Public participation in promotion and implementation of Stockholm Convention on POPs (persistent organic pollutants) and other significant processes in chemical safety
2008
Astanina, L. | Dylevskaya, S.
Kazakhstan has a considerable volume of unwanted and obsolete pesticides and poor storage and container conditions, possible unauthorized access and uncontrolled use of containers for household conditions, big risks for human health and the environment, especially in natural disasters and human-caused incidents (floods, fires, catastrophes etc) that raise the problem of inclusion of obsolete pesticides in a list of paramount environmental and social problems that calls for immediate and effective solution. Today Central Asian countries sustain similar problems with chemical pollution and chemicals' detrimental impact on human health and the environment. The republics have accumulated obsolete and valueless pesticides (chemicals used to protect plants from pests and to destroy weed); there is no reliable system for monitoring and maintaining the environmental control over use and import of harmful toxicants or repositories that would meet qualification requirements for burying harmful chemicals. As the Stockholm Convention envisages public participation in matters related to toxic substances, Kazahstan's environmental NGOs have gained certain expeience in promoting Stockholm Convention through carrying out information events and campaigns and performing various projects and activities. This article outlines the activity of Environmental Analytical Agency"Greenwomen" and other NGOs related to public participation, and principles of interaction between representative and executive branches.
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