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  2. Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents

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    The Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents is a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) convention signed in Helsinki, Finland, on 17 March 1992, that entered into force on 19 April 2000. The convention is designed to protect people and the environment against industrial accidents, by aiming to prevent ...

  3. Basel Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries. [2]

  4. Global waste trade - Wikipedia

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    The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that plays a crucial role in regulating the transnational movement of hazardous wastes.

  5. Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

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    The aim of the Convention is that Parties shall endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution. Parties develop policies and strategies to combat the discharge of air pollutants through exchanges of information, consultation, research and monitoring.

  6. List of international environmental agreements - Wikipedia

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    Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Caused during Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, Rail, and Inland Navigation Vessels (CRTD), Geneva, 1989; Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, Basel, 1989

  7. Bamako Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Bamako Convention (in full: Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa) is a treaty of African nations prohibiting the import of any hazardous (including radioactive) waste.

  8. Treaty of Basel - Wikipedia

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    The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (1989) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Treaty of Basel .

  9. Transboundary Haze Pollution Act of 2014 - Wikipedia

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    The Transboundary Haze Pollution Act of 2014 (THPA) is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that criminalizes conduct which causes or contributes to haze pollution in Singapore, and to provide for related matters such as deterrence. The law is designed specifically to allow legal in suing companies for environmental pollution.