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China, Japan partner up to rid pollutants
By Qin Jize (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-07-09 00:23

Experts from China and Japan met yesterday in Beijing to promote international efforts to eliminate a dozen hazardous chemicals known as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

"By ratifying the Stockholm Convention, China has committed itself to eliminate the production, distribution and use of POPs," said Dr Zhang Qingfeng, who is with the Stockholm Convention Implementation Office of State Environmental Protection Administration.

The Stockholm Convention on POPs was signed by about 150 countries, including China, in May, 2001 and took effect on May 17 this year.

China's top legislature ratified the convention at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), which closed in Beijing in late June.

The convention signaled the start of an ambitious international effort to rid the world of POPs. It aims to initially control a dozen of the pollutants.

"China has already had co-operation on POPs control with Canada, Italy, the United States and other international organizations, mainly in the field of replacing POPs with increasingly safe and effective alternatives," said Zhang, who is looking forward to a new co-operative relationship with Japan.

POPs are highly toxic chemical substances that threaten human health and the environment.

For decades, they have killed and made people and animals sick by causing cancer and damaging nervous, reproductive and immune systems. They are also believed to cause birth defects.

Well-known POPs in China are DDT, used to combat malaria, Chlordane and Mirex in termite control and PCBs, used as electrical insulators in transformers, capacitors and other electrical equipment.

It is an urgent task for China to develop environmentally safer alternatives to pesticides and address PCB problems, yet the elimination of POPs requires great input.

The lack of professionals and the funds to develop techniques, and insufficient public education are bottle necks for substituting, treating and reducing POPs, said Zhang.

Zhang called for the improvement of policy and legal systems, and basic scientific study, as well as the establishment of a national co-operative system.



 
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