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The Use of Arctic Science: POPs, the Stockholm Convention and Norway [PDF]
Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 2017 The focus in this article is on how scientific knowledge on POPs in the Arctic has been used in international regulations, and can be used today. More specifically, I explore Norway’s active (and successful) nominations over the past decade of new POPs ...
Svein Vigeland Rottem
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Stockholm Convention on Pops: Obligations and Implementation
, 2007 The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants requires Parties to implement certain measures to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants by eliminating or reducing production, use, and releases of these chemicals. The global treaty involves politics and economics, but also science and technology to resolve
Fiedler, Heidelore,
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National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention Sweden : Update 2017
, 2017 The objective of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is to protect human health and the environment from the substances listed in the Con-vention. Under the Convention, each Party is to develop and endeavour to imple-ment a plan for the fulfillment of its Convention obligations.
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Research status and regulatory challenges of persistent organic pollutants in Sierra Leone
Scientific African, 2021 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are harmful substances that pose an unreasonable risk to human health and the environment. An international consensus was reached in 2001 to regulate the production, distribution, use and disposal of POPs under the ...
Ishmail Sheriff +3 more
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The Stockholm Convention: A Tool for the Global Regulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants [PDF]
Chemistry International, 2019 Abstract The aim of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is to eliminate persistent organic chemicals worldwide by either prohibiting their production and use or gradually reducing them. The Stockholm Convention was adopted in 2001 and entered into force in 2004, 90 days after receiving
Fiedler, Heidelore +3 more
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European cooperation to tackle the legacies of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) and lindane
Emerging Contaminants, 2022 Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) waste isomers from lindane production are the largest single POPs legacy, with an estimated 4.8 to 7.4 million tonnes of disposed waste.
John Vijgen +6 more
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Human body burden of persistent organic pollutants in breast milk in China
Zhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2020 Human breast milk is recommended by World Health Organization as an ideal matrix for conducting human biological monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). And it is the main matrix to evaluate the efficacy of performing Stockholm Convention. In
Lei ZHANG +3 more
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Emerging Contaminants, 2020 Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) have been produced for a wide range of applications, mostly in open uses, such as metalworking fluids, lubricants, coolants or additives in consumer goods.
Yago Guida, Raquel Capella, Roland Weber
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From Arctic Science to Global Policy – Addressing Multiple Stressors Under the Stockholm Convention
Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 2021 Rapid climate change in the Arctic triggers the remobilization of chemical pollution, increasing its exposure and potential impacts in the region. While scientific knowledge on multiple stressors, including the interlinkages between climate change and ...
Eirik Hovland Steindal +4 more
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European Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the right to a healthy environment [PDF]
Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2023 The right to a healthy environment is not explicitly mentioned in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms from 1950. The mentioned right is more recent and belongs to human rights of the third generation In the
Kostić Jelena
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