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Final meeting of the Steering Committee for the project on “POPs reporting, monitoring and information dissemination using PRTRs” A GEF medium-sized project was launched in 2009 with the objective of evidencing the value of Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs) as a tool to assist countries on reporting and monitoring Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and complying with the Stockholm Convention. This project supported the design of PRTRs in Cambodia, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Peru and Ukraine and further implementation of the PRTR in Chile. It also included a regional component on assessing the feasibility of PRTR implementation in the Central American region. A Steering Committee was created to monitor the implementation of the project and has met three times during the timeframe of the project. The final meeting of the committee was held on 29 to 30 August 2012, Geneva, Switzerland. This meeting was held back-to-back with an awareness-raising meeting on PRTRs for NGOs and a working session with the partner countries of the project. Click here to see the meeting documents. |
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