Workshop on
"POPs – New Developments and Challenges in the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention"
To continue to build up Hong Kong's capacity in managing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and to carry forward the HKSAR Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on POPs, the Environmental Protection Department organized a "POPs – New Developments and Challenges in the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention" Workshop on 10-11 April 2012 at the Lam Woo International Conference Centre of the Hong Kong Baptist University. The Workshop attracted about 120 people attending. Speakers came from the Ministry of Environmental Protection in China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Tsinghua University, etc., and the audience included experts from the Mainland and Hong Kong.
The Workshop provided the participants with an overview of China's progress in managing POPs in the past ten years, as well as the response actions to the inclusion of ten new POPs under the Stockholm Convention. Research and technological advances in monitoring and managing POPs, the workings of the POPs Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention, effectiveness evaluation of POPs management in the Asia Pacific region, implementation programmes in Guangdong, Shanxi, Shanghai, Shanzhen and Ningbo were some of the topics presented. The participants also made a site visit to the Eco Park in Tuen Mun on 11 April.
