strategy
Improving hazardous waste management programmes to meet health and environment norms
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.Agenda 21 recommends that governments, according to their capacities and available resources and with the cooperation of the UN and other organizations, should establish or strengthen programmes for the environmentally sound management of hazardous waste in accordance with appropriate health and environmental standards, and extend surveillance systems to identify adverse effects on the population and the environment of exposure to hazardous waste.
Broader:
Improving hazardous waste institutionsProtecting against hazards to human health in the natural environment Facilitated by:
Researching effects of air pollution on human health Values:
HealthHazardWastageMismanagement Subjects:
Societal Problems → HazardsSocietal Problems → Waste
Research, Standards → Standards
Health Care → Health
Management → Management
Environment → Environment
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
