Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for Capacity Building and the Transfer of Technology in the Czech Republic is a body supporting sound chemicals management in the Central and Eastern European region and worldwide.

Stockholm Convention Regional Centre

Following its official designation in Decision SC-4/23 of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in May 2009, the Czech Republic hosts the Regional Centre for Capacity Building and Technology Transfer of the Stockholm Convention. The Regional Centre provides long-term support to 23 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and serves as a strategic scientific partner for more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia. It is a project partner of UNEP, UNIDO and UNDP in capacity building projects in developing countries, and organizes conferences, seminars and summer schools. The Regional Centre receives support for its activities from a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of the Environment for the provision of the Regional Centre's functions, as well as from its scientific and capacity-building projects that the Regional Centre prepares for partner countries and institutions.

Objectives of the Centre

  • Support the implementation of the obligations under the Stockholm Convention (Decisions SC 2/9, SC-3/19) and to provide assistance and cooperation in capacity building and technology transfer in monitoring, sampling and analytical methods and procedures, environmental modelling, data analysis, ecotoxicology and risk assessment
  • Assistance in solving specific problems - identification of environmental contamination, implementation of pilot studies, design and construction of laboratory infrastructure and monitoring networks, practical solutions to environmental problems, decontamination, remediation, risk assessment and acquisition and use of available data
  • Promotion of the ratification and implementation of global instruments in the field of chemicals and waste management and link available information in the field of environmental sciences (environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, effects of chemicals on living organisms, environmental and health risk analysis and impacts of chemical pollution on biodiversity and ecosystems).
  • Contribution to the development of specialised centres that are able to provide technical support (capacity building and technology transfer) in their field beyond their own region.

 

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