Results of meeting of POPRC-16 to Stockholm Convention
25 january, 2021
With the COVID-19 pandemic causing global disruptions, the sixteenth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Review Committee (POPRC-16) to the Stockholm Convention on POPs convened four months later than originally scheduled and online rather than in person. Despite the constraints of a virtual format, the POPRC addressed the same agenda it had planned for an in-person meeting in September 2020.
The Committee reviewed three potential POPs — methoxychlor, Dechlorane Plus, and UV-328 — and undertook work to support parties’ efforts to eliminate several substances that have already been listed in the Stockholm Convention: decabromodiphenyl ether, short-chain chlorinated paraffins, and perfluorooctanoic acid.
