Soil pollution: an agenda for action - Natalia Rodriguez
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The 21st World Congress of Soil Science Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 12 - 17 August 2018
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Soil pollution: an agenda for action - Natalia Rodriguez
- 1. Soil pollution: an agenda for action Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio
- 2. Chemical degradation Presence in the soil of substances out of place and/or present at a concentration that has adverse effects on soil properties, human and animal health and in the environment. What is soil pollution?
- 3. Human activities are the main sources of soil pollution What is soil pollution?
- 4. 2015 Soil pollution is one of the ten major threats What is soil pollution?
- 5. Soil pollution: a major threat It is a worldwide problem, no pristine areas
- 6. Soil pollution: a major threat
- 7. Soil pollution: a major threat The achievement of 12 goals is directly linked to the prevention and minimization of soil pollution
- 8. Why a Global Symposium on Soil Pollution? Provide scientific evidence to support actions and decisions to prevent and reduce soil pollution for increased food safety, food security and nutrition, ecosystem services, and promote the restoration of polluted sites.
- 9. Global Symposium on Soil Pollution
- 10. Global Symposium on Soil Pollution
- 11. 525 participants: • Scientists • Governments • Policy-makers • Industry • Land users Pacific Female 39% Male 61% GSOP18 in numbers
- 12. Scientific materials Awareness-raising Outcome document GSOP18 outcomes Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio Luca Montanarella Michael McLaughlin
- 13. GSOP18 on the media
- 14. GSOP18: main conclusions Scientifically demonstrated that soil pollution poses a worrisome threat to agricultural productivity, food safety, the environment and human health. Tackling soil pollution requires joint efforts to prevent, minimize and remediate it.
- 15. The prevention of soil pollution should be a top priority worldwide and when present, minimization/remediation actions should be implemented; The status of global soil pollution is still unknown. Investment on national soil information systems and capacity development is a precondition. GSOP18: main conclusions
- 16. 1. Awareness raising on soil pollution 2. Establish a working group to develop a technical and institutional manual for assessing, mapping, monitoring and reporting on soil pollution. 3. Develop guidelines and a database of best practices for addressing soil pollution (management and remediation). GSOP18: way forward
- 17. 4. Implementation of existing guidelines 5. Foster capacity development: from assessment to remediation GSOP18: way forward
- 18. Global Assessment of Soil Pollution Using a country-driven process in line with the UNEA3 resolution “Managing soil pollution to achieve sustainable development” To clearly understand the extent and what needs to be done to prevent, minimize and remediate soil pollution.
- 19. Code of Conduct for the Use and Management of Fertilizers A further step towards SSM, soil pollution prevention and for better management of fertilizers
- 20. It’s time to take actions, let’s be the SOLUTION TO SOIL POLLUTION!
Hinweis der Redaktion
- - Human activities are the main cause of soil pollution. Pollutants can be release in the environment from industrial, military and extractive activities, transports, poor agricultural practices, such as excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers, and irrigation with improperly treated wastewater, uncontrolled dumping of waste and improper solid waste management, unsafe storage of obsolete stockpiles of hazardous chemicals, leachates from mismanaged landfills, and oil spills Nuclear accidents and weapons testing,.
- The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soil develop on 2015 a comprehensive analysis of the Status of the World's Soil Resources (SWSR) where ten major threats to soil health and the ecosystems services provided by them were identified. Soil pollution is included among the main soil threats affecting global soils.
- Soil pollution is a worldwide problem, - the consumption of goods in one place of the world has an ecological footprint in the place where they were produced, as well as during their transport.
- Furthermore, soil pollution is closely related to pollution in other environmental compartments, Such as water, air and oceans and causes severe problems in human and animal health, Reduces food safety and security, And induces poverty and migration
- soil pollution is threaten the achievement of 12 of the 17 goals for sustainable development.
- With this alarming data, on the fifth plenary of the GSP, the ITPS received the mandate to organise a symposium on soil pollution to provide scientific evidence to support actions and decisions to prevent and reduce soil pollution for increased food safety, food security and nutrition, ecosystem services, and promote the restoration of polluted sites.
- - The GSOP18 was a milestone event: It was successfully co-organized by the GSP and its ITPS, The UN Environment, the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and the World Health Organization. The Global Symposium on Soil Pollution set the scientific basis
- The GSOP18 was the first step on the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management Brought evidence to identify the role of soil pollution on achieving the SDGs. and allowed to identify the main gaps and solutions that will support the implementation of the UNEA-3 declaration on soil pollution for sustainable development.
- and brought together more than 500 scientists, policymakers, people from soil remediation companies, land users’ associations and the agrochemical industry from around the world, who identified the main knowledge gaps and jointly discussed the main actions to be taken to prevent, minimize and remedy soil pollution
- Several scientific and dissemination materials were produced for the symposium, focusing on different audiences. In addition, two special issues are under preparation with the best contributions to the symposium. The outcome document summarizes the main discussions and conclusions reached during the symposium and recommendations for future action on the prevention, monitoring, minimization and remediation of soil pollution.
- - Apart from the scientific importance of the symposium, it called the attention of the media around the world
- There are enough scientific evidence to demonstrate that soil pollution is a worrying problem that needs to be tackle now. We cannot wait any longer or the consequences will be too severe. All stakeholders, from farmers and civil society to policymakers, governments, the industry and the scientific community, have a responsibility and a role to play in preventing and controlling soil pollution.
- The potential of soils to cope with pollution is limited. Soil pollution has a high economic and social cost, reduces crop yields, induces land abandonment and migration, causes a variety of diseases, many of them with chronic effects, and is highly resource-intensive to be remediated. So, Prevention must be a global priority. Despite all the efforts done until now, many uncertainties still remain. National soil information, technical capacity building and technology transfer are essential to assess soil pollution impacts at a global scale
- Participants in the GSOP18 acknowledged the key role of the GSP to raise awareness globally of the unsustainable practices that are favoring soil pollution spreading. Making people, from children and young people to politicians and decision-makers, aware of the risk posed by our actions is one of the main challenges and the first step in dealing with soil pollution. The GSP has a great expertise in this regard, the workforce and the ability to reach out to different sectors involved. We must build on the networks that have been created during the symposium and the willingness to collaborate expressed by many participants and create multi-stakeholders working groups to develop regionally contextualized guidelines of good practices for pollution prevention, minimization and remediation, as well as the best approaches for monitoring and evaluating soil pollution. Symposium participants recommended that the VGSSM be refined to provide context-specific guidance on the sustainable management of soils at the national and local scales to prevent and minimize soil pollution.
- There are several international tools and agreements that can be implemented and improved to effectively combat soil pollution such as Codex Alimentarius, VGSSM, Code of Conduct on Pesticides Management, Global AMR Plan… Symposium participants recommended that the VGSSM be refined to provide context-specific guidance on the sustainable management of soils at the national and local scales to prevent and minimize soil pollution. We have to advocate for the investment on soil pollution, including the establishment of national soil information systems; and foster capacity building and training activities covering the full cycle of soil pollution: from assessment to remediation