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Partnerships are designed
to help governments and stakeholders more effectively
address growing problems with priority waste
streams. The Ministerial Statement on Partnerships
emphasises the importance of Partnerships and
the waste streams they should be used to address.
Public-Private partnerships
are a creative method for government and stakeholders
to collectively address emerging issues and activities
associated with priority waste streams such as
e-waste. Involving all stakeholders helps to:
- Enhance collaboration
- Tap expertise and knowledge at a broader level
- Bring together experts and policy makers to develop guidance and guidelines together, leveraging scare resources at all levels and
- Reduce costs by working together to identify options and solutions and developing needed tools and strategy to enhance the environmentally sound management of end of life products.
Distinct from other mechanisms of the Convention given their cooperative nature and structure, partnerships can be used to address complex and emerging waste streams by creating a forum under which a range of decision-makers are committed to providing technically viable options and suggest policy solutions.
Public-Private Partnerships under the Basel Convention are unique way for stakeholders to meet together to address, inter alia, common areas of concern, define technical issues, set out technical and policy options and provide input to technical and policy reviews. Partnerships offer a mechanism for enhancing and capitalizing on the dialog and practical interaction between stakeholders to address particular issues. Often the result is a voluntary action avoiding the initiation legislation or regulation by government.
Ministers recognized this and adopted the 1999 Basel Ministerial Declaration emphasizing the vital importance of Public- Private Partnerships. In 2002, the Conference of the Parties (COP) adopted the Basel Convention Partnership Programme. The COP tasked the Secretariat with carrying out a work programme on public-private partnerships in cooperation will all relevant and interested parties. See also Strategic Plan of the Basel Convention and Brochure on Partnership,
and presentations
from the side event, 3 September 2007 on Partnerships
and E-waste.
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 The Basel Convention Partnership Programme - Public-private partnerships are voluntary
and creative mechanisms that support the work
of the Convention by offering forums for dialogue
and practical action by all stakeholders. They
are comprised of all levels of government, industry
and business sectors, nongovernmental organizations,
academia and other international institutions
and bodies, for open and frank dialogue in action.
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| Relevant Decisions |
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Decisions: V/13
(COP5), VI/32
(COP6), VII/3
(COP7), VIII/2
(COP8), VIII/5
(COP8), IX/8
(COP9), OEWG-I/6
(OEWG1), OEWG-II/9
(OEWG2), OEWG-III/2
(OEWG3), OEWG-IV/1
(OEWG4), OEWG-V/2
(OEWG5), OEWG-VI/19
(OEWG 6), IX/7 (COP)
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| Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE) |
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The Partnership
for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE) was
launched at the Ninth Meeting of the Conference
of the Parties to the Basel Convention, which took
place in Bali, Indonesia from 23 to 27 June 2008.
PACE is a multi-stakeholder partnership that
provides a forum for governments, industry,
non-governmental organisations and academia to
tackle the environmentally sound management, refurbishment,
recycling and disposal of used and end-of-life
computing equipment.
The
Partnership is intended to increase the environmentally
sound management of used and end-of-life computing
equipment, taking into account social responsibility
and the concept of sustainable development, and
promoting the sharing of information on life
cycle thinking.
Parties, signatories and
all stakeholders are invited to indicate their
interest in participating in the Partnership
to the Secretariat of the Basel Convention at
the following address: sbc@unep.ch.
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