The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) to protect human health and the environment from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS). POPS are hazardous due to their longevity in the environment, resulting in wide geographic distribution and bioaccumulation in living organisms. The some of the main provisions of the convention are
read moreThe Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is a Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) with the main objective of protecting human health and the environment against adverse effects caused by hazardous or other wastes which require special consideration. The main provisions of the convention are to reduce the
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