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Waste Management and Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) |
| Waste is an underlying theme in many multilateral environmental agreements, seeking justification for concerted local action, or broad global consensus. As in the 'mother-of-all-MEAs' - Agenda 21 - MEAs seek to tackle the issue of waste either directly, through the Basel, Rotterdam or Stockholm conventions, or by integrating into larger environmental issues such as Local Agenda 21 or decision-making processes.
This GDRC output is a part of its research programmes on urban environmental management, and seeks to contenxtualize and target waste action. |
 GDRC's MEA Repository |
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Basel Conventiion Secretariat of the Basel Convention: International Environment House 15 chemin des Anémones CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva SWITZERLAND Tel. (41 22) 917 82 18 Fax (41 22) 797 34 54 E-mail sbc@unep.ch Website www.basel.int |
Rotterdam Convention Interim Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention: UNEP Chemicals United Nations Environment Programme International Environment House 11-13 chemin des Anémones CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva SWITZERLAND Tel. (41 22) 917 81 11 Fax (41 22) 797 34 60 E-mail pic@unep.ch Web www.pic.int |
Stockholm Convention Interim Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention: UNEP Chemicals United Nations Environment Programme International Environment House 11-13 chemin des Anémones CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva SWITZERLAND Tel. (41 22) 917 81 11 Fax (41 22) 797 34 60 E-mail ssc@chemicals.unep.ch Website www.chem.unep.ch/sc |
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In practice however waste is truly a local issue that has to be dealt with on a daily basis. And this is where many of the local environmental agreements that are functioning at the local level are also relevant to waste management. Of particular relevance are three such tools: Local Agenda 21, Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). However none of these agreements actually deal with waste directly - indeed these agreements will have to be adopted to deal with issues related to Waste Management. Check on some of the resources that GDRC has collated: |
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Return to Urban Waste Contact: Hari Srinivas - hsrinivas@gdrc.org |