strategy
Preparing environmental guidelines for safe discharge of waste
Synonyms:
Harmonizing health guidelines for safe disposal of wastes Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends identifying, developing and harmonizing methodology and environmental quality and health guidelines for safe waste discharge and disposal.
Article 4(2)c of the 1999 Draft Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, states: The Parties shall, in particular, take all appropriate measures for the purpose of ensuring: Effective protection of water resources used as sources of drinking water, and their related water ecosystems, from pollution from other causes, including agriculture, industry and other discharges and emissions of hazardous substances. This shall aim at the effective reduction and elimination of discharges and emissions of substances judged to be hazardous to human health and water ecosystems.
Broader:
Disposing of wastesImplementing environmental health strategyEnsuring environmentally sound waste processing Narrower:
Using criteria for safe management of solid wasteStrengthening international guidelines for the safe reuse of wasteInforming about techniques for the safe disposal of wasteTreating waste water for safe reuseStrengthening national capacity for safe treatment and disposal of wasteEnsuring safe management of radioactive wastes Subjects:
Environment → Environment Health Care → Health
Research, Standards → Quality unification
Societal Problems → Safety
Societal Problems → Waste
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
