The overall objective of this activity is to safeguard the Palestinian environment through:
- Enhancing cooperation between the key stakeholders, Ministry of Environment Affaires, Ministry of National Economy and private sector, Ministry of local Government and Palestinian Water Authority;
- Highlighting the most environmentally vulnerable spots and highly polluted areas and implement solutions for these hot spots.
In particular, the activity includes the following steps:
- Assess, update and establish baseline data on the number, classifications, categories and types of industrial enterprises and administrative data, such as number of employees, etc.;
- Defining the gaps and perform complementary survey on pollution sources with GIS techniques (industrial, waste water, land fill, etc.);
- Develop environmental conditions (check list) for selected industries;
- Establish and/or update national by-laws and specific rules and guidelines for industrial emissions of selected heavy polluters [liquid, gaseous and solid wastes emissions];
- Develop and conduct specialized training and awareness programs about cleaner production principles for industrial production streams within selected industrial heavy polluters [e.g. pharmaceutical, tanning, stone cutting and olive mills];
- Develop Environmental Map and Mapping of environmental hot spots (wastewater treatment plants, wastewater discharge points, random dumping, sanitary landfills, charcoal industry,..) using GIS, GPS and presenting them on a map;
- Selecting pilot from the polluted industries and carry out environmental auditing;
- Applying cleaner production principles to reduce pollution emissions taking stone cutting industry as a case study; and
- Development and implementation of an environmental mapping web portal.
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Documents
Industrial loads assessment Vol. 1
Industrial loads assessment Vol. 2
Policy and technical guidelines for monitoring and reporting pollutant releases and transfers
Identification of Priority Pollution Hotspots and Sensitive Areas in Palestine
Terms of reference
News
Developing a National Database of industrial pollution for Palestine: Inception workshop,West Bank, November 22, 2014
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