The meeting will focus on organizing and guiding intersessional work arising from COP-12 decisions related to the update of BAT/BEP guidelines and guidance, and on agreeing the next steps to develop these documents for submission to COP-13.

After six years as chair of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC), Peter Dawson looks back on his journey filled of global collaboration.

UN scientific committee agrees that polybrominated dioxins and furans and mixed polybrominated and polychlorinated dioxins and furans meet all criteria for persistent organic pollutants but defers its decision on moving to the next stage for global action under the Stockholm Convention.

View the decisions adopted at the COP-12.