Fiji POPs project : country plan

Location

SPREP LIBRARY

Author(s)

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) (SPREP)

Publisher

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Publication Year:

2003

Publication Place

Apia, Samoa

Physical Description:

unpaged ; 29 cm

Call Number

VF 5787 [EL]

Material Type

Environmental Impact Assessment

Report

Language

English

Record ID:

17170

Legacy PEIN ID:

57077

General Notes

Kept in vertical file collection|SLIC also hold Cook Islands & Federated States of Micronesia country plan

Subject Heading(s)

Persistent Organic Pollutants - Fiji

Environment - Cook Islands

Abstract

The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) several years ago identified the mismanagement of hazardous chemicals in the Pacific Island Countries as a serious environmental concern, and hence the Persistent Organic Pollutants in Pacific Island Countries (POPs in PICs) project was developed as an AusAID funded initiative, to be earned out by SPREP. POPs are a group of twelve particularly hazardous chemicals that have been singled out by the recent Stockholm Convention for urgent action to eliminate them from the world. They include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are mainly found in transformers, and several pesticides that are very persistent and toxic to the environment.

Tag(s)

fiji