The Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is a key tool for evaluating the effectiveness of the Stockholm Convention. It provides a structured approach for collecting comparable monitoring data on POPs across all regions, allowing countries to track changes in POPs concentrations over time and to better understand their regional and global environmental transport.
Monitoring activities, capacity-building, and the preparation of regional monitoring reports are carried out by regional organization groups in each of the five United Nations regions. A global coordination group oversees the overall implementation of the GMP, supports coordination among regions, and leads the preparation of the global GMP report.
GMP reports
To date, three GMP reports have been submitted to the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention:
- The first GMP report established baseline information on concentrations of the 12 initial POPs.
- The second GMP report provided early indications of trends for the 12 initial POPs and baseline data for newly listed POPs.
- The third GMP report focused on improving data comparability across monitoring programmes, enabling better assessment of time trends and regional and global transport of POPs.
Current phase: GMP-4
To support implementation of the fourth phase of the GMP (GMP-4), the global coordination group and regional organization groups have prepared and updated the following: