The UNECE Resource Management Week 2024, including the 15th session of the Expert Group on Resource Management (EGRM-15), will be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 22-26 April 2024.
Leaders, experts, and stakeholders in resource management will gather to discuss sustainable development challenges and opportunities. Our theme, "Assuring sustainability in resource management", will focus on the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) and the United Nations Resource Management System (UNRMS) and their pivotal role in resource management worldwide.
Agenda highlights:
- Seminars, Workshops, and Short Courses: Focusing on the UNFC and UNRMS as catalysts for transforming raw materials management.
- Minerals for the Energy Transition: Highlighting the work of the UN Working Group on Transforming Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development.
- Responsible Resource Management: The development and deployment of UNRMS.
- Navigating the Future: Exploring various applications of UNFC.
- Building capacity: International Centres of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management.
- Empowering Sustainability: Discussing global initiatives and case studies.
- Lunchtime lectures: Professor Peter Hopkinson, Co-Director, Exeter Centre for the Circular Economy, Exeter University, and Professor Markus Zils, Circular Economy and Management Science, University of Exeter Business School, UK, on Circular Data (23 April) and Sarah Gordon, CEO, Satarla on The beauty of interconnected natural resource ecosystems, with a focus on ESG issues (25 April).
This event promises to be a platform for innovative thinking, sharing best practices, and setting a sustainable course for resource management.
See Week Overview
Detailed Programme
EGRM-15 Meeting Report - Final Version
Global use of UNFC and UNRMS grows to support more sustainable resource management (UNECE News, 03 May 2024)
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