BOSTON, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at ...

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (hereinafter referred to as the Stockholm Convention) was adopted and opened for signature at the Conference of Plenipotentiaries held in ...

In 2001, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollution of the United Nation’s Environment Programme named 12 POPs that it recognized as toxic to humans and the environment. It took ...

The EU has followed the example of various Member States and ratified the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) banning the use of a number of toxic chemicals. The Stockholm ...

To date, approximately 18 additional chemicals have been included in the Stockholm Convention, making the total number of POPs approximately 30. According to the requirements of the Stockholm ...

The global nature of these pollutants led the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to sponsor extensive negotiations that culminated in the signing of the Stockholm Convention on POPs in 2001.

At a meeting of Stockholm Convention treaty partners in Geneva, governments carved out exemptions that allow some applications of PFOA to continue, including use in fire-fighting foams—a ...

What does the Stockholm Convention aim to achieve? The overall objective of the convention is to protect human health and the environment from POPs.

Governments here and abroad are watching India’s stand on endosulfan at the sixth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) of Stockholm Convention that began in ...

Oluseun Badejo, Project Officer at BCCC-Africa, gave a presentation on “Basel & Stockholm Convention Guidelines for ESM of Wastes Consisting of, Containing or Contaminated with POPs,” in which ...