This is a report from a workshop on the environmentally sound management of used lead acid batteries (ULAB) held in Osaka, Japan on 26-27 November 2015. UNEP partners with governments and stakeholders to address the environmental and health risk pose by lead. Most of lead is used for batteries globally, and their unsound management and recycling are causing health and environmental
damage in many places. This small workshop was aimed at initiating the analysis of the trade, recycling and health/environmental impact of ULAB, and elaborate on possible UNEP activities to address this issue, starting with some countries in Asia. Draft analysis was presented at the workshop, and the development of regional, subregional and national strategies was proposed.

The plan was developed through a participatory consultative process with the Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African Universities (MESA) partnership, the Horn of Africa Regional Environmental Programme and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Environmental Education Programme (amongst others), and also involved participants attending the World Environmental Education Congress in Morocco.

Report of the Twenty-second Intergovernmental Meeting of the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA)