The transmission of know-how, equipment and products to governments, organizations or other stakeholders. It usually also implies adaptation for use in a specific cultural, social, economic and environmental context. Source: United Nations Environment Programme, Glossary of Terms for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (Nairobi, 2007), p. 91.* *This term is included in the glossary of key terms prepared for the work of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, under the category 'Terms used in Environment Assembly resolution 5/14 that have definitions adopted or endorsed by an intergovernmental process'. See UNEP/PP/INC.1/6.
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