Stockholm Convention: Climate Change and POPS

The Stockholm Convention Secretariat, in conjunction withthe Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme has released a publication titled “Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts.” Providing an overview of the complex inter linkages between climate and POPs, the report predicts signi

ficant climate-induced changes in relation to future releases of POPs into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and human and environmental exposure, subsequently leading to higher health risks for both human populations and the environment. The report also addresses the synergies between the climate change and POPs policy agendas and identifies areas of uncertainty and existing gaps in data, information and knowledge.