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4 marksPollution Monitoring, Policy, and International Conventions

CAPE Environmental Science Unit 2 · 2015 · Paper 2 · Question 6(c)(ii)

A newspaper headline from Kaieteur News Online (30 December 2012) reads: "CARICOM intensifies call for halt of hazardous waste shipment via Caribbean Sea".

Outline the basis of the Basel and Cartagena Conventions, and use this information to indicate which convention is better suited to address the issue of hazardous waste shipment raised in the headline.

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  1. 6(a)(i)State TWO underlying causes of pollution, other than a lack of environmental ethics.[2 marks]
  2. 6(a)(ii)Define the term 'environmental ethics'.[1 mark]
  3. 6(a)(iii)Suggest TWO reasons demonstrating how a lack of environmental ethics functions as an underlying cause of pollution.[4 marks]
  4. 6(b)Present an outline of a research project designed to determine the effectiveness of legislation introducing a deposit-refund system on plastic bottles to…[5 marks]
  5. 6(c)(i)Explain why CARICOM countries would NOT want hazardous waste shipped through the Caribbean Sea.[4 marks]

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