The project aims to improve the China’s capacity for managing site contamination, and demonstrate environmentally sound identification and cleanup of sites contaminated with POPs and other hazardous chemicals. The project will support three components to achieve the above mentioned objective:
- Capacity Development for Prevention and Control of Site Contamination, this will include development of technical guidelines and policy recommendations and financing options for prevention and control of site contamination at the national and local levels, training for prevention and control of site contamination, establishment of national database for POPs contaminated sites, feasibility study for a knowledge and remediation centre in Chongqing, demonstration of establishing regional soil and groundwater contamination prevention and early-warning system at the industrial park;
- Cleanup Demonstrations of Sites Contaminated with POPs and Other Hazardous Chemicals; and
- Project Management. Paul Bardos is acting as the project’s international expert on green and sustainable remediation.
PB is working independently for the FECO office of the Cina Ministry of Environment and Ecology under an Agency agreement with r3.