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Scientific Assessment Report - UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution - Summary for policy makers
… concentrations of ozone, mercury and several persistent organic pollutants in Europe and North America are influenced … year (Source: ICP-Materials). Heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants are known for their toxicity and have … transport of its precursors: NOx, volatile organic compounds (VOC) and methane. Local actions alone will …
Protecting human health and the environment: A guide to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals and pesticides
… the bay for decades in the plant's wastewater and, in the organic form of methyl mercury, it had entered the food … desperately striving both to industrialize and to raise farming yields, and sometimes they use chemicals they don't … is aimed at halting the use of hazardous persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and at coping with their widespread …