Climate change and POPS: predicting the impacts

This report highlights keys scientific findings related to the complex relationships between climate change and abatement of persistent organic pollutants (POPS), which remobilization and subsequent bioavailability are impacted by extreme weather events such as heat waves, storms, floods, sea-level rise and forest fires. It provides an overall view of POPS releases into the environment, long range transport and environmental fate, and human and environmental exposure in a changing climate, as well as potential coupled effects of climate and POPS on human health and the environment. The report also addresses the synergies between climate change mitigation policies and actions to eliminate and manage POPS, and provides recommendations based on the current state of science.