By its decision SC-5/11, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention forwarded the report of a study entitled “Climate change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts”, to the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee, to consider the possible implications of the inter-linkages between climate change and persistent organic pollutants for the Committee’s work.
The above report was the outcome of a review of existing information and data on the inter-linkages between climate and persistent organic pollutants from a global perspective, undertaken by an expert group to support the work of the global monitoring plan implemented under the Convention related to the effects of long-range transport and climate on observed levels of persistent organic pollutants. The study is available on the Convention website (https://chm.pops.int/tabid/1580/Default.aspx).
At its seventh meeting held in October 2011, the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee concluded that a better understanding of the inter-linkages between persistent organic pollutants and climate change was relevant for its work. The Committee thus established an intersessional working group to develop guidance on how to consider the possible impact of climate change on its work and requested the working group to focus its work on the above-mentioned study and other relevant literature. The intersessional working group accordingly developed a draft guidance on the possible impact of climate change on the work of the Committee.
Documents
The following documents were sent from the Secretariat to the Official Contact Points and National Focal Points:
Parties and observers are invited to review and provide technical comments on the draft guidance on the possible impact of climate change on the work of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee by 30 June 2012.
Submissions will be appreciated in electronic files by e-mail to:
ssc@pops.int and awarmuth@pops.int.
Should this not be possible please forward hard copies to:
Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention
Att: POPs Review Committee
Ms. Andrea Warmuth
United Nations Environment Programme
11-13 chemin des Anémones
CH-1219, Chatelaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 8098
If you have any further questions regarding this invitation or if you would like to receive hard copies of the documents from the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Andrea Warmuth (e-mail: awarmuth@pops.int; telephone +41 22 917 8853).
Comments on the draft guidance on the possible impact of climate change on the work of the POPRC