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Compliance with the Basel Convention, the Montreal Protocol, the Rotterdam Convention and the Stockholm Convention on hazardous waste and other chemicals

Source: UNEP(United Nations Environment Programme)

Geographical Area: Total

Sub-indicators: Percent(%)

Data type

Estimated data by international organizations (Type2)
This is Korean data prepared by international organizations through estimation and modeling.
If there are no national data corresponding to UN SDGs indicators, international data are available for monitoring.
Indicator name

Number of parties to international multilateral environmental agreements on hazardous waste, and other chemicals that meet their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by each relevant agreement
Data name

Compliance with the Basel Convention, the Montreal Protocol, the Rotterdam Convention and the Stockholm Convention on hazardous waste and other chemicals
Definition

The indicator refers to the number of parties (countries that have ratified, accepted, approved or accessed) to five Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), which have submitted relevant information to the Secretariat of each MEA, as stipulated by each of the agreements.

The five MEAs are:
1. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel Convention);

2. The Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides

in international trade (Rotterdam Convention); 3. The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm Convention);

4. The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol); and

* Minamata Convention on Mercury (Minamata Convention), which have submitted the information to the Secretariat of each MEA, as required by each of the agreements.
Data collection

A country’s score is calculated based on the amount of information transmitted to the convention secretariat.
Organizations

UNEP(United Nations Environment Programme)
Periodicity

Every 5 years
Metadata https://kostat-sdg-kor.github.io/sdg-indicators/public/data/Metadata-12-04-01_ENG.pdf opens in a new window

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

Indicator name

Number of parties to international multilateral environmental agreements on hazardous waste, and other chemicals that meet their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by each relevant agreement
Target name

By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
Organizations

UNEP(United Nations Environment Programme)
Metadata https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-12-04-01.pdf opens in a new window