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Interlinkages between the chemicals and waste multilateral environmental agreements and biodiversity: Key insights


Chemicals, wastes and climate change - Interlinkages and potential for coordinated action


Success stories: Stockholm Convention 2001 – 2011


Stockholm Convention 10th Anniversary: Major Achievements in 10 Years


Synergies Decisions 2005 - 2011


Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions


Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts

Interlinkages between the chemicals and waste multilateral environmental agreements and biodiversity: Key insights

The 1989 Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, the 1998 Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury all aim at protecting human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals and waste.

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Chemicals, wastes and climate change - Interlinkages and potential for coordinated action

Climate change and management of hazardous chemicals and wastes are two of the many challenges facing policy and decision makers committed to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, as set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A number of global agreements have been established to address these issues. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seeks to both stabilize greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere and adapt to the eventual inevitable impacts of climate change. Falling within the scope of this study, hazardous chemicals related agreements include the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Finally, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal focuses specifically on waste-related issues.

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Major Achievements in 10 Years

Stockholm Convention 10th Anniversary: Major Achievements in 10 Years

2012

38 Pages

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Success stories: Stockholm Convention 2001 – 2011

2012

169 pages

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Synergies Decisions 2005 - 2011

Compilation of decisions related to enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

2012

74 pages

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Synergies Success Stories 
Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the
Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Secretariat of the Basel Convention
Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention
Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention

New York, March 2011 - 53 pages

Examples of successful activities undertaken to implement the multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and other international frameworks in the hazardous wastes and chemicals cluster in a coordinated manner. The stories are based on national or regional projects and have been written by persons directly involved in activities at the national, regional and global levels.

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Climate change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts

Report of the UNEP/AMAP Expert Group

2011

62 pages

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