On 30 July 2024 (14:00-16:00 CEST), the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) hosted the online webinar "Navigating the Production, Use, and Trade of New POPs (2009-2022) with Key International Databases and Statistics".
The session offered a comprehensive overview of the production, use, and trade of newly listed persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and guided participants on accessing relevant international databases and statistics. It highlighted the importance of understanding production quantities and key periods for effective inventory, prioritization, and management of POPs. During the webinar, the report on "Production, Use, and Trade of POPs Newly Listed in the Stockholm Convention 2009 to 2022" by UNEP was presented.
Objectives:
- To provide an overview of the historical and current production and use of POPs, which shall serve as a basis for developing and evaluating inventories for the National Implementation Plans.
- To provide information on which POPs are still produced and used in new products and which POPs have stocks in use subject to recycling and circular economy.
- To provide information on accessing relevant publications, international databases, and statistics on POPs production, trade, and use.
Target audience:
- Stockholm Convention Official Contact Points and National Focal Points
- National officials and experts involved in reviewing and updating NIPs
- Practitioners working on POPs inventory and management
- Members of NIP National Coordinating Mechanism/Committees and Project Coordination Units/Thematic Task Groups
- Representatives of regional executing agencies and relevant stakeholders
Agenda
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14:00 |
1. Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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Ms. Anastasiya Buchok, Senior Project Assistant, GGKP |
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14:10 |
Part A: Accessing information on POPs production, use, and trade in international databases |
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14:45 |
Part B: Overview of industrial POPs, including brominated flame retardants, fluorinated POPs, and short-chain chlorinated paraffins (14:30 CEST) |
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15:30 |
Part C: Production, use, and trade of newly listed POPs pesticide |
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15:50 |
Q&A session and closing remarks |
Please feel free to watch the record of the webinar:
In Russian: https://www.greenpolicyplatform.org/ZA5
In French: https://www.greenpolicyplatform.org/ZAf
In Spanish: https://www.greenpolicyplatform.org/ZAq
This event was organized within the framework of Component 4 of GEF-funded and UNEP-led project (ID 10785) "Global Development, Review and Update of National Implementation Plans (NIPs) under the Stockholm Convention (SC) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)"