Berlin statement on legacy and emerging contaminants in polar regions

Ralf Ebinghaus; Elena Barbaro; Susan Bengtson Nash; Cristina de Avila; Cynthia A. de Wit; Valeria Dulio; Janine Felden; Antonio Franco; Juergen Gandrass; Marco Grotti; Heike Herata; Kevin A. Hughes; Morten Jartun; Hanna Joerss; Roland Kallenborn; Jan Koschorreck; Anette Küster; Rainer Lohmann; Zhanyun Wang; Matthew MacLeod; Rebecca Pugh; Caren Rauert; Jaroslav Slobodnik; Roxana Sühring; Katrin Vorkamp; Zhiyong Xie

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138530

Berlin statement on legacy and emerging contaminants in polar regions

Ralf Ebinghaus^*, Elena Barbaro, Susan Bengtson Nash, Cristina de Avila, Cynthia A. de Wit, Valeria Dulio, Janine Felden, Antonio Franco, Juergen Gandrass, Marco Grotti, Heike Herata, Kevin A. Hughes, Morten Jartun, Hanna Joerss, Roland Kallenborn, Jan Koschorreck, Anette Küster, Rainer Lohmann, Zhanyun Wang, Matthew MacLeodRebecca Pugh, Caren Rauert, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Roxana Sühring, Katrin Vorkamp, Zhiyong Xie

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Polar regions should be given greater consideration with respect to the monitoring, risk assessment, and management of potentially harmful chemicals, consistent with requirements of the precautionary principle. Protecting the vulnerable polar environments requires (i) raising political and public awareness and (ii) restricting and preventing global emissions of harmful chemicals at their sources. The Berlin Statement is the outcome of an international workshop with representatives of the European Commission, the Arctic Council, the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), environmental specimen banks, and data centers, as well as scientists from various international research institutions. The statement addresses urgent chemical pollution issues in the polar regions and provides recommendations for improving screening, monitoring, risk assessment, research cooperation, and open data sharing to provide environmental policy makers and chemicals management decision-makers with relevant and reliable contaminant data to better protect the polar environments. The consensus reached at the workshop can be summarized in just two words: “Act now!” Specifically, “Act now!” to reduce the presence and impact of anthropogenic chemical pollution in polar regions by. •Establishing participatory co-development frameworks in a permanent multi-disciplinary platform for Arctic-Antarctic collaborations and establishing exchanges between the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) of the Arctic Council and the Antarctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AnMAP) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) to increase the visibility and exchange of contaminant data and to support the development of harmonized monitoring programs. •Integrating environmental specimen banking, innovative screening approaches and archiving systems, to provide opportunities for improved assessment of contaminants to protect polar regions.

Original language	English
Article number	138530
Journal	Chemosphere
Volume	327
ISSN	0045-6535
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138530
Publication status	Published - Jun 2023

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Antarctica
Arctic
Chemicals of emerging concern (CECs)
Contamination
Legacy pollutants
Polar regions

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Ebinghaus, R., Barbaro, E., Bengtson Nash, S., de Avila, C., de Wit, C. A., Dulio, V., Felden, J., Franco, A., Gandrass, J., Grotti, M., Herata, H., Hughes, K. A., Jartun, M., Joerss, H., Kallenborn, R., Koschorreck, J., Küster, A., Lohmann, R., Wang, Z., ... Xie, Z. (2023). Berlin statement on legacy and emerging contaminants in polar regions. Chemosphere, 327, Article 138530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138530

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