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Scientific Assessment Report - UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution - Summary for policy makers

… Background concentrations of ozone, mercury and several persistent organic pollutants in Europe and North America are influenced … efficient and was the reason to develop a so-called multi-pollutant-multi- effect approach, including SO2, NOx, NH3, …
20 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention

… exposure to carcinogens such as dioxins and furans; (b) Persistent organic pollutants and other obsolete pesticides and heavy … Convention on Climate Change; (c) Global impacts of persistent organic pollutants will be reduced through efforts …
20 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Recycling used lead-acid batteries: health considerations (WHO)

… It has an affinity for sulfhydryl groups and other organic ligands in proteins and can mimic other biologically … clumsiness and intermittent lethargy. This may progress to persistent vomiting, ataxia, convulsions, severe cerebral … 2017). Blacksmith Institute (2009). The problem. In: Pollutant: Lead [website]. New York: Blacksmith Institute; …
20 May 2026 Document

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 … Convention is aimed at halting the use of hazardous persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and at coping with their widespread …
20 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Waste management for human health and livelihood

… reproductive systems, immune systems, and livers. POPs Persistent organic pollutants are a class of chemicals and pesticides …
20 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Marine plastic litter and microplastics

… to protect human health and the environment from POPs (organic chemicals that persist in the environment, …
20 May 2026 Document