KeAi Talks – Emerging Contaminants
15 April 2022, 15:30 - 17:25
Topic: Environmental Contaminants and Health Implications
Brief introduction to this webinar:
There are complex interactions between human activities and the surrounding environment and human health. Human activities could lead to changes of environment and health effects. Environmental contaminants including PM2.5 and emerging persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are ubiquitous in the world. It is important to study and clarify the connections between human activities, environmental changes and health effects. This free webinar has been organized to understand the progress of emerging POPs as well as the correlations of energy transition and PM2.5 reductions.
Agenda:
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Time |
Talk Title |
Speaker |
Chair |
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15:30 – 15:35 |
Introduction of Emerging Contaminants |
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15:35 – 16:20 |
Clean material cycles for circular economy: Learning from the challenges of PBDEs, need of urgent control of chlorinated paraffins and many more challenges |
Roland Weber |
Guorui Liu |
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16:20 – 16:50 |
Health and climate co-benefits of PM2.5 reduction under clean household energy transition |
Guofeng Shen |
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16:50 – 17:20 |
Environmentally persistent free radicals in the environment and their correlations with POPs |
Lili Yang |
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17:20 – 17:25 |
Closing remarks |
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Chair:
Prof. Guorui Liu
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Environment and Health, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, China
Guorui Liu is Professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and School of Environment, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS. His research field is focused on the analysis, formation mechanism and control of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and persistent free radicals (EPFRs) in the environment. Prof. Guorui Liu has published about 100 papers on these topics in internationally refereed journals. He is Associate Editor of Emerging Contaminants.
Speakers:
1.Talk Title: Clean material cycles for circular economy: Learning from the challenges of PBDEs, need of urgent control of chlorinated paraffins and many more challenges
Time: 15:35- 16:20
Dr. Roland Weber
POPs Environmental Consulting, Germany
For the past 28 years, Dr. Roland Weber has researched persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
For the past 18 years, he has worked as an international consultant mainly for UN Organisations (UNEP, UNIDO, UNDP, Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention) and environmental ministries on the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on POPs. He has supported more than 30 countries in their National Implementation Plans for POPs reduction and control.
Dr. Weber has published more than 170 papers in scientific journals (h-Index 45) (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roland-Weber-2).
2.Talk Title: Health and climate co-benefits of PM5reduction under clean household energy transition
Time: 16:20 - 16:50
Prof. Guofeng Shen
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Perking University, Beijing, China
Dr. Guofeng Shen has been the Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Peking University since 2018. Prior to joining Peking University, Dr. Shen was an ORISE postdoctoral fellow working at National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he led laboratory tests on air pollutants, especially ultrafine particles, emissions from household cookstoves, and energy efficiencies of LPG stoves and improved stoves burning biomass pellets.
His research interests and experiences are in sustainable household energy and environment, largely focusing on the fates and impacts of regional environmental pollutions, air pollutant emission measurements from the residential sector, exposure and health impacts of air pollution associated with residential solid fuel use. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed research papers.
3.Talk Title: Environmentally persistent free radicals in the environment and their correlations with POPs
Time: 16:50 – 17:20
Dr. Lili Yang
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Lili Yang obtained her PhD degree at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2018. She is currently an associate professor at RCEES, CAS (http://sourcedb.rcees.cas.cn/zw/zjrck/201809/t20180911_5076101.html). Her research field is characteristics, formation mechanisms and control of environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Dr. Yang has published about 20 peer-reviewed articles and is currently the special issue guest editor of Emerging Contaminants (VSI: Old/new POPs Sci and Policy).
Webinar link:
https://keaipublishing.zoom.us/j/83753318405?pwd=NFFRbW1vZGJtcVZhaCtDSDNDWHhsQT09
Webinar ID: 837 5331 8405
Webinar password: 237290