This report summarizes a workshop—Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The presentations and discussions summarized here describe the types of scientific information necessary to make informed decisions to eliminate the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) banned under the Stockholm Convention, sources of information; scientifically informed strategies for eliminating POPs, elements of good scientific advice, such as transparency, peer review, and disclosure of conflicts of interest; and information dealing with POPs that decision makers need from the scientific community, including next steps to make such science available and ensure its use on a continuing basis.

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Front Matter
Introduction
References
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Appendix B: List of Workshop Participants
Appendix C: POPs Survey and Results
Appendix D: Graduate Students' Summary of Survey Responses
Appendix E: List of Publications from Workshop in Chemosphere