strategy
Controlling transboundary movement of hazardous waste
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 promoting and strengthening international cooperation in the management of transboundary movements of hazardous waste. Broader:
Regulating transboundary movement and disposal of wasteManaging transboundary issuesReducing transboundary pollutionPreventing movement across frontiersImproving hazardous waste management Narrower:
Preventing illegal international traffic in hazardous wastesEnsuring compatibility of agreements on hazardous wasteSetting up tracking systems for movements of hazardous wasteDeveloping conventions on transboundary movement of hazardous wasteComplying with international guidelines in hazardous waste agreementsBanning hazardous waste exports to countries lacking safe handling capabilityImproving capacities to monitor the transboundary movements of hazardous wastesAssigning responsibility for damage caused by accidental spills of hazardous wasteCampaigning against the export of toxic materials Organizations:
Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal Convention on the ban of the import of hazardous wastes into Africa and on the control of their transboundary movements within Africa Regional agreement on the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes Convention to ban the importation into Forum island countries of hazardous wastes and radioactive wastes and to control the transboundary movement and management of hazardous wastes within the South Pacific Protocol on the prevention of pollution of the Mediterranean Sea by transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal Protocol on the control of marine transboundary movements and disposal of hazardous wastes References:
Norris, Ruth, et al: Pills, Pesticides and Profits: the international trade in toxic substancesOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Transfrontier Movements of Hazardous Wastes: legal and institutional aspectsThird World Network: Toxic Terror: dumping of hazardous wastes in the third worldGuevara, Maria Isolda P: The Basel Convention Export Ban Amendment: Arguments against ratificationKrueger, Jonathan: International Trade and the Basel Convention Subjects:
Societal Problems → HazardsSocietal Problems → Waste
Government → Frontiers
Cybernetics → Control
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
