Regional Working Group on Land-Based Pollution
UNEP/GEF South China Sea Project

RWG-LbP Contacts

Cambodia
Mr. Pak Sokharavuth
Deputy Director
Department of Pollution Control
Ministry of Environment
48 Samdech Preah Sihanouk
Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamkarmon
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel:   (855 23) 222 439
Mobile: (855) 12 962 103
Fax:  (855 23) 987 880
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China
Professor Han Baoxin
Deputy Director
South China Institute of Environmental Sciences
State Environmental Protection Administration
7 West Yuancun Road
Guangzhou 510655
Guangdong Province, China
Tel:   (86 20) 855 41616
Mobile: (86) 13 90 240 8273
Fax:   (86 20) 8552 5658
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Indonesia
Mr. Heru Waluyo Koesworo
Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Environment
on Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Affairs
Ministry of Environment
IL D.I. Panjaitan, Kebon Nanas
Jakarta 13410, Indonesia
Tel: (62 21) 8590 5638
Mobile: 0812 9261652
Fax:  (62 21) 8590 4929
Home fax: (62 21) 5575 3687
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Malaysia
Ir. Lee Heng Keng
Deputy Director-General (Operations)
Department of Environment, Malaysia (DOE)
Level 3-7, Block C4, Parcel C
Federal Government Administrative Centre
62662 Putrajaya, Malaysia
Tel: 603 8885 8204
Fax: 603 8889 1973
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Philippines
Mr. Vicente R. Diaz
Chief
Environmental Management Bureau (EMB)
DENR Compound, Visayas Avenue
Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Tel:    (632) 426 4337; 426 4332
Mobile: (63) 915 3644495
Fax:   (632) 426 4340
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Thailand
Dr. Pornsook Chongprasith
Director
Marine Environment Division
Pollution Control Department
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
Soi Pahon Yothin 7, Pahon Yothin Rd.,
Sam Sen Nai, Phaya Thai
Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Tel:  (662) 298 2241-2
Mobile: (66) 01 816 4280
Fax:  (662) 298 2240
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Vietnam
Dr. Pham Van Ninh
Professor and Director
Center for Marine Environment Survey
Research & Consultation
Institute of Mechanics, NCST
264 Doi Can Str.
Hanoi, Viet Nam
Tel:   (844) 832 6136, 832 6195
Fax:   (844) 832 7903
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Project Coordinating Unit Member
Dr. Vo Si Tuan
Senior Expert
UNEP/GEF Project Coordinating Unit
United Nations Building
2nd Floor, Block B
Rajdamnern Avenue
Bangkok, 10200, Thailand
Tel: (662) 288 2084
Fax: (662) 288 1094
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Experts
Dr. Gullaya Wattayakorn
Marine Science Department
Chulalongkorn University
Phayathai Road
Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Tel: (662) 218 5407; 218 5409
Mobile: (66) 01 812 2112
Fax: (662) 255 0780
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Dr. Anond Snidvongs, Director
Southeast Asia START Regional Center
SWU Pathumwan 5 Building, 5th Floor
Henri Dunant Road
Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Tel:  (662) 218 9464-7
Mobile: (66) 06 0428915; 01 832 2970
Fax:  (662) 251 9416
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This is homepage of the Regional Working on Land-Based Pollution. It is the responsibility of the Working Group and is overseen by the Project Co-ordinating Unit's Senior Expert, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

This component addresses the major problem of land-based pollution through an initial review of national standards and controls, and an examination of actions required to: harmonise such standards at a regional level; review and assess existing knowledge of regional water quality, determine information gaps, evaluate carrying/assimilation capacity of sub-regions and sensitive ecosystems and transboundary movements of contaminants within the South China Sea; produce guidelines/action programmes for implementation of the GPA at the national and regional level; and prepare guidelines for the development of national management plans, including capacity building; legislation, and other appropriate components to achieve the agreed water quality objectives; review national capacity to test, monitor, control and enforce water quality and effluent standards and to develop and finalise national and regional management plans to reach specified objectives within defined time frames that will be incorporated into the Strategic Action Programme for the South China Sea; and to initiate capacity building activities and demonstration projects addressing specific pollutants of global, regional and transboundary significance.

Once agreement has been reached on regional water quality objectives and standards, criteria will be developed and adopted for evaluating the regional and transboundary importance of pollution "hot spots" identified in the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (severity of pollution, feasibility/ease of mitigation, transboundary effect). The criteria will be applied to all nationally identified hot spots in order to agree on a regional priority listing for investment. A preliminary evaluation of the costs and benefits of alternative mitigation measures for selected priority hot spots will be undertaken together with pre-feasibility studies for appropriate mitigation measures for priority pollution sources. A South China Sea strategic approach to mitigating priority regional hot spots (including priority investment portfolio, co-financing arrangements, national and regional actions) will be developed and agreed for inclusion in the Strategic Action Programme for the South China Sea.

Land-Based Pollution Information Resources 

Reports of the Meetings of the Regional Working Groups on Land-Based Pollution

Online South China Sea Meta-Database

Online Nutrient Carrying Capacity Model for the South China Sea