Sweden, Belarus to share experience in environmental monitoring

Belarusian and Swedish scientists will share the experience of holding different types of environmental monitoring at the conference "Environmental monitoring: scientific results, modern technology and prospects", BelTA learned from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection.

The event will be held as part of the 11th national environmental forum on 21 August. The event will take place at the consultation and methodological center of the State Committee on Science and Technology of Belarus.

The meeting is scheduled to discuss the domestic and foreign experience of holding different types of environmental monitoring: air, water, land, flora and fauna, greenhouse gases, radiation.

The meeting will also analyze the effectiveness of the existing environmental monitoring systems, current environmental problems (chemical and radioactive contamination of soil, land degradation, air and water pollution, expansion of invasive plant species and others). Scientists will discuss the issues of the development of information systems to monitor the environment, the ways of improving the quality of the monitoring information and the extent of its use, and the public access to the research data.

The conference will bring together more than 100 people. Among them will be representatives of scientific, educational, industrial and other organizations of Belarus and Sweden.

The conference is organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection of Belarus together with the research institute BelNITS Ecology, the center for environmental solutions, and the republican scientific and technical library.