UNU-ISP International Symposium
Environmental Monitoring and Governance in the Asian Coastal Hydrosphere - Past 10 Years and Future of Stockholm Convention on POPs
Date: 25 October 2011
Time: 9:30-17:10
Location: U Thant Hall, UNU Headquarters Map »
Organized by: UNU-ISP
Admission fee: Free
Language: Simultaneous interpretation in English and Japanese will be provided.
Contact:
symposium25oct@unu.edu
Overview
Environmental matrices contain a great variety of pollutants including those released from industrial & agricultural activity and urban waste. These pollutants include heavy metals, pesticides, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) etc. POPs can remain for a very long time and enter the food chain, posing a real risk to human and ecological health. The United Nations University (UNU), along with the support of Shimadzu Corporation, has been actively assisting Asian developing countries to monitor and manage POPs by providing scientific training and technology since 1996.
In the past 15 years, the UNU Project, Environmental Monitoring and Governance in the Asian Coastal Hydrosphere, has helped the partner countries to enhance their overall capacity in POPs research. International symposiums have been held annually to disseminate the project’s achievements as well as the latest international developments in POPs.
This year is the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Stockholm Convention on POPs. This year’s international symposium will be held at the UNU Headquarters in Tokyo on 25 Oct, 2011. It will focus on what has been achieved in the past 10 years and what should be done in the future to further strengthen the research and technological capacity of developing countries and to better implement multilateral environmental agreements like the Stockholm Convention. This conference will also celebrate the 15th anniversary of partnership between the UNU, the Shimadzu Corporation, and the national partner institutions across Asia.
We are cordially inviting you to attend this symposium.
Registration
To register for this event, please click on the link below and complete the registration form. Kindly note that registration will be closed once the maximum number of participants is reached.
Programme
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration |
| Opening | |
| 9:30-9:40 | Welcome and opening remarks
Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Vice Rector of UNU, Director, UNU Institute for Sustainability and Peace |
| 9:40-10:10 | Overview of the UNU Project and Introduction
to the Symposium Masatoshi Morita, Visiting Professor of UNU |
| Achievements and Future Perspectives of Stockholm Convention | |
| 10:10-10:40 | The Stockholm Convention at 10: Protecting Human Health and the Environment from Persistent Organic Pollutants
Kei Ohno, Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, United Nations Environment Programme |
| 10:40-11:10 | POPs Management Policy in Japan
Teruo Sato, Environmental Health Department, Ministry of the Environment |
| 11:10-11:25 | Break |
| 11:25-11:55 | Role of Research Organizations in Chemical Material Management - Revision of GMP and POPs Monitoring Activities at NIES, Japan
Yasuyuki Shibata, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan |
| 11:55-12:25 | Activities of Expert Committee in POPs
treaty
Prof. Masaru Kitano, Meiji University, Member of The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) of the Stockholm Convention |
| 12:25-12:35 | Q & A session |
| Ceremony to mark successful completion of 5th phase of the project | |
| 12:35-13:00 | Ceremony remarks
Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Vice Rector of UNU, Director, UNU Institute for Sustainability and Peace Akira Nakamoto, President and Chief Executive Officer of Shimadzu Corporation |
| 13:00-13:15 | For the Well-being of both Mankind and the
Earth – SHIMADZU
Kyoichi Komori, Marketing Department of Shimadzu Cooperation |
| 13:15-14:00 | Break |
| Activities in Asian region for Stockholm convention | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Past Activities and Future Perspectives of the Stockholm Convention Regional Center in China
Gang Yu, Dean of School of Environment, Tsinghua University |
| 14:30-15:00 | Organochlorine pesticides contamination in
Japanese arable soils and a proposal to reduce its
plant uptake
Nobuyasu Seike, National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences |
| 15:00-15:15 | POPs Monitoring in China
Liang Dong, Shuangxin Shi, Lifei Zhang, Ting Zhang, Li Zhou, Yeru Huang, National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement (CNEAC), China |
| 15:15-15:30 | Human Exposure to POPs in Vietnam:
Contamination, Accumulation Characteristics and Risk
Assessment for Infants
Pham Hung Vieta, Nguyen Hung Minha, Tu Binh Minha , Nguyen Minh Tue and Shinsuke Tanabeb, aCenter for Environmental Technology and Sustainable Developmen (CETASD), VNU University of Science, Vietnam, bCenter for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Japan |
| 15:30-15:45 | Trend of POPs Contamination in the Marine
Environments of South Korea
Won Joon Shim, Sang Hee Hong, Narayanan Kannan, Gi Myung Han, Sung Yong Ha, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute |
| 15:45-15:55 | Q & A session |
| 15:55-16:10 | Break |
| Activities of Business, International organizations | |
| 16:10-16:30 | UNIDO’s Projects on Sound Management of
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
Fukuya Iino, United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
| 16:30-16:50 | Investigation on PFOS usage of Electric and
Electronics Industry in Japan
Ryo Usami, Mitsubishi Electric Cooperation |
| 16:50-17:00 | Q & A session |
| Closing | |
| 17:00-17:10 | Closing remarks Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Vice
Rector of UNU, Director, UNU |
*Please note this programme is tentative and
subject to change.
*Simultaneous interpretation in both English and Japanese
languages will be provided.
