STATEMENT
ON INCINERATION AND THE NEED FOR CLEAN TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR POPS STOCKPILES
22
March 2000, INC4 in Bonn, Germany
This
statement was presented by developing and transitional countries NGO's to the
plenary of the disscussion group on POPs stockpiles.
Considering that the elimination of POPs as products and by products is the
ultimate goal of this Convention.
Adopting
the Precautionary Principle as the guiding criteria in the selection of treatment
technologies of POPs stockpiles.
Convinced
that sources of dioxin and furans should be eliminated if we want to prevent
the poisoning of our food supply from the accumulation in the food chain of
these persistence and bioaccumulative toxins from long distance sources.
Recognizing
the fundamental human rights that are violated by POPs, especially by dioxins
and furans, such as the right of mothers to have a healthy reproductive cycles
free from pollutants from conception to the raising of healthy children, the
rights of every mother to breastfeed their children without the fear of the
dioxin burden that is passed to the next generations, and the right of every
human being to live in a healthy environment .
We,
the NGOs from Latin America, Asia, Africa and countries with economies in transition
make an appeal to this INC4 Assembly to ensure that the POPs treaty :
- Stop the transfer
of incineration and combustion technologies and other obsolete technologies
from developed countries (such as the United States and Western Europe) to
the rest of the world, for the treatment of POPs stockpiles (PCBs and obsolete
pesticides) and other hazardous wastes.
- Establish financial
and technical mechanisms to ensure that developing countries and countries
with economies in transition will have the capabilities to:
- Establish National
inventories of POPs stockpiles in a transparent process with full access to
public information, that identify and safely isolated and contain existing
POPs stockpiles.
Have access
to environmental sound and proven treatment technologies of stockpiles of
POPs that do not produce new POPs as byproducts such as dioxins and furans.
- Stimulate the
investment in regional and bilateral cooperation projects for our countries
that increases the national and regional capacity in non-combustion alternative
technologies for the treatments of POPs stockpiles with full citizen participation.
We
do not consider the incineration of POPs stockpiles as a environmental sound
technology but as a global toxic threat technology to all communities in
the world.
AFRICA
- Cheikh H Sylla . Pesticide
Action Network Africa. Senegal.
- Anti incineration Alliance,
South Africa
- Timothy Byakola . Climate
& Development Initiatives, Uganda.
- Ahmed Geneid, Medical
Students for Social Responsibility. Egypt.
- Wahidi Labidi Greenpeace
Mediterranean. Tunisia
ASIA
- Ravi Agarwal. Toxics
Link, India.
- Jayakumar, Thanal , Conservation
Action and Information Network, India.
- Hemsing Hurrynag Development.
Indian Ocean Network
- Romeo Quijano. Pesticide
Action Network Philippines
- Von Hernandez. Greenpeace
Southeast Asia. Clean Air Coalition, EcoWaste. Philippines.
LATIN
AMERICA:
- Maria Elena Rozas. Pesticide
Action Network Latin America (RAPAL)
- Fernando Bejarano González,.
Pesticide Action Network Mexico, (RAPAM)
- Claudio Torres Nachon..
Center for Environmental Law and Economic Integration for the South. (DASSUR)
, México.
- Lilian Corra, International
Society of Doctors for the Environment. Argentina.
- Marijane Lisboa. Greenpeace
Brazil
ECONOMIES
IN TRANSITION
- Sasha Gabizon, WECF Women's
in Europe for a Common Future.
- Olga Speraskaya, Eco
Accor, Russia.
- Olga Tsyguhlova, MAMA
86, Ukraine.
- Elena Manvelian, Armenia
Women for Health and Healthy Environment.
- Mila Grozdeva, Black
Sea Law Community, Bulgaria Bulgas.
Other South
International Groups.
- Tom Goldsmith of the
Indigenous Environmental Network.
- Susan Siewof the World
Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. (WABA). Malaysia
Northern NGOs that endorse
also this statement:
- Yuko Nakashita. Secretary
General. People‘ Association on counter measures of dioxin and endocrine disrupters.
(PACDED) Japan.
- Kaori Iakise, Citizens
Table on Endocrine Disrupters of Japan.
- Koa Tasaka, Pesticide
Action Network, Japan.
- Pamela K. Miller. Alaska
Community Action of Toxics.
- Daryll Luscombe. Greenpeace
International.
- Mariann Lloyd Smith.
National Toxics Network. Australia.
- Monica Moore. Pesticide
Action North America Regional Center.
- Carina Weber. Pesticide
Action Network, Germany.
- Claudia Saladin. Center
for Environmental Law (CIEL). USA
- Jack Weinberg. Environmental
Health Fund. USA
- Carl Smith. Foundation
for advancements in Science and Education (FASE). USA
- Timothy H. Brown. Great
Lakes United. USA
- Sharon Newsome. Physicians
for Social Responsibility. USA
- Pamela Ransom. Womens
Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). USA
- Estefania Blount. C.S.
Comisiones Obreras. Spain.
- Pierre Emmanuel. CNIID
(National Center of Independent Information on Wastes) France
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