Press Releases and Press Clippings or Archive

POPs INC1 : INFORMATION KIT - MONTREAL 1998      English, French, Spanish
POPs INC3 : Opening remarks delivered by the Executive Director of UNEP
POPs INCs   : Press Coverage order form
POPs INC4 : Opening remarks delivered by the Executive Director of UNEP
POPs Treaty negotiations: The Toxic 12 and Beyond - Video News Release (9.6Mb)
POPs INC5 : Advance Press Release En, Fr, Ch(in PDF) - 9 November 2000
POPs DIPCON Press Room
DIPCON Press Coverage by ENB
Stockholm Convention on POPs Brochure English, French

• Governments Give Green Light to Phase Out of World's Most Hazardous Chemicals - 9 May 2001
• Governments finalize Persistent Organic Pollutants treaty - 10 December 2000
• UNEP Chemicals Undertakes US$5 Million Project Funded by Global Environment Facility To Assess Persistent Toxic Substances Regionally - 22 August 2000
• Environment, Health, Agriculture Experts meet in St. Petersburg to Discuss Alternatives to POPs Pesticides - 10 July 2000
• Progress made in negotiating global treaty on persistent organic pollutants; 121 countries participate - 27 March 2000
• Fourth Round of Talks Begin on Global, Legally Binding Treaty on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 20 March 2000
• Southern African countries to participate in UNEP workshop on persistent organic pollutants - February 2000
• Experts to recommend sustainable strategies for termite control that rely less on POPs - 1 February 2000
• UNEP issues streamlined Inventory of Sources of Information on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 26 January 2000
• International activities on chemicals surveyed in
  UNEP report issued to boost efficiency -  December 1999
• UNEP issues streamlined inventory of sources of information
  on persistent organic pollutants - 30 November 1999
• UNEP issues guidelines to assist countries in identifying sources of PCBs - 1 October 1999
• Elimination of 10 Intentionally Produced Persistent Organic Pollutants Favoured by Treaty Negotiators;Health need for DDT exemption seen - 13 September 1999
• UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer advocates full protection of public health while phasing out DDT - 1 September 1999
• UNEP Co-sponsors Meetings in Moscow Area, St. Petersburg in July - 1 July 1999
• Experts Agree To Criteria, Procedure for Adding
  Persistent Organic Pollutants to Global POPs Treaty - 18 June 1999
• UNEP Executive Director Urges Global Action on Dioxin, and Other POPS - 11 June 1999
• UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer Supports EU Action
  on Dioxin-Contaminated Food, Cites Need for Global Measures - 4 June 1999
• UNEP Issues First Global Inventory of PCB Disposal Capacity - 25 March 1999
• Asian, Pacific Countries Participate in UNEP Workshop on Managing Persistent Organic Pollutants - 22 March 1999
• Progress made on POPs treaty during second round of talks - 29 January1999
• Negotiations underway on global treaty to combat Persistent Organic Pollutants - 25 January1999
• Talks reopen on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) treaty - 25 January1999
• Regional workshops highlight need for effective action against hazardous chemicals - 9 July 1998
• POPs treaty talks reveal broad consensus on need for action - 3 July 1998
• Hazardous chemicals a top priority for global environment - April 1998

Press Clippings

• How Green Should Their Valley Be? - 27 July 2001
• Council and NIEHS Agree to $4 Million Research Effort to Improve Testing Chemicals for Potential Human Developmental and Reproductive Effects - 26 July 2001 
• DDT Use in U.S. Linked to Premature Births in the 1960's - 12 July 2001 
• Scientists Say DDT Increases Risk of Early Birth  - 12 July 2001
• Pesticide Poisoning Pose Concern to Third World - 11 June 2001 
• World Bank And UNEP Sign Agreement On POPs - 18 May 2001
• Press Statement - Stockholm POPs Convention - 23 May 2001 
• WWF urges rapid ratification of the Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) - 21 May 2001 
• DDT, PCBs Not Linked to Higher Rates of Breast Cancer, an Analysis of Five Northeast Studies Concludes - 15 May 2001 
• Convention On POPs Ready for Signing - 14 May 2001 
• Key Accord On Curbing Organic Pollutants Set for Signature in Late May - 9 May 2001 
• New Policy, Old Patterns: A Survey of IPM in World Bank Projects - April 2001 
• IPM That Works: The UN FAO IPM Programme and the Global IPM Facility - April 2001
• TCDD - Dioxin -- is Listed as "Known Human Carcinogen" in Federal Government's Ninth Report On Carcinogens - 19 January 2001
• Governments Finalise Organic Pollutants Treaty - 11 December 2000 
• DDT Use in Malaria Prevention and Control - 28 November 2000 
• UNEP Urges Agreement On Global Treaty On Organic Pollutants - 9 November 2000
• Scientists test sex-change bears, Friday  - 1 September 2000
• Zambia Struggles to Control Toxic PCBs - 1 September 2000
• EPA Releases Report on First Year’s Accomplishments of The Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Pollutants Initiative - 31 August 2000
• POPs dirty dozen list could expand - 22 August 2000
• Chemicals and the developing brain  - 14 June 2000
• E.P.A. Report declares Dioxin a cancer-causing agent  - 13 June 2000
• E.P.A. Sharply Curtails the Use of a Common Insecticide  - 9 June 2000
• Manufacturer to pull common pesticide, Dursban, off market  - 9 June 2000
• U.S. Rejects Pesticide Tests on Humans  - 7 June 2000
• In War Over PCB’s in Hudson, the E.P.A. Nears Its Rubicon - 05 June 2000
• U.S. Holds Off on Euro Food Imports - June 1999
• Balancing the Risks of DDT and Malaria in the Global POPs Treaty - 2 June 2000 
• EPA increases risk estimate of a pesticide;Agency decision effectively bans Dursban from stores  - 1 June 2000
• Time Limited Exemptions and Financial Support are Critical to Sustainable Reductions in the Use of DDT - 17 May 2000 
• Organochlorine exposure and breast cancer survival  - May 2000
• Paternal concentrations of dioxin and sex ratio of offspring  - 27 May 2000
• Incinerator pollution can have devastating effect on birth rate  - 26 May 2000
• EPA links Dioxins to cancer - 17 May 2000
• Breast-feeding mothers may pass toxins to babies - 30 April 2000
• Lake PCB level rising - 28 April 2000
• Economic Costs of Malaria are Many Times Higher than Previously Estimated - 25 April 2000
• Kids’ pesticide levels unsafe - 25 April 2000
• Hazards of Particles, PCBs Focus of Philadelphia Meeting - 21 April 2000
• U.S. military wastes worries Japan - April 2000
• Brain at risk from the environment - April 2000
• Disposal of toxic PCB waste not just a military base issue - 20 April 2000
• Alpine lakes trap dirty dozen poisons - 10 April 2000
• World Bank Supports Developing Countries Prepare for the Pops Convention - 6 April 2000
• U.S. Proposes Partial Cap of DDT Site in the Pacific - 30 March 2000
• Tanzania Begins to Deal With Toxic Wastelands - 30  March 2000
• Defoliant connected to diabetes - 29 March 2000
• UN-led anti-pollution talks snagged over cash - 25 March 2000
• Chemical fallout hurts Inuit babies - 22 March 2000
• World food supplies contaminated with toxic chemicals - 19 March 2000
• Poison saves hunted whales - 9 January 2000
• An useful op-ed on frog declines and deformities - January 2000
• Household trash burned in one backyard barrel... - 4 January 2000
• Environment India - Vanishing vultures bode illl for Indians - 3 January 2000