Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants: The 1998 Agreement for the UNECE Region

2006 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Bull
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽  
Transboundary Air Pollution

The role of environmental science and politics in identifying persistent organic pollutants for international regulatory actions

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Selin ◽  
Olof Hjelm
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Transboundary Air Pollution ◽  
Science And Politics

The aim of the present study is to describe and analyze the character of the interplay between environmental science and policy-making in the process of identifying persistent organic pollutants (POPs) for initial inclusion in the POPs Protocol under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The objective of the CLRTAP POPs Protocol is to control, reduce, or eliminate discharges, emissions, and losses of organic compounds that are toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative, and prone to long-range atmospheric transport and deposition within the CLRTAP region, which covers North America and Europe, including the European region of the former Soviet Union. The empirical materials used were documents underlying decisions and personal observations at seven CLRTAP POPs meetings. In order to describe and analyze the role of environmental science and politics in identifying an initial list of regulated substances, we have chronologically recapitulated the CLRTAP POPs process leading up to the adoption of the POPs Protocol. Our work was guided by two research questions: What was the strength of the interplay and were there any key events of interplay? Our analysis revealed a strong interplay between environmental science and policy-making throughout the process, mutually (but not always equally) affecting each other. We have identified four events of interplay that were of significance for the final outcome: the initial problem identification, the selection of CLRTAP as a forum for cooperative actions, the screening of possible protocol POPs, and finally, the concluding protocol negotiations.Key words: Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, negotiations, persistent organic pollutants, risk assessment.

scholarly journals Migration of pentachlorophenol in artificial and natural sediments of Puck Bay

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Maciak ◽  
Krzysztof Lewandowski ◽  
Elżbieta Niemirycz
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Bottom Sediments ◽  
Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽  
Stockholm Convention ◽  
Harmful Substance ◽  
Transboundary Air Pollution ◽  
The Status ◽  
Puck Bay

AbstractPentachlorophenol (PCP) is an anthropogenic substance, toxic to humans. The major source of this compound in the environment are wastes from factories producing PCP and materials (textiles, wood) treated with PCP. In 2008, a dossier was prepared to support the inclusion of PCP in Annex I to the Protocol of the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants. The draft decision to add PCP along with its salts (NaPCP) and esters (PCPL) in Annex A of the Stockholm Convention was adopted during the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention in 2015. The aim of present study was to assess the status of contamination in Puck Bay with this harmful substance. The surface bottom sediments of Puck Bay were contaminated with pentachlorophenol to varying degrees, ranging from 17.4 ± 5.6 ng g

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