AT UN CONFERENCE, COUNTRIES BOOST PROTECTION AGAINST HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS AND WASTE

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AT UN CONFERENCE, COUNTRIES BOOST PROTECTION AGAINST HAZARDOUS
CHEMICALS AND WASTENew York, May 13 2013 4:00PMRepresentatives from
170 countries have
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series of measures to strengthen protections against hazardous
chemicals and waste during a United Nations conference in Geneva.

The conference, organized by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and
the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), brought together three UN
conventions – the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm treaties – that
together regulate chemicals and hazardous waste, and sought to promote
synergies among them.

The three autonomous Conventions convened the joint meeting to
strengthen cooperation and collaboration between the Parties to the
treaties, with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of their
activities on the ground. Each Convention then continued individually
over the two-week period to deal with its own specific topics of the
global chemicals and waste agenda before returning in a joint session
at the end of the week to finalize their outcomes.

In a press conference, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said the
meeting was "a unique historic event coming at a time of unprecedented
change and progress in the arena of global environmental governance.
The strengthening of UNEP and the synergies process of chemicals and
waste multilateral environmental agreements are complementary parts of
the ongoing reform to fortify the environmental dimension of
sustainable development."

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva noted that countries need
to find more sustainable ways to produce food while using chemical
pesticides responsibly.

"Around 70 per cent of the chemicals addressed by the Basel, Rotterdam
and Stockholm Conventions are pesticides, and many are used in
agriculture," he said. "It is in the best interest of all countries to
ensure that the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions can work
together, effectively and efficiently, to address various aspects of
the chemical life-cycle."

Mr. Steiner and Mr. Graziano da Silva, along with Global Environment
Facility CEO Naoko Ishii also pledged to deepen cooperation and
collaboration as part of a broader effort to raise the profile of
chemicals and waste issues, promote green growth and alleviate
poverty.

On Friday, the conference hailed the "Geneva Statement on the Sound
Management of Chemicals and Waste" which welcomed the UNEP-led
consultative process on financing options for chemicals and waste.

"The Parties have agreed to strengthen capacity building and technical
assistance for countries by investing the savings realized over the
past two years into an enhanced technical assistance programme that
better meets the needs of developing countries and countries with
economies in transition" said Jim Willis, Executive Secretary of the
Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. "In an era of financial
austerity, we have learned through synergies how to deliver more to
parties while living within the economic limits faced by governments
today."


The Parties also adopted a framework for the environmentally sound
management of hazardous wastes and other wastes, and agreed, over the
next two years, to develop technical guidelines on movements across
borders of electronic and electrical wastes.

The Basel Convention regulates the export and import of hazardous
waste and waste containing hazardous chemicals. It was adopted in 1989
and entered into force in 1992. It currently has 180 Parties.

The Rotterdam Convention regulates information about the export and
import of 47 hazardous chemicals listed in the Convention's Annex III,
33 of which are pesticides and 14 of which are industrial chemicals.
It was adopted in 1998 and entered into force in 2004. It currently
has 152 Parties.

Adopted in 2001, the Stockholm Convention regulates 23 toxic
substances that are persistent, travel long distances, accumulate in
organisms and are toxic. The treaty entered into force in 2004. It
currently has 179 Parties.May 13 2013 4:00PM
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