× Information on this section of ECOLEX comes from the InforMEA Portal which compiled information from MEA Secretariats with the support of the European Union. The accuracy of the information displayed is the responsibility of the originating data source. In case of discrepancy the information as displayed on the respective MEA website prevails. Financial mechanism Document type Decision Reference number SC-8/16 Date Apr 24, 2017 SourceUNEP, InforMEA Status Active Subject Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Financing Treaty Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Sep 21, 2001) Meeting Meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (BC COP-13, RC COP-8, SC COP-8) Website www.informea.org Full text UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.English.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.English.docx UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.French.docx UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.French.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.Russian.docx UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.Russian.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.Spanish.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.Spanish.docx UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.Chinese.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.Chinese.docx UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.Arabic.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.8-SC-8-16.Arabic.docx Abstract The Conference of the Parties Recalling Articles 13 and 14 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, Recognizing the urgent need for financial resources for developing countries for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention and the considerable gap between that need and the financial resources provided by the principal entity entrusted with the operations of the financial mechanism of the Convention under the current financial arrangements,