The whole strip of China's east coast dense sources of mercury dispersal.

Vietnam certainly cannot avoid pollution because it is very close and convenient for emissions.

At the Air Pollution Conference in Vietnam - the current situation and solutions organized by the National Assembly Office this morning, Mr. Nguyen Van Thuy, Director of the Center for Environmental Monitoring, shared with the Domestic pollution sources, Vietnam is facing cross-border air pollution.

Cross-border pollution

According to Thuy, Vietnam has borders with a number of countries with rather strong production activities, certainly affected by cross-border pollution.

The problem of cross-border pollution is quite a lot, not only the influence of one of the two neighboring countries, but we are also affected from quite remote areas.

In particular, in the winter in the north, we are influenced by the northeast monsoon, certainly the pollution from China has transported into Vietnam.

Some problems, such as acid deposition, photochemical smog or trans-boundary pollution, have yet to be evident but there are certain signs of influence. Particularly, acid deposition monitoring has detected contaminants from other countries.

Mr. Thuy said, currently there are not many data on cross-border pollution issues. However, Vietnam has started to participate in monitoring network of acid deposition, mercury, and cross-border pollutants, we will have data for some time.

How to solve?

About cross-border mercury pollution, according to Mr. Thuy, this is a problem that is of great concern to countries around the world. Beside us, on the map assessing the source of mercury emissions in the world air, scientists mark the entire strip of China's east coast dense sources of mercury emissions.

Mercury from China spread to surrounding countries such as Japan, Korea, even the US. Vietnam does not have direct measurement data but it is inevitable because it is very close and convenient for emissions.

Mr. Thuy added that in the coming time, the Mianmanta Convention on mercury has been approved by 38 countries, if enough, 50 countries will be approved. At that time, the global mercury pollution network will be built to monitor the evolution and spread of mercury in the air.

According to Truong Manh Tien, Chairman of the Association of Environmental Economics, mercury pollution has spread to Japan, South Korea, even the US, Vietnam is near and unavoidable.

Mr. Tien said that Vietnam should rely on international conventions to develop commitments between the two countries on cross-border pollution issues.