Question

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants. Endosulfan became a highly controversial agrichemical and has been banned under the Stockholm Convention because:

• A. It inhibits the nitrogen fixation when increase in the soil
• B. it aggravates the global warming
• C. it causes increase in the ozone depletion.
• D. it is an endocrine disruptor

Answer 1

The correct option is D

it is an endocrine disruptor

Key elements of the Convention include the requirement that developed countries provide new and additional financial resources and measures to eliminate production and use of intentionally produced POPs, eliminate unintentionally produced POPs where feasible, and manage and dispose of POPs wastes in an environmentally sound manner. Precaution is exercised throughout the Stockholm Convention, with specific references in the preamble, the objective, and the provision on identifying new POPs.

Endosulfan is an off-patent organochlorine insecticide and acaricide that is being phased out globally. Endosulfan became a highly controversial agrichemical due to its acute toxicity, potential for bioaccumulation, and role as an endocrine disruptor.