Soil Pollution Management

Soil pollution has become a major threat to the food safety, human health and ecological safety and is a common concern around the world. Soil pollution management requires a complex, systematic and long-term effort. In China, this is just getting started and is faced with tremendous challenges and difficulties such as the absence of laws and regulations, the ambiguity of liability, lack of accountability and, poor management capacity. The development of laws and regulations concerning the investigation, classification, risk assessment and remediation of contaminated sites should be ranked as a top priority for soil pollution management capacity building undertakings.

Task Force: National Green Governance System Topic: Pollution Prevention and Control Year: 2015 Phase: Phase V (2012-2017) Concluded