Intervention on POPs

Toxics Link has been intervened on the issues of POPs since past twelve years and has been engaged at different level from doing research, preparing the reports, creating awareness, building capacity of the stakeholders and organizing workshops. The interventions of Toxics Link on POPs issues has not been limited to India but also engaged with the stakeholders of South Asian countries.

Broad Interventions

• Research and baseline creation on POPs
• Awareness generation and capacity building of the stakeholders on the issues
• Engage with policy people, industry and other stakeholders including civil society groups to work out mechanism to eliminate / manage POPs and promotion of safer alternatives for toxic chemicals
• Creation and dissemination of the information materials among the stakeholders
• Organizing stakeholder’s workshop.

Current Engagements

The Government of India has submitted the National Implementation Plan (NIP) in April 2011. In the NIP time bound plan has been drawn to eliminate and reduce the POPs in India. So Toxics link has stepped into the various interventions in align with NIP to address the issues of POPs within the time frame.

• Creating Information Materials-

Toxics Link has developed FAQs on Stockholm Convention, DDT and Dioxins/Furans to reach out the common masses and revenant stakeholders in the country.

• National Level Workshop on POPs-

In February 2012, Toxics Link organized the national level stakeholder’s workshop on Stockholm convention. The workshop was aimed to develop a strategy on National Implementation Plan in India. Apart from the stakeholders from the country, delegates from South Asian countries also attended the meet.

• Regional Level Awareness Meet on the Unintentional POPs “ Dioxins and Furans”

Dioxins and furans are the chemicals designated as POPs and release unintentionally during industrial and other anthropogenic sources. In the national implementation plan the sources of U-POPs in India has been identified. In this context Toxics Link is organizing series of awareness generation workshops across different regions of the country. Toxics Link has already conducted such workshop in Guwahati and is planning to do similar meetings at Nagpur and Bangalore.