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Experts from Thailand and other Asian countries will present recent research on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and their impact on ecosystems at a UN University international symposium in Bangkok April 26-27.
The symposium, organized by UNU and Environmental Research & Training Center, Bangkok is the sixth in a series under a UNU programme focusing on environmental pollution and governance in the East Asian "coastal hydrosphere" – the region's freshwater and seawater coastal environments and the natural living resources contained in them.
Speakers from the region and invited experts from other parts of the world will discuss the role of various land-based emission sources in POPs contamination of coastal areas, highlighting the ecosystem impacts.
UNU initiated its regional pollution monitoring programme on chemicals in the environment in 1996. Since 1998, it has focused on POPs in the coastal waters of East Asia. Nine countries have been involved in this monitoring programme: China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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