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Waste Management - Meetings and Workshops
2006
December
2006
2nd Meeting of Project Implementation Committee (PIC) for UNEP Project
on Integrated
Solid Waste Management (ISWM) in Wuxi, China, 27 November 2006
December 2006
IETC joins a multi-stakeholder
group of private sector groups, eco-town enterprises, universities and research
institutions
to support and provide advice to the 3R Technology Support Consortium, set up
by the Osaka Prefectural Government.
(read more)
November 2006
IETC successfully organized a thematic session revolving around the concept
of eco-towns on 1 November 2006 as a part of the Eco-Products International
Fair in Singapore. Click here for reports and proceedings of the session.
November 2006
IETC to organize a session on eco-towns
at the Eco-Products Fair 2006 in Singapore on 1 November 2006 (read
more)
September 2006
Eco-town project: IETC to organize
a training programme on the development of eco-towns in the Asia-Pacific region
from 26 September
to 2 October 2006 in Kawasaki, Japan (read more )
June 2006
IETC recently
signed a Framework Agreement with the Wuxi Municipality in the People’s
Republic of China to develop an integrated waste management plan for the
Wuxi New District. The agreement was signed by Mr Zhang Jian Hua for Wuxi
New District
and Mrs. Monique Barbut for UNEP.
The project is based on the concept of integrated waste management, and will
look at waste constituents that can be recycled and reused to the maximum possible
extent and the development of the city can take place in harmony with the environment.
More information on project …
March 2006
UNEP participates
in the 3R Senior Officials Meeting (3R-SOM) in Tokyo, Japan [6-8 March 2006]
January 2006
2nd
Asia-Pacific Eco-Business Forum on "Urban and Industrial Simbiosis",
23-25 January 2006 in Kawasaki, Japan ( Brochure
- PDF 592KB )
2005
September 2005
Eco-Town
Regional Workshop on 8 October 2005, Bangkok Thailand (PDF 342KB)
CITYNET,
APO, GEC and UNEP will organize a thematic session on "Environmentally
Sustainable Industrial Development and the Concept of Eco-Towns in the Asia
Pacific Region" in
Bangkok on 8 October 2005 at Eco-Product International Fair 2005. In the Session,
lessons learnt in the past eco-town initatives and future possibility to apply
the concept of eco-town in the Asia Pacific region will be discussed. For
further information, please contact: 3r@unep.or.jp
June 2005
IETC, in collaboration with GEC and other institutions, recently
organized a High Level Meeting on 3Rs and Integrated Waste Management through
Eco-Town
Development, on 7 June 2005, in Osaka, Japan. Representatives from a number
of international organizations, local government networks and government
ministerial participated in the event. This is an on-going part of IETC's
focus on eco-towns.
A report to be produced as a part of this meeting will be made available
online soon.
June 2005
UNEP's
Executive Director, Klaus Toepfer, launched UNEP's 3R Platform during the 3R
Ministerial Conference held from
28 to 30
April 2005
in Tokyo,
Japan (PDF 27.9KB).
The 3R Platform is an implementation mechanism where different organizations
can work on different issues of the 3R concept, and simultaneously move
towards the overall objectives of sustainable development. For more information
contact
- 3R@unep.or.jp
For more information on the meeting, please visite the official
website.
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