THE NEEDS OF LISTING NEW POPS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

摘要

There are more than 12 new POPs being listed to the Stockholm Convention. Some of the candidate POPs are active chemicals and still used widely especially in developing countries. The technical approach for evaluating the listing new POPs is following Annex D, E, and F of the Stockholm Convention. The technical approach does include scientific and technical details, and also includes economical and social details relating to the controlling of candidate POPs. It is not only the gap of scientific research making the assessment of candidate POPs unbalance between developed and developing countries due to lacking of data in developing countries, but also the gap of availabilities of alternatives for candidate POPs. The involvement of developing countries from scientific bases is essential to help the assessment of new POPs real globally. The needs of listing new POPs for developing countries include: (1) capacity building on assessment of new POPs; (2) conducting research on assessment of new POPs, especially at scientific and technical and alternative aspects; (3) institution strengthening on policy, regulation and management related to new POPs and chemicals; (4) conducting alternative research and development; and (5) promoting technologies on release reduction and waste sound management of new POPs.