2016
Ten years after entry into force of the Stockholm Convention: What do air monitoring data tell about its effectiveness?
WOHRNSCHIMMEL, Henry, Martin SCHERINGER, Christian BOGDAL, Hayley HUNG, Amina SALAMOVA et. al.Základní údaje
Originální název
Ten years after entry into force of the Stockholm Convention: What do air monitoring data tell about its effectiveness?
Autoři
WOHRNSCHIMMEL, Henry (756 Švýcarsko), Martin SCHERINGER (756 Švýcarsko, garant, domácí), Christian BOGDAL (756 Švýcarsko), Hayley HUNG (124 Kanada), Amina SALAMOVA (840 Spojené státy), Marta VENIER (380 Itálie), Athanasios KATSOYIANNIS (578 Norsko), Ronald A. HITES (840 Spojené státy), Konrad HUNGERBUHLER (756 Švýcarsko) a Heidelore FIEDLER (756 Švýcarsko)
Vydání
Environmental Pollution, OXFORD, OXON, ENGLAND, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2016, 0269-7491
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
30304 Public and environmental health
Stát vydavatele
Velká Británie a Severní Irsko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 5.099
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14310/16:00093541
Organizační jednotka
Přírodovědecká fakulta
UT WoS
000383825100019
Klíčová slova anglicky
Stockholm Convention; Effectiveness evaluation; Air monitoring; Time series analysis
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 14. 4. 2017 11:50, Ing. Andrea Mikešková
Anotace
V originále
More than a decade ago, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), one of the multilateral environmental agreements administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), entered into force. The objective of this Convention is to protect human health and the environment by controlling the releases of POPs. According to its Article 16, the effectiveness of the Stockholm Convention shall be evaluated using comparable monitoring data on the presence of POPs as well as their regional and global environmental transport. Here, we present a time series analysis on atmospheric POP concentrations from 15 monitoring stations in North America and Europe that provide long-term data and have started operations between 1990 and 2003. We systematically searched for temporal trends and significant structural changes in temporal trends that might result from the provisions of the Stockholm Convention. We find that such structural changes do occur, but they are related mostly to effects of national regulations enforced prior to the implementation of the Stockholm Convention, rather than to the enforcement of the provisions laid out in the Convention. One example is that concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, many of which started to decrease rapidly during the 1990s. Also effects of chemical transport and fate, for instance the re-volatilization of POPs from secondary sources, are thought to be a cause of some of the observed structural changes. We conclude that a decade of air monitoring data has not been sufficient for detecting general and statistically significant effects of the Stockholm Convention. Based on these lessons, we present recommendations for the future operation of existing monitoring programs and advocate for a stricter enforcement of the provisions of the Stockholm Convention, in the current absence of proof for its effectiveness.