Transcript FOURTH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH Budapest, 23-25 June 2004 Environment and Health Information System for Europe and the Pollutants Release and Transfer Registers DAFINA DALBOKOVA,

FOURTH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Budapest, 23-25 June 2004
Environment and Health
Information System for
Europe and the
Pollutants Release and
Transfer Registers
DAFINA DALBOKOVA, MICHAL KRZYZANOWSKI
World Health Organization
Regional Office for Europe
Side event: PRTRs Now! How Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers can promote Pan-European
Environmental and Public Health, Bartok room, 23 June 2004, 12:30-13:30
WHO European Centre for Environment and Health
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM AT THE
FOURTH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Environmental Health Indicators:
The DPSEEA framework
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EHIS AT THE FOURTH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Pollutant emissions:
Environmental Health Indicators:
Air Pollution
 Constitute important
information stream in
evaluating health effects
of environmental pollution
as well as policies.
 WHO EHIS focus on:
exposure and health effects
(‘downstream’ information),
and also actions.
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EHIS AT THE FOURTH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Pollutants release and transfer information
 Necessary to have information
on emissions together with
all the models to link it with
population exposures.
 In the case of POPs and other
toxic substances, just the
information on emissions
serves a warning signal.
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Pollutants release and transfer information
 The UNECE conventions, related to them protocols
and the pollutants release and transfer registers
(PRTR) are very important mechanisms to ensure
regular and harmonized national reporting and
access to information.
THANK YOU
http://www.euro.who.int/EHindicators
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