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New Environmentalism Summit and Green Week 2014

On 3 June, the European Commission organized an event that brought together celebrities, former politicians, business leaders, media and other personalities, and some of the world’s leading NGOs to discuss why we haven’t collectively made the necessary breakthroughs and how we might do so in the future. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner participated with a TEDx-style talk.


On 4 June, UNEP held a high-level panel discussion on green economy, finance and sustainable production and consumption in Small Island Developing States. UNEP was also involved in a number of sessions, including in the launch of the International Resource Panel (IRP) assessment report "Decoupling in practice".


The following side sessions were held, with UNEP and UNEP-hosted IRP representatives: “Gearing up cities for the circular economy” (with IRP member Maarten Hajer), “Resource efficiency: how to get investors on board?” (with Charles Anderson, Director, UNEP Finance Initiative), “International dimension: resource efficiency in the Sustainable Development Goals” (with George C. Varughese, President of Development Alternatives and IRP member; Prof. Stefan Bringezu, Wuppertal Institute and IRP member; and Prof. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-Chair of IRP, Co-President of The Club of Rome and lead author of the Decoupling II report), and “Building the knowledge base for a greener economy” (with Joy A. Kim, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UNEP/Division of Technology, Industry and Economics).


More Information see: New Environmentalism Summit and Green Week

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Environment and Security Initiative sends team of experts to arsenic mining site in Georgia

Following an arsenic spill in Tsana, Georgia, a team of experts led by UNEP and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, visited the country from 2 to 6 May, in the framework of the Environment and Security Initiative project "Addressing Emergency Environment and Security Threats at the Arsenic Mining Site in Tsana, Georgia". International and national experts assessed the situation at three locations in the Tsana area, where arsenic containing mining waste is stored.


The mining factory ceased its operation in the beginning of 1990s leaving mercury containing waste stored at three sites in Tsana (Tsana 1-3). Due to poor management, over 50,000 tons of arsenic containing waste resulting from former Soviet times production of arsenic anhydride and metallic arsenic pose significant risks to the surrounding environment and communities.


The mission was in response to the appeal by Georgia’s Minister of Environment and Natural Resource Protection to OSCE and the ENVSEC Initiative following a flooding in September 2013 that increased the risk of leakage.


The expert team visited Georgia’s National Environmental Agency, which is undertaking the environmental monitoring, including analysis of soil and water samples, and held meetings with the local administration of Lentekhi. They also provided an initial briefing to the Minister, who pledged full support to the technical mission.


More Information: marika.palosaari@unep.org

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