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At its tenth meeting in 2011, the Conference of the Parties recognized that despite
efforts taken and progress achieved in the first twenty years of the Basel
Convention, the volume of hazardous and other wastes continued to increase on a
global level, and transboundary movements of hazardous and other wastes had
not diminished. To address the resulting threats to human health and the
environment, the Conference of the Parties adopted the Cartagena Declaration on
the Prevention, Minimization and Recovery of Hazardous Waste and Other
Wastes. Parties thereby committed to actively promote and implement more
efficient waste prevention and minimization strategies, to take measures to
decouple economic growth and environmental impacts, and to encourage more
systematic and comprehensive global and regional efforts for improved access to
cleaner production methods, including through capacity building and technology
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