Convenor
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (SKLMP), City University of Hong Kong
Overview
Currently, more than 100,000 chemical substances are used in our daily lives and industries. Many of these chemicals eventually end up in estuaries and oceans through various pathways such as rivers, surface runoff, and partially treated wastewater from treatment plants, ultimately causing potential hazards to marine organisms. Unfortunately, there is a lack of information regarding the occurrence and environmental risks of various contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in global estuaries, particularly in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania coastal areas.
To address this issue, the Global Estuaries Monitoring (GEM) Programme has been launched under the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Its visions are to develop a global monitoring network, reveal the pollution status, and co-create solutions with the global partners for cleaner and safer estuaries.
Expected outcomes and outputs
The GEM Workshop will serve as an affiliated activity of the GEM Programme. This workshop will provide a platform for participants to bring together action partners, to deliver the latest research progress and achievements of the GEM Programme during 2021 – 2024, to co-create potential collaborative projects and action plans for the next phase of GEM, and to develop innovative solutions for combating estuary and marine pollution problems, with an aim to achieve UN Ocean Decade’s ultimate goal of a cleaner ocean by 2030.
Program
| TIME | AGENDA |
| Chair
· Professor Kenneth Leung (Chief Professor), Dean of School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong; Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong; Director of State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (City University of Hong Kong) |
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| 14:30 – 15:05
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Welcoming and Introduction of the GEM Programme
· Professor Kenneth Leung |
| 15:05 – 15:40
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Pollution and land-sea transport of plastic debris and microplastics in the river estuary
· Professor Xinhong Wang |
| 15:40 – 15:55 | Break |
| 15:55 – 16:25 | Progress and Prospects of the GEM Programme
· Dr. Chong Chen |
| 16:25 – 16:55 | Advanced Passive Sampler Development
· Ms. Demilade T. Adedipe |
| 16:55 – 17:30 | Free Discussion and Closing Remarks
· Professor Kenneth Leung · Professor Xinhong Wang |
