WWF Applauds Canadian Support of POPs Treaty Canada NewsWire Give us your message. We'll give you the world.
POPs are an urgent global problem that demand urgent global solutions.
The POPs treaty was finalized in December 2000 by a consensus of 122 countries. The treaty bans or restricts an extremely dangerous class of synthetic chemicals, including DDT, dioxins and furans. Drawn to the Arctic by global air currents, POPs persist in the environment and bioaccumulate in the food chain including the fats of animals. Consequently, POPs are then stored in the body fat of Inuit and other northern aboriginal people who rely, in part, on local foods such as seal and polar bears. WWF will continue to work closely with the Canadian government to ensure the treaty is ratified in time for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2002.