If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more.
Improving Pollution Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants to Reduce the Impact on People and the Environment (ARCAL CXLII)
Project Type
Technical Cooperation Project
TC Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Project Code
RLA5069Approved Date
1 January 2016
Status
Active
Participating Countries
Argentina
Austria
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Mexico
Paraguay
Uruguay
Objectives
To improve environmental quality and reduce human exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) by establishing a correlation between the amounts of POPs found in humans and the environment that they live in.