Recalling its decision 26/12 of 24 February 2011 on enhancing cooperation and coordination
within the chemicals and wastes cluster,
Recalling also that, in that decision, it requested the Executive Director to provide input to the
Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and to present
a progress report on the consultative process on financing options for chemicals and wastes to the
Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum at its twelfth special session and a report
on the outcome of the consultative process to the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment
Forum at its twenty-seventh session,
Having considered the progress report submitted by the Executive Director on the
implementation of Governing Council decision 26/12,11
1. Notes the progress made and the activities carried out to date by the Executive Director
in the implementation of decision 26/12;
2. Takes note of the adoption of decisions BC-10/29, RC-5/12 and SC-5/27 by the
conferences of the parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of
Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent
Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade and the Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, respectively, on enhancing cooperation and coordination
among those conventions;
3. Reiterates its request to the Executive Director to facilitate and support an inclusive,
country-driven consultative process on the challenges to and options for further enhancing cooperation
and coordination in the chemicals and wastes cluster in the long term;
4. Urges Governments and other stakeholders in a position to do so to contribute
extrabudgetary resources for the conduct of the process referred to in paragraph 3 above;
5. Invites the participants at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to
promote recognition of the importance of the sound management of chemicals and wastes for human
health and the environment.