Managing chemicals together.Representatives of the world's governments, intergovernmental groups, and other stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. met in Vienna in September 2005 to finalize the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM SAICM Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management ). SAICM is a framework for global policy on chemical hazards and will ensure that by 2020 chemicals are manufactured and used in ways that minimize impacts on the environment and human health--a goal outlined at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development Sustainable development is a socio-ecological process characterized by the fulfilment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the natural environment indefinitely. The linkage between environment and development was globally recognized in 1980, when the International Union . SAICM also promotes capacity building, technology transfer, and improved chemicals management, allowing better implementation of international treaties on chemicals such as the Basel Convention The Basel Convention (verbose: Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal) is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous and Other Wastes. Three core documents from the Vienna meeting are expected to be adopted at a February 2006 conference in Dubai. |
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