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Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention

… wastes are properly handled and managed. The pollution or contamination caused by the improper management of wastes can … During an extreme weather event such as a hurricane, the contamination can be massive in scale and costly to … Importation into Forum Island Countries of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to Control the Transboundary Movement …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… may be plentiful but unsuitable for human use because of contamination. This problem is becoming more serious, … or destruction; 11. Emission, outflow or burial of radioactive and toxic waste in water resources is prohibited. … or other 48 technologies associated with the discharge of radioactive and toxic substances, is prohibited. In instances …
20 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Energy law and sustainable development

… a chapter on "safe and environmentally sound management of radioactive wastes,"20 recognising that this one fuel cycle … countries, based primarily on the problems of dealing with radioactive waste, the hazards of uranium mining, and the … need to be restricted for at least a further 50 years. The contamination of foodstuffs by the Chernobyl fallout is still …
20 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

GEO yearbook 2003

… importation into member island countries of hazardous and radioactive wastesand to control the transboundary movement … Environment 2004, UNEP 2003a and b). There is concern over radioactive contamination. Depleted uranium, used in the wars of 1991 and …
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3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… mark a breakthrough in combating with desertification. Contamination of land in the oil mining regions of the … in the Chernobyl zone, has implications for the spread of radioactive contamination. Emissions of into the atmosphere … pollution of soils with heavy metals, pesticides, radioactive nuclides; secondary salinization, solonetzization …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere