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Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols

… reduced by 70 per cent, emissions of non-methane volatile organic compounds have been cut by 50 per cent and nitrogen … a wider array of pollutants including ground-level ozone, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and, most … dibenzofurans PCN Polychlorinated naphtalenes PEMA Pollutant emission management area PF Pulverized fuel PFBC …
20 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Transboundary Air Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Smog is formed from the reaction of sunlight, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and NO . VOCs come from a variety of … Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants (the 1998 POPs Protoco”) was … policy by specifically including the short-lived climate pollutant black carbon (or soot) as a component of particular …
20 May 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

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

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

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

3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… dynamics, Impact on carbon and nutrient cycling: soil organic carbon dynamics, greenhouse gas emission and feedback … a whole with Nkambe plateau inclusive is attributed to a persistent reduction of water supply and to the likelihood … In the three studied depths in the 4 sampling sites pollutant concentrations were higher in the horizon layer …
20 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

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