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In 1995, the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (s and Furan s. When it became clear that these POPs were deadly and that urgent global action was needed, UNEP’s Governing Council created an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to prepare an internationally legally binding instrument that would “point the way to a future free of dangerous POPs”. The result of the INC’s efforts is the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. This was presented to delegates representing governments from around the world on 23rd May 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden. The Convention outlaws the dirty dozen and also establishes a system to track additional substances that can be classified as POPs, to prevent the development of new problem chemicals. EXTERNAL LINK |