POP Air Pollution Protocol
- POP Air Pollution Protocol
The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an agreement to provide for the control and reduction of emissions of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in order to reduce their transboundary fluxes so as to protect human health and the environment from adverse effects.
It opened for signature on 1998-06-24 and entered into force on 2003-10-23.
Twenty-seven countries and the European Union have ratified the treaty and a further nine have signed but not yet ratified.
References
* [http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap/status/98pop_st.htm Status of Ratification]
ee also
* Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
* environmental agreements
* International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
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