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Category : Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Report of the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, Geneva, 18-22 September 1995
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Category : Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Publisher:
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Category : Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Decisions and Report Adopted by the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties
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Category : Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazarouds Wastes and Their Disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazarouds Wastes and Their Disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal [6th Meeting, Geneva, 9-13 December 2002].
Author: Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
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Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Languages : en
Pages : 185
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UNDOC, Current Index
Toxic Exports
Author: Jennifer Clapp
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501735934
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
In recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms in rich industrialized countries has emerged as a routine practice. Many poor countries have accepted these deadly imports but are ill equipped to manage the materials safely. For more than a decade, environmentalists and the governments of developing countries have lobbied intensively and generated public outcry in an attempt to halt hazardous transfers from Northern industrialized nations to the Third World, but the practice continues.In her insightful and important book, Jennifer Clapp addresses this alarming problem. Clapp describes the responses of those engaged in hazard transfer to international regulations, and in particular to the 1989 adoption of the Basel Convention. She pinpoints a key weakness of the regulations—because hazard transfer is dynamic, efforts to stop one form of toxic export prompt new forms to emerge. For instance, laws intended to ban the disposal of toxic wastes in the Third World led corporations to ship these byproducts to poor countries for "recycling." And, Clapp warns, current efforts to prohibit this "recycling movement" may accelerate a new business endeavor: the relocation to poor countries of entire industries that generate toxic wastes.Clapp concludes that the dynamic nature of hazard transfer results from increasingly fluid global trade and investment relations in the context of a highly unequal world, and from the leading role played by multinational corporations and environmental NGOs. Governments, she maintains, have for too long failed to capture the initiative and have instead only reacted to these opposing forces.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501735934
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
In recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms in rich industrialized countries has emerged as a routine practice. Many poor countries have accepted these deadly imports but are ill equipped to manage the materials safely. For more than a decade, environmentalists and the governments of developing countries have lobbied intensively and generated public outcry in an attempt to halt hazardous transfers from Northern industrialized nations to the Third World, but the practice continues.In her insightful and important book, Jennifer Clapp addresses this alarming problem. Clapp describes the responses of those engaged in hazard transfer to international regulations, and in particular to the 1989 adoption of the Basel Convention. She pinpoints a key weakness of the regulations—because hazard transfer is dynamic, efforts to stop one form of toxic export prompt new forms to emerge. For instance, laws intended to ban the disposal of toxic wastes in the Third World led corporations to ship these byproducts to poor countries for "recycling." And, Clapp warns, current efforts to prohibit this "recycling movement" may accelerate a new business endeavor: the relocation to poor countries of entire industries that generate toxic wastes.Clapp concludes that the dynamic nature of hazard transfer results from increasingly fluid global trade and investment relations in the context of a highly unequal world, and from the leading role played by multinational corporations and environmental NGOs. Governments, she maintains, have for too long failed to capture the initiative and have instead only reacted to these opposing forces.
Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law at the United Nations Environment Programme
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Earth Summit II
Author: Derek Osborn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134054068
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In June 1997, heads of government and senior representatives from over 130 countries met in New York to consider what progress had been made since the first Earth Summit in 1992, and la decide upon priorities for the future. Earth Summit II presents the principal official documents agreed al the Summit alongside an authoritative analysis of where progress is and is not being made, the reasons for this, and the priorities of the parties involved. Finally, the authors look forward to the ten-year follow-up in 2002, and propose methods for ensuring that that event is both effective and participatory. Insightful and comprehensive, this will be essential reading for policy makers, lobbyists and students on environment and development courses.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134054068
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In June 1997, heads of government and senior representatives from over 130 countries met in New York to consider what progress had been made since the first Earth Summit in 1992, and la decide upon priorities for the future. Earth Summit II presents the principal official documents agreed al the Summit alongside an authoritative analysis of where progress is and is not being made, the reasons for this, and the priorities of the parties involved. Finally, the authors look forward to the ten-year follow-up in 2002, and propose methods for ensuring that that event is both effective and participatory. Insightful and comprehensive, this will be essential reading for policy makers, lobbyists and students on environment and development courses.
Poles Apart
Author: Anil Agarwal
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Category : Environmental justice
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : Environmental justice
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Protecting the Ozone Layer
Author: Stephen O Andersen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113655923X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions; which, over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been hailed as an outstanding success. It needed the participation of all the parties: governments, industry, scientists, campaigners, NGOs and the media, and is a model for future treaties. This volume provides the authoritative and comprehensive history of the whole process from the earliest warning signs to the present. It is an invaluable record for all those involved and a necessary reference for future negotiations to a wide range of scholars, students and professionals.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113655923X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions; which, over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been hailed as an outstanding success. It needed the participation of all the parties: governments, industry, scientists, campaigners, NGOs and the media, and is a model for future treaties. This volume provides the authoritative and comprehensive history of the whole process from the earliest warning signs to the present. It is an invaluable record for all those involved and a necessary reference for future negotiations to a wide range of scholars, students and professionals.
Environment in Print
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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