India continues to lag behind by operating
under 2004 UN Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) without accepting the subsequent amendments. Serious public health concerns create a compelling logic for India to ratify all the New POPs in the new year.
India is one of those countries which not accepted any New
POPs but operating is under 2004 treaty. The other such countries are: Australia,
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Vanuatu and Venezuela. Notably,
Israel, Italy, USA, Malaysia, Malta, Brunei Darussalam and Haiti are non-Parties to the Convention. The Eight
Conference of Parties (COP8) of Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants will take up the listing of three more substances: DecaBDE,
Short-chain chlorinated paraffins, and HCBD in May 2017.
At present the treaty’s POPs Review Committee is
evaluating two more substances for addition to the Convention: dicofol and
PFOA. The Convention started with a list of 12 POPs (Dirty Dozen) in 2004. In
due course 14 more POPs have been added to the Convention’s list of POPs. The
14 New POPs are:
1.
Chlordecone
2.
Hexabromobiphenyl
3.
Pentachlorobenzene
4.
Lindane
5.
Alpha
hexachlorocyclohexane
6.
Beta
hexachlorocyclohexane
7.
Tetrabromodiphenyl
ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether
(commercial PentaBDE)
8.
Hexabromodiphenyl
ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether
(commercial OctaBDE)
9.
Perfluorooctane
sulfonate (PFOS), its salts, and PFOSF
1. Endosulfan
1. Hexabromocyclododecane
(HBCD)
1. Hexachlorobutadiene
(HCBD)
1. Pentachlorophenol
(PCP)
1. Polychlorinated
naphthalenes (PCNs)
The last three-Hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD), Pentachlorophenol
(PCP) and Polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) were added to the treaty at COP7
in 2015.
When a substance is added to the Stockholm Convention,
the ban applies to most countries unless they write the Secretariat saying that
they cannot accept it. However, a small group of countries has an arrangement
which automatically rejects a new listing unless they write the Secretariat to
accept it. This is supposed to give countries a chance to have a little time to
facilitate elimination. However, in practice some countries use this as an
excuse not to do anything.
The countries with this special arrangement referred to
as “opt-in” include India. The other such countries are: Argentina, Australia,
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Canada, China, Estonia, Guatemala, Mauritius,
Micronesia, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation,
Slovenia, Vanuatu, and Venezuela. The Convention’s secretariat is yet to provide news about
the three remaining New POPs.
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