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| Reducing Pesticide Use Studied |
| 日期:2003-09-18 14:46 编辑: system 来源： |
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More than 60 Chinese and overseas environmental protection experts attended a seminar in Beijing yesterday to discuss a draft program for China to reduce the consumption and production of methyl bromide.
Methyl bromide, a broad-ranging pesticide, has been identified as an ozone-depleting substance. Scientific research showed that each atom of bromine from methyl bromide that reaches the stratosphere destroys approximately 60 times more ozone than each atom of chlorine from CFCs.
China has completed a draft of its national action program for the phase-out of methyl bromide and will submit the draft to the 41st meeting of the executive committee of the multilateral fund of the Montreal Protocol, Zhu Guangyao, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, said at the one-day seminar co-sponsored by SEPA and the United Nations Environment Program.
Once the program is passed, China would get financial and technological assistance from the multilateral fund to get rid of the methyl bromide.
Noting that the program is likely to affect the interests of some 900 million Chinese farmers, Zhu said "China will pay high attention to issues in this regard."
Methyl bromide is used widely by Chinese farmers to eliminate pests in soil before planting certain vegetables, tobacco and herbal plants.
Rajendra shende, a UNEP official, said the phase-out of methyl bromide will, to a some extent, affect China's economy.
An implementation of the program needs international help and inter-agency cooperation within China, he said. UNEP said it appreciates China's efforts and is proud of participating in China's methyl bromide phase-out process.
On april 22, China formally joined the Copenhagen Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances. |
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