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The United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) is supporting global negotiations to reach a legally binding
international instrument to deal with dioxins and furans as well as 10 other specified
persistent organic pollutants, or POPs.
The negotiations by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee come in response to the
mandate from the UNEP Governing Council to reach a global agreement on the initial list of
12 POPs by the year 2000.
In advance of the treaty, UNEP has initiated and contributed to other activities to
identify dioxins and furans and to take measures against them to protect public
health and the environment.
In June 1999, UNEP Chemicals released a report summarising the available information on
releases of dioxins and furans to the environment. The report covers 15 national
inventories, mostly from Western |
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