Persistent Organic Pollutants
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), sometimes known as "forever chemicals" are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. Because of their persistence, POPs bioaccumulate with potential adverse impacts on human health and the environment. The effect of POPs on human and environmental health was discussed, with intention to eliminate or severely restrict their production, by the international community at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001. Many POPs are currently or were in the past used as pesticides, solvents, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals. Although some POPs arise naturally (e.g. from volcanoes), most …
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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 12 March 2024 English
In global environmental talks in 2023, the focus across nearly all issue areas was funding implementation and reviewing performance.The year saw the last of the COVID pandemic-delayed milestones completed. Countries …
world’s most dangerous chemicals, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), are declining in the environment …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 22 February 2024 English
All names and claims expressed in this book of abstracts are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated …
has been studied since the 1970s, and persistent organic pollutants (POPs), PFAS, and nanomaterials have …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 15 February 2024 English
The tentative title of the paper is “Climate Variability and Ecosystem Resilience in the North Pacific; Lessons Learned from the PICES FUTURE Program.” Since a critical component of Phase III …
Paula Landim, et al. and Lauren Roman persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and plastics are and Denise …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 3 January 2024 English
Many of the recommended core indicators were selected in all ecosystems to reflect environmental and human pressures and ecosystem responses; however, not all core indicators could be examined (because, for …
coastal only coastal coastal series Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) short time will ask will ask …
CCA: Council of Canadian Academies · 29 November 2023 English
Northern Research Leadership and Equity Expert Panel on the Future of Arctic and Northern Research in Canada Northern Research Leadership and Equity Expert Panel on the Future of Arctic and …
ICC has resulted in the banning of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) through the Stockholm Convention … Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (ICC, n.d.-a). Ongoing monitoring of existing and novel POPs is … Plan: Under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Ottawa (ON): ECCC. ELOKA (Exchange … (Inuit Circumpolar Council). (n.d.-a). Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Retrieved July 2023, from https://www … vironment-sustainable- development/persistent-organic-pollutants-pops/. ICC (Inuit Circumpolar Council) …
IJC: International Joint Commission · 8 November 2023 English
Specifically, International Joint Article 5.5 of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (as amended in 2012) outlines that the governments of Canada and the United States Commission are to “review …
by 2022 year-end, but the report is persistent organic pollutants. Groundwater, and any not yet published …
ELC: Environmental Law Centre · 16 October 2023 English
Below we document how the BC placer mining regime is inconsistent with several fundamental rights defined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including: The Need …
Man Chan, “Body Burden of Metals and Persistent Organic Pollutants among Inuit in the Canadian Arctic.” …
SPI: Smart Prosperity Institute · 22 September 2023 English
Further investments in the expansion nutritious food, a lack of culturally relevant job opportunities, and development of new mine sites are likely on the horizon and inadequate housing continue to …
Eurasia.32 The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has reduced these contaminants …
INSPQ: Institut national de santé publique du Québec · 22 September 2023 English
The variability (%) indicated in the report is then calculated by replacing the standard deviation and the arithmetic mean with the robust standard deviation and the robust average of the …
DU QUÉBEC • AMAP: AMAP Ring Test for Persistent Organic Pollutants in Human Serum, since 2001 • Creatinine: …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 18 September 2023 English
http://www.pices.int/PICES-2023
Emerging contaminants of concern, new Persistent Organic Pollutants and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons … contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), new persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons … pollutants including heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and plastics are increasing … identified as key tissues for monitoring persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the circumpolar arctic (Arctic …
