Resource Pointer #383: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

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Resource Pointer #383: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

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Resource Pointer #383: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

May 3, 2005

 

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate

publishers or organizations directly.

 

The IPEN Global Week of Action & COP1 Handbook, 2005* International

POPs Elimination Network (IPEN). Published for the First Conference of

Parties (COP1) to the Stockholm Convention on POPs in Uruguay May 2-6,

2005. This handbook outlines four critical topics of discussion at the

meeting: minimizing POPs by-products, disposing of POPs waste, preparing

national dioxin inventory, and adding additional POPs to the convention.

Also includes information on the IPEN " Keep the Promise " campaign,

which urges nations to fully implement the treaty. Available as a free

download at:

http://ipen.ecn.cz/index.php?z= & l=en & k=news & r=viewtxt & id=105 & id_rubriky=2.

 

Contact IPEN International Coordinator, Bjorn Beeler; phone +1 (202)

785-8700; email BjornBeeler. Contact website

http://www.ipen.org/.

 

*Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Global Issue, A Global Response,

2002* US EPA. This booklet was created to raise awareness about the

health

and environmental impacts of (POPs), to show what actions the United

States and some other countries have taken to address these pollutants,

and to describe the actions set into motion by the Stockholm Convention

to address this issue globally. 23 pages. Available as a free download

at http://www.epa.gov/oia/toxics/brochure.html. Contact U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International Affairs

(2610R), 1200

Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20460; phone (202) 564-6613; fax

(202) 565-2411 or (202) 565-2408; email oiainternet-comments;

website http://www.epa.gov/oia/.

 

*Ban Lindane Now! Web site* http://www.panna.org/Lindane, an

organochlorine pesticide is a candidate for addition to the list of

banned

chemicals under the Stockholm Convention because of its persistence in

the

environment and in people. This website contains information about

lindane, safer alternatives, targeted state campaigns to ban the

chemical,

and ways to get involved. Contact Pesticide Action Network North America,

49 Powell Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94102; phone (415)

981-6205; fax (415) 981-1991; email panna. (Our main PANNA web

site is currently offline. We anticipate it to be available again by

Wednesday, May 4, 2005.)

 

*Stockholm Convention: New POPs, Screening Additional POPs Candidates,

2005* World Wildlife Fund. Lists 20 chemicals that WWF recommends for

addition to the Stockholm Convention. The report focuses on how specific

POPs--pesticides, brominated flame retardants, perfluorinated

compounds--meet the screening criteria. All POPs share four

characteristics:

they are toxic; they are persistent; they accumulate in body fat; they

can

travel great distances. Available as a free download at

http://www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/pubs.cfm/.Contact Lin Li, World

Wildlife Fund; 1250 24th Street, NW; Washington DC 20037; phone (202)

778-9627; fax (202) 530-0743; website

http://www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/;

email lin.li.

 

*Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), 2005*

website http://www.pops.int/. The United Nations Environmental Programme

(UNEP) official web site for the POPs Programme contains meeting

documents for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) and

subsidiary bodies, plans and guides for implementation, and registries of

chemicals listed under the treaty. Can be viewed in Arabic, Chinese,

English,

French, Russian or Spanish. Contact Secretariat for the Stockholm

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 11-13 Chemin des

Anemones, 1219

Chatelaine, Geneva, Switzerland; phone +4122 917 8191; fax +4122 797

3460; email ssc.

 

We encourage those interested in having resources listed in the PANUPS

Resource Pointer to send review copies of publications, videos or other

resources to our office.

 

PANUPS is a weekly email news service providing resource guides and

reporting on pesticide issues that don't always get coverage by the

mainstream media. It's produced by Pesticide Action Network North

America, a

non-profit and non-governmental organization working to advance

sustainable alternatives to pesticides worldwide.

 

You can join our efforts! We gladly accept donations for our work and

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