strategy
Establishing joint responsibility for trade in restricted chemicals
Description:
Provision of knowledge and information on severely restricted or banned chemicals to importing countries to enable them to judge and take decisions on whether to import, and on how to handle, those chemicals and to establish joint responsibility in trade of chemicals between importing and exporting countries. Implementation:
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. Broader:
Establishing Facilitates:
Importing Facilitated by:
Improving information systems on toxic chemicalsImproving national chemicals management capabilitiesProviding health risk data on alternatives to restricted chemicalsStrengthening network of national information exchange centres on chemicalsImproving developing countries' access to international information systems on chemicals Subjects:
Fundamental Sciences → ChemicalsCommerce → Trade
Societal Problems → Restrictions
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies