The guide was prepared in a major inter-agency effort led by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (formerly known as UNISDR), the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), with a substantive contribution from UNECE and several other key agencies and institutions. The publication was launched at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention (December 2018, Geneva). The guide highlights the enormous costs and multiple impacts of