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Written by Alf Magne Horneland
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The United Nations Environmental Program, UNEP, is the mother organization for three different important conventions, namely the Stockholm Convention, the Rotterdam Convention and the Basel Convention, each of them with its own secretariat.
The three related secretariats work closely together and stands behind numerous decisions for complementing each others mandate in the field of environment protection.
Especially the Basel Convention is important, with its guidelines for ship scrapping, and with its participation in a joint working group with ILO and IMO as the other partners.
ILO, IMO and Basel Convention has three different approaches to ship scrapping, the Basel Convention looking into the environmental risks, the ILO looking into the people in the industry that dismantle the ships, and the IMO looking into the design, construction, operation and preparation for sound recycling.
Preparation of guidelines is an important obligation for the secretariates, as is the sharing common facilities for regional centres. Recent development of finding synergy in joint implementation between three Conventions (Basel, PIC and SC) is underway, through the establishement of a joint working group.
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Last Updated on Monday, 02 August 2010 21:00 |
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