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Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… black list heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury, persistent organic compounds such as organohalogens and organochlorines …
20 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Vessel-Based Sources of Marine Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… under specified conditions. It prohibited discharge of persistent oil or oily mixtures of greater than 100 parts per …
20 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

UNEP Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… Organisation PIC Prior Informed Consent POPs Persistent Organic Pollutants SBI Subsidiary Body for Implementation … or Rotterdam Convention); the 2001 Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Convention or Stockholm …
20 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… 72 4.1.5. Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm Convention) ......... 75 4.1.6. … from water;275 and eroded soil is an important water pollutant. The convention’s linkage to water is further …
20 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Factsheet - Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities

… environment, specifically those resulting from sewage, persistent organic pollutants, radioactive substances, heavy metals, … have the global conventions on Prior Informed Consent and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Activities supported by …
20 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

The Law of the Sea

… to the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants of 2001. …
20 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… UNEP/FAO/PIC/CONF/5 Stockholm Convention Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 22 May 2001, Depositary Notification … agreements such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants also address the issue of …
20 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… Convention84 (not yet in force) and the Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Convention)85; (b) Pollution from … in force; doc. UNGA Res. 51/229 (1997). 85 Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, Stockholm, 22 May 2001. In …
20 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India

… clearly depends on the vegetation type, species mix, the organic matter content of the species, the age distribution, … blocks across 25 States of India) indicated high levels of organic pollution, low oxygen levels for aquatic organisms, … Meitei Loktak Development Authority vegetation and organic matter are a characteristic feature of the wetland …
20 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… Convention on Mercury, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCC. GEF funding helps … little fertilizer, the seed therefore is better suited to organic farming than seed from modern varieties, and also may …
20 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity