Stockholm Convention on POPs to Become International Law, Launching Global Campaign to Eliminate 12 Hazardous Chemicals
From UNEP Geneva
Friday, May 14, 2004
STOCKHOLM/NAIROBI, 14 May 2004 - The 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) enters into force on Monday, 17 May, marking the start of an ambitious international effort to rid the world of PCBs, dioxins and furans, and nine highly dangerous pesticides.
"The Stockholm Convention will save lives and protect the natural environment -- particularly in the poorest communities and countries - by banning the production and use of some of the most toxic chemicals known to humankind", said Executive Klaus Toepfer of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), under whose auspices the Convention was adopted.
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