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Establishes a common understanding of what environmentally sound management encompasses and identifies tools and strategies to ensure that hazardous wastes and other wastes are managed in a manner which will protect human health and the environment against adverse effects which may result from such wastes (Article 2 of the Basel Convention).
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Multilateral environment agreements tagged with Environmentally sound management of waste
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Basel Convention | 30 decisions |
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Stockholm Convention | 5 decisions |
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United Nations Environment Assembly | 1 decision |