Banca de DEFESA: SEFOU MOUHAMADOU DINE AHANNOUGBE

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SEFOU MOUHAMADOU DINE AHANNOUGBE
DATE: 29/04/2024
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: remoto
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KEY WORDS:

Movement of electronic waste, precautionary principle, international co-operation, circular economy, extended producer responsibility.

PAGES: 131
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Ciências Ambientais
SUMMARY:

With the emergence of new technologies have come new challenges, including waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The generation of this waste has grown dramatically in recent decades, making WEEE a considerable part of the waste generated globally. The proper treatment of this waste is an issue that needs attention, as it can cause damage to the environment and human health. Thus, developed countries, the biggest producers of this equipment and its waste, have adopted regulations dictating rules on its management, which has led to a rise in the cost of management. This has led to a new phenomenon, the transfer of this waste to countries where legislation is less strict and management is mostly carried out in the informal sector in an inadequate manner, such as Benin. To solve this problem, in 1989 the international community adopted the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal. Despite the existence of this agreement, and others such as Bamako (1991), the transfer of WEEE to the countries of the South has only grown. In Benin, there is currently no specific legislation governing the movement and treatment of this waste, although the country is party to the aforementioned agreements. The studies that have already been carried out use the lack of law as the main reason for the continuity and abundance of WEEE in the country, placing the mere fact of the existence of the Basel convention as sufficient to prevent cross-border movements. They have not questioned the efficiency of the convention, either from the context of its adoption or from its substantive text. This dissertation has therefore set out to analyze the reasons for the continued illegal movement of WEEE in Benin, in addition to the domestic legislation reasons that are always mentioned in research. During the negotiations on the convention, the parties failed to reach an agreement, and the final text of the Basel Convention did not take into account the wishes of all the parties, especially those of the African countries to ban the shipment of this waste to their territories. Developed countries found a free hand to send their WEEE through donations to developing countries. Process tracing made it possible to place the debate in a broader historical-political context, which made it possible to see inconsistencies in the convention's provisions in relation to the country's internal conditions, which may be linked to continuity.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2453370 - DORIS ALEIDA VILLAMIZAR SAYAGO
Interna - 3579024 - IZABEL CRISTINA BRUNO BACELLAR ZANETI
Externo ao Programa - 2316997 - RUDI HENRI VAN ELS - UnBExterna à Instituição - JUDITE MEDINA DO NASCIMENTO - Uni-CV