The competence by Sea Marconi on the topic of PCBs at international level received a prestigious confirmation: a few days ago, Vander Tumiatti received an invitation by Donald Cooper, Executive Secretary of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
In particular, the communication invites Tumiatti as international expert on the matter, to give a dissertation at the Workshop organised by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention in cooperation with the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Regional Office for Africa to be held in Nairobi (Kenya) from 15th through 19th June.
The event has the scope to divulge among the Anglophone Countries of Africa the Guidelines for the Best Available Techniques (BAT) and Best Environmental Practices (BAP) relative to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and PCBs.
We remind that:
- The Stockholm Convention (signed in 2001, in effect since 2004 with 150 participating Countries) has the objective to eliminate and reduce the use of some noxious substances for human health and for the environment, designated as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). POPs are chemical compounds with toxic properties that can be propagated in the air, water and ground that, due to their scarce degradability, reside in the environment for a long time. The Agreement indicates 12 main pollutants and three entire classes of compounds: polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo dioxins (PCDDs or more commonly called dioxins) and polychlorinated dibenzo furans (PCDFs).
- The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was implemented in 1972 as an institutional organism to which the general scope of protecting the environment and the sustainable use of natural resources has been assigned, within the frame of the complex organisation system of the United Nations (Wikipedia).
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