This is an issue that more investors and companies are considering, as some governments and pressure groups have called for the phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050.
The treaty, which went into force in 2004, called for the phasing out of 12 POPs, including PCBs, chlordane, and dioxins.
The meeting came about one month after the popular Argentinian pontiff released an encyclical – or church teaching – on the environment that called for the phasing-out of fossil fuels and for action to combat climate change and immoral consumption, which he said was putting humanity at risk.
Earlier this year, the PCI standards body called for the phase-out of any wireless networks using WEP encryption, a digital lock that takes only a couple of minutes to break.
Tuesday's speech also called for the phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies -– a familiar request from the president's previous State of the Union addresses -- and praised growth in the solar energy sector.
Sally Yates, who replaced Holder's successor Loretta Lynch as Obama's attorney general before her firing, had explicitly called for the phasing out of those facilities.
Currently, critics of the partnership are calling for the phase-out of Japanese automotive import tariffs – 2.5 percent for cars and 25 percent for trucks – to stretch over three decades.
This plan calls for the phase-out of existing reactors around the world and a moratorium on construction of new commercial nuclear reactors.
A transition to a low-carbon future is now supported by a majority of Europe's MEPs, who last month passed a report calling for the phasing out of fossil fuels by 2050.
In Nevada, Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for senator, has had difficulty explaining positions she took in the past, like calling for the phasing out of Social Security, and she sharply cut down on public appearances soon after her victory in June, at one point running away from a television reporter.
