In Focus" Discussion Notes there is an interesting note of prerequisites of environmentally friendly privatisation (pdf- file).

In the Pollution Management knowledge base by sector, the tittles in Industry and mining sector are:

- Industrial management: Hazardous waste management, Cleaner production, Improving industrial environmental compliance

- Mining reform

- The International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME)

Cleaner Production is discussed in a separate chapter of this report.

New Ideas in Pollution Regulation (NIPR) (http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/ ) is a special site for researchers, government officials and citizens interested in understanding and improving control of industrial pollution, especially in developing countries. NIPR has its main emphasis on economics of industrial pollution control and it is the primary source for materials produced by the World Bank's Economics of Industrial Pollution Control Research Project. The subtitles of NIPR are e.g. A New Approach (multiple actors, multiple incentives), Traditional Regulation and Firm Behaviour, The Role of Community in Pollution Control, Industri