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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Citation:
D'Lugosz, J J. KEYNOTE ADDRESS. Presented at Plenary Session for Chemistry for the Protection of the Environment, Nanjing, China, September 19, 1999.
Description:
Over the past two decades an environmental conference series has emerged in Poland to become one of the premier forums on the chemical aspects of environmental protection. The forum is called Chemistry for the Protection of the Environment CPE). The first conference of this series was organized in 1976 at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. This first conference focused on physical and chemical methods for water and wastewater treatment. The conference was sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).
Since the first conference the USEPA has played some role either as a direct sponsor and/or has allowed participation by key EPA scientists and engineers. Through the years CPE has been held in Lublin and in Warsawa, Poland, Toulouse, France, Belgium, Italy, Egypt, and now in Nanjing, China. Since the first conference the CPE agenda has expanded to cover the important environmental topics of concern to all participating countries. The CPE serves as a forum to highlight technologies that could help our individual nations.
The USEPA and China have been involved since the early 1980s in cooperative projects for environmental research and management. The USEPA has been working with the Chinese government in developing and implementing "Clean Technologies" in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, in presenting pollution prevention and environmental education programs, in pursuing a commitment by the Chinese to phase out lead in gasoline, and in treating the causes of air and water pollution.
The USEPA's China program reflects the several aspects of EPA's mission for international cooperation: research that advances domestic environmental protection activities in China and the US, cooperation that addresses critical global environmental issues such as the protection of the ozone layer and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and partnerships in projects that enhance prospects for US private sector participation in China's environmental protection efforts.