Cooperative Measures to Assess and Increase Awareness of Environmental Effects Related to Waste Originating From Chemical Munitions Dumped at Sea

A/RES/68/208View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19 Sustainable development, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2011–2023

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/78/146

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2023	A/RES/78/146	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea	1,809	87%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/213	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea	1,645	59%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/220	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea	1,488	69%Compare
2014	A/RES/68/208	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea	1,070	32%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/149	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea	457	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2013–2023

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2023	A/78/276	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/213
2019	A/74/242	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/220
2016	A/71/190	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/208
2013	A/68/258	Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/149

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Chemical Weapons Environmental Protection Information Exchange International Cooperation Ocean Dumping

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General,¹⁶ including the views submitted and contained therein;

¹⁶A/68/258.

Notes the importance of raising awareness of the environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea;

Invites Member States and relevant international and regional organizations to keep under observation the issue of the waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea, to continue outreach efforts to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to that issue and to cooperate, including by strengthening existing efforts within regional seas conventions and other international, regional and subregional activities related to risk assessment, monitoring, information gathering, risk prevention and response to incidents;

Encourages voluntary sharing of information on waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea through conferences, seminars, workshops, training courses and publications aimed at the general public and industry in order to reduce related risks;

Also encourages partnerships between Governments, industry and civil society for raising awareness, reporting and monitoring of waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea;

Invites Member States in a position to do so to consider providing assistance and sharing expertise aimed at building capacities related to risk assessment, monitoring, information gathering, risk prevention and response to incidents resulting from waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea;

Invites the Secretary-General to continue to seek the views of Member States and relevant regional and international organizations on cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness of the environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea, also with a view to exploring the possibility of establishing a database¹⁷ and options for the most appropriate institutional framework for such a database, as well as identifying the appropriate intergovernmental bodies within the United Nations system for further consideration and implementation, as appropriate, of the cooperative measures envisaged in the present resolution, building on and without duplicating existing activities, and with a view to achieving efficiency and synergies, taking into account the mandates and capacities of relevant international and regional organizations;

¹⁷Such a database could contain relevant and voluntarily shared information on, inter alia, the location of dumping sites, the type, quantity and, to the extent possible, the current condition of chemical munitions, the recorded environmental impact, best practices on risk prevention and response to incidents or accidental encounters and destruction or impact reduction technologies, including by means of data collection and management.

Also invites the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session a report on the matters covered in the present resolution, prepared using responses of Member States and relevant regional and international organizations, as well as other available information.

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