Pesticide Action Network Updates Service (PANUPS) NOTE: U.S.
activists see Action Alert on U.S. POPs legislation at
http://www.panna.org. To learn about and participate in
activities in other countries, see listing of events and contact
information at http://www.ipen.org. A year later, more than 140
countries have signed the Convention, but only eight have
completed the process of ratification. To bring the treaty into
force and move towards POPs elimination internationally, 50
countries must ratify the Convention. To mark the anniversary of
the treaty's signature, NGO's around the world are participating
in a "Day of Action," calling on their governments to move
quickly to ratify the historic treaty. What's new and different
about the Stockholm Convention is that it calls for the global
elimination--not management--of an entire class of chemicals.
The treaty targets an initial 12 chemicals for phase out and
lays out a process for adding new chemicals that meet agreed
criteria for persistence, bioaccumulation