China News Service, Beijing, December 18th. The reporter learned on the 18th that by the end of this year, China will achieve the full phase-out of 20 types of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) including hexabromocyclododecane.
The 20th anniversary of China’s signing of the "Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants" and the 2021 Technical Coordination Meeting for the Implementation of the Convention was held in Beijing a few days ago.
Qiu Qiwen, Vice Minister of China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment, pointed out that the Chinese government has always attached great importance to ecological protection.
Since the signing of the "Convention", in terms of establishing a national implementation mechanism, building an environmental risk prevention and control system, strengthening green substitution, and participating in global governance, it has contributed Chinese solutions, Chinese wisdom and Chinese power to the implementation of the Convention.
By the end of this year, China will achieve its performance goal of completely eliminating hexabromocyclododecane and other 20 types of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Over the past 20 years, the compliance action has reduced the production and environmental emissions of hundreds of thousands of tons of POPs each year. The compliance target for the offline disposal of power equipment containing PCBs has been completed ahead of schedule. The intensity of dioxin emissions in major industries across the country has dropped significantly, and environmental and biological samples The content of organic chlorine POPs has shown a downward trend as a whole, making an important contribution to the improvement of global environmental quality.
The “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening the Battle of Pollution Prevention and Control” issued recently clarified that investigations, monitoring and environmental risk assessment will be carried out for new pollutants such as persistent organic pollutants, and a list of key new pollutants under control will be issued dynamically, and a comprehensive list of new pollutants will be released. Process environmental risk control measures.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China will further strengthen the top-level design for compliance, as always, strictly fulfill its commitments, participate in global environmental governance, and make new contributions to the elimination and reduction of POPs, the protection of human health and the safety of the ecological environment.
Mr. Rolf Payer, Executive Secretary of the Secretariats of the Stockholm Convention, Rotterdam Convention and Basel Convention, praised China’s important contribution to the implementation of the Convention through a video, and emphasized that China’s participation in the key scientific process of implementation of the Convention has played a crucial role. Important role.
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