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Title: POPs in Asia: Its Status and Future
Date: 7 November

Venue: NISMED Auditorium, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

 

UNU-ESD website                                           

 

 

8:00 am         Registration

 

9:00 am         Welcome Address from the Chancellor of  the University of the Philippines

 

9:10 am         Welcome Address from the government of the Philippines

Secretary Angelo Reyes,  Dept of Environment and Natural Resources

 

9:20 am         Opening address: Dr. Masatoshi Morita (UNU Programme Advisor)

                  Presentation Slides (90KB in PDF)

 

9:30 am         Keynote Speech - Dr. Shinsuke Tanabe

Contamination of Legacy and New POPs in the Asia Pacific Region

                  Presentation Slides (13MB in PDF)

 

10:30 am       Coffee Break

 

10:45 am       Ms. Angie Bravante

The National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention

Environmental Management Bureau, DENR

                  Presentation Slides (661KB in PDF)

 

11:15 am       POPs pesticides in freshwater shrimps in Pampanga and Laguna Rivers,

Dr. Evangeline C. Santiago (Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines, Philippines)

                  Presentation Slides (2MB in PDF)

 

11:45 am       Studies on residues of organochlorine pesticides in shrimps collected from Tai Lake and Dongding Lake, China,

Dr. Shuangxin Shi (Sino-Japan Friendship Center for Environment Protection, China)

                  Presentation Slides (6MB in PDF)

 

12:15 pm       Lunch Break

 

1:30 pm         Biomonitoring of POPs and EDCs and their impacts on human health,

Dr. Mustafa Ali Mohd (University of Malaya, Malaysia)

                  Presentation Slides (5MB in PDF)

 

2:00 pm         Environmentally-benign sample preparation approaches,

Dr. Hian- Kee Lee (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

                  Presentation Slides (523KB in PDF)

 

2:30 pm         Progress in global monitoring plan of the Stockholm Convention,

Dr. Yasuyuki Shibata (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)

                   Presentation Slides (543KB in PDF)

 

3:15pm          Seasonal trends of atmospheric chlorinated pesticides in the central Himalaya

Dr  Mark Loewen (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada)

                   Presentation Slides (20MB in PDF)

 

4:00pm          Coffee Break

 

4:15pm          Panel Discussion (Dr. Tanabe, Dr. Iino, Dr. Shibata. Dr. Loewen, Ms. Bravante)

 

5:00pm          Symposium Summary (Dr. Morita)

 

5:15pm   Closing  Session

 Dr. Iino ( UNU Academic Program Officer, Environment and Sustainability)

and Dr. Ernelea P. Cao (UP NSRI Director)

 

Title: UNU Lectures
Date: 8 November

Venue: NISMED Auditorium, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

 

9:00- 9:10am  Opening         Dr. Iino

 

9:10-9:40am   Water quality as a stressor: accounting for pesticide pollution in vulnerbaility assessments   

Dr. Fabrice Renaud (UNU-EHS Bonn, Germany)

                  Presentation Slides (1MB in PDF)

 

9:40-10:10am Environmental risk assessment for sound chemical management

Dr. Fukuya Iino (UNU, Tokyo)

                  Presentation Slides (803KB in PDF)

 

10:10-10:40am         Analysis of Dioxins    Dr. Masatoshi Morita (UNU programme advisor)

                  Presentation Slides (600KB in PDF)

 

 


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