The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal; Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade; and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants together constitute an international framework governing chemicals and wastes throughout their life-cycle.

 

The Basel Convention is the most comprehensive global environmental agreement on hazardous wastes and other wastes. To date, the Convention has 187 Parties and aims to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects resulting from the generation, management, transboundary movements and disposal of hazardous and other wastes.

 

The Rotterdam Convention is an international agreement aimed at protecting human health and the environment from the potentially harmful effects of certain hazardous chemicals, including some pesticides and industrial chemicals. The Convention, which has 161 Parties, works by promoting shared responsibility and cooperative efforts in the international trade of chemicals, and by facilitating information exchange about chemicals that have been banned or severely restricted in certain countries.

 

The Stockholm Convention, with 182 Parties, is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), which are highly dangerous, long-lasting chemicals, by restricting and ultimately eliminating their production, use, trade, release and storage.

 

This page is intended to foster awareness on wastes and chemicals issues and, in particular, on the work undertaken within the context of these three Conventions to address these issues.

 

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