Basel Convention

The experimental two-city format was the show organizers' response to the limited size of the Basel convention center.

The provisions of the Basel convention have been integrated into the EU waste shipment regulation.

There can be little doubt that this dumping was in breach of EU law and the Basel Convention.

The Basel Convention in 1989 was a treaty signed by 105 countries that was supposed to regulate the international shipping of toxics.

In addition, the Bangladeshi Minister for the Environment has three months to lay down rules, complying with the Basel Convention, for the recycling of ships for scrapping.

This allows, among other things, the OECD countries to continue trading in wastes with countries like the United States that have not ratified the Basel Convention.

Apart from working with youth at the grassroots, SWAY sought to ensure African youth representation and participation in the Basel Convention and other global organizations for solid waste management.

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is a global environmental agreement on hazardous and other wastes.

"Toxic Trade: International Knowledge Networks & the Development of the Basel Convention," Jason Lloyd, International Public Policy Review, UCL link.

The Joint Statement by the USA and the USSR (the superpowers of the time) was made to counteract state activity to restrict the passage of ships carrying potentially hazardous materials through states' territorial sea, culminating mainly from the Basel Convention 1989.

The Secretariats of the Basel Convention, the Rotterdam Convention and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the three leading global chemicals and waste management instruments, provide the measures, new initiatives and solutions to deal with the growing problems of hazardous chemicals and wastes.