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DRAFT RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION: EA I/
COMMITTEE: Council of Arab Environmental Affairs Ministers
TOPIC: Modifying waste management practices along river systems
SPONSOR: Qatar
Aware that the impacts of waste are widespread, and cumulatively it causes many of the global environmental problems that we are currently facing, and therefore it is an issue that needs immediate attention at the local and national level,
Keeping in mind the Protection of the quality and supply of freshwater resources as well as the application of integrated approaches to the development,
management and use of water resources,
Noting that a critical element of the protection of oceans and other water bodies is effective waste management,
Recognizing that improved environmental management of coastal cities is a beneficial approach to this problem,
Be it hereby resolved that the League of Arab States:
1. Emphasizes developing countries to cooperate through financial support, to maximize control and reduction of substances and wastes that are toxic, persistent or liable to bio-accumulate and to establish environmentally sound land-based waste disposal alternatives to river dumping;
2. Demands governments that solid waste generated in urban areas are to be collected and recycled or disposed of in an environmentally safe way;
3. Calls for the adoption of production processes making optimal use of natural resources, by recycling biomass, recovering energy and minimizing waste generation, as well as the use of biotechnologies, with emphasis on bio-remediation of land and water, waste treatment, soil conservation, reforestation, afforestation and land rehabilitation;
4. Encourages governments to initiate programmes to achieve sustained minimization of waste generation. Non-governmental organizations and consumer groups should be encouraged to participate in such programmes,which could be drawn up with the cooperation of international organizations, where necessary; and
5. Deeply urges all member states to implement the said modifications.
RESOLUTION: EA I/
COMMITTEE: Council of Arab Environmental Affairs Ministers
TOPIC: Modifying waste management practices along river systems
SPONSOR: Qatar
Aware that the impacts of waste are widespread, and cumulatively it causes many of the global environmental problems that we are currently facing, and therefore it is an issue that needs immediate attention at the local and national level,
Keeping in mind the Protection of the quality and supply of freshwater resources as well as the application of integrated approaches to the development,
management and use of water resources,
Noting that a critical element of the protection of oceans and other water bodies is effective waste management,
Recognizing that improved environmental management of coastal cities is a beneficial approach to this problem,
Be it hereby resolved that the League of Arab States:
1. Emphasizes developing countries to cooperate through financial support, to maximize control and reduction of substances and wastes that are toxic, persistent or liable to bio-accumulate and to establish environmentally sound land-based waste disposal alternatives to river dumping;
2. Demands governments that solid waste generated in urban areas are to be collected and recycled or disposed of in an environmentally safe way;
3. Calls for the adoption of production processes making optimal use of natural resources, by recycling biomass, recovering energy and minimizing waste generation, as well as the use of biotechnologies, with emphasis on bio-remediation of land and water, waste treatment, soil conservation, reforestation, afforestation and land rehabilitation;
4. Encourages governments to initiate programmes to achieve sustained minimization of waste generation. Non-governmental organizations and consumer groups should be encouraged to participate in such programmes,which could be drawn up with the cooperation of international organizations, where necessary; and
5. Deeply urges all member states to implement the said modifications.