Stakeholders Perspective ofChemicals (POPs) Management in India
| Title | Stakeholders Perspective ofChemicals (POPs) Management in India |
| Publication Type | Research Reports |
| Year of Publication | 2022 |
| Keywords | INOPOL, NIVA, MoEFCC, Norwegian Embassy, POPs, chlordecone, Octa-BDE, Penta-BDE, pentachlorobenzene, hexachlorobutadine, organic pollutants, industrial waste, SPCB, CPCB, |
| Abstract | India is a signatory to Stockholm convention on POPs and ratified twelve POPs in 2006 and developed an action plan to eliminate the twelve POPs. Moreover, recently the Ministry of Environment - Forest and Climate Change of India (the MoEF&CC) has ratified additional 7 POPs with an agenda to eliminate these POPs. The country has established a Regulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants Rules, which entered into force on March 8, 2019. The regulation prohibits the manufacture, trade, use, import and export of the following seven POPs: ·Chlordecone; ·Hexabromobiphenyl; ·Hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether (commercial octa-BDE); ·Tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether (commercial penta-BDE); ·Pentachlorobenzene; ·Hexabromocyclododecane; and ·Hexachlorobutadine |
| Citation key | 1953 |
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