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El Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has signed an agreement with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to assist in implementing the Stockholm Convention in developing countries. This international agreement, signed by Spain, seeks to stop the spread of persistent organic pollutants, a group of compounds that include pesticides such as DDT and industrial chemicals. Its extension has significant effects on ecosystems and living beings, including cancer or interference with reproductive capacity.

Specifically, the agreement formalizes the collaboration of scientists from the Laboratory of Dioxins, a facility of the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Studies Water Barcelona (CSIC), with the Cuban scientific authorities in the implementation of that agreement.

Scientists at the laboratory, one of the most experienced teams in the world these pollutants have begun work to identify those Cuban laboratories capable of conducting analysis of persistent organic pollutants and conduct a scientific meeting for researchers working in the country. They are also evaluating what infrastructure needs to the island in this area and provide specific training to its researchers. Finally, again in Spain serve as a reference laboratory to evaluate the results to provide local scientists.

The ultimate goal is that the Cuban laboratories can provide data reliable global inventory of emissions of persistent organic pollutants, one of the tools emerged from the Stockholm Convention.