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INOPOL

Oslo, Oslo, Norway • 1 Employees
Environmental Services

The India-Norway cooperation project on capacity building for reducing plastic and chemical pollution in India (INOPOL) aims to address the highly interlinked challenges of marine litter, microplastics and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in India. INOPOL investigates land sources, river fluxes and ocean input of plastic and POPs pollution and develops knowledge-based reduction measures to reduce the releases and impacts of plastic pollution and POPs.INOPOL focus on the maritime and industrial state of Gujarat, with catchment areas in the river Tapi (Tapti) in Surat and Daman Ganga in Vapi. These locations are host to a range of petrochemical industries, refineries, thermal power plants, cement and rayon factories, and are significant transport routes for land-based plastic and chemical waste to marine environments.The project aims support India's ambitious targets to reduce plastic releases and to implement the Stockholm Convention on POPs by (1) providing science-based knowledge and (2) strengthening the local and regional capacity to prevent and mitigate the environmental threat posed by plastic and chemical pollution.The INOPOL project (2019-2022) is funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi and the Norwegian Development Assistance Program Against Marine Litter and Microplastics. INOPOL builds on a well-established and successful partnership between the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Mu Gamma Consultants Pvt. Ltd. (MGC), The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology (CIPET), Toxics Link (TL), and SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRM).