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UNECE Resource Management Week 2024

Including the 15th Session of the Expert Group on Resource Management

22 April (10:00) - 26 April (18:00) 2024
Tempus, Palais des Nations Geneva Switzerland

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)


Watch live at UN TV

Please check the daily schedule :  Live Schedule | UN Web TV
and scroll down until you see 15th Session of the Expert Group on Resource Management or Lecture

Logistics

60392 _ Logistical note and practical information _ 390126 _ English _ 773 _ 410720 _ pdf
60392 _ Map with directions to Tempus Meeting Room, E and H Buildings _ 390125 _ English _ 773 _ 410715 _ pdf

Documents

57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/1 - Annotated provisional agenda for the fifteenth session _ 388000 _ English _ 773 _ 409689 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/1 - Annotated provisional agenda for the fifteenth session _ 388000 _ French _ 780 _ 409690 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/1 - Annotated provisional agenda for the fifteenth session _ 388000 _ Russian _ 864 _ 409691 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/2 - EGRM-15 meeting report _ 390835 _ English _ 773 _ 412621 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/3 - EGRM Document Review and Approval Process _ 388202 _ English _ 773 _ 409641 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/3 - EGRM Document Review and Approval Process _ 388202 _ French _ 780 _ 409642 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/3 - EGRM Document Review and Approval Process _ 388202 _ Russian _ 864 _ 409643 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/5 - Bridging Document between the CRIRSCO Template and UNFC _ 388203 _ English _ 773 _ 409638 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/5 - Bridging Document between the CRIRSCO Template and UNFC _ 388203 _ French _ 780 _ 409639 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/5 - Bridging Document between the CRIRSCO Template and UNFC _ 388203 _ Russian _ 864 _ 409640 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/8 - Revised Mandate and Terms of Reference of the Expert Group on Resource Management _ 389253 _ English _ 773 _ 409634 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/8 - Revised Mandate and Terms of Reference of the Expert Group on Resource Management _ 389253 _ French _ 780 _ 409635 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/8 - Revised Mandate and Terms of Reference of the Expert Group on Resource Management _ 389253 _ Russian _ 864 _ 409636 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/10 - Informed Dialogue and Decisions for Sustainable Development – Adoption of UNFC _ 389947 _ English _ 773 _ 410289 _ pdf
57270 _ ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/11 - Task Force report and recommendations on use of UNFC G axis _ 389666 _ English _ 773 _ 409645 _ pdf

Room Documents

59997 _ EGRM-15/2024/INF.1 - Draft Conclusions and Recommendations for EGRM-15 as at 8 April 2024 _ 389807 _ English _ 773 _ 409961 _ pdf
59997 _ EGRM-15/2024/INF.2 - EGRM-15/2024/INF.2 – EGRM Resource Management Young Member Group Report on Activities in 2023 _ 389813 _ English _ 773 _ 409997 _ pdf

Audio Recordings and ListenLive broadcast

AUDIO RECORDINGS

Audio recordings (in English, French and Russian) are posted at Digital Recordings Portal/Division of Conference Management UN Geneva at http://conf.unog.ch/digitalrecordings/  

Please select: "Organization": ECE/ENERGY)

 

ListenLive broadcast

ListenLive broadcast at: https://listen-live.unog.ch/en/

Opening Session

Reshaping Resource Management – Embracing Challenges, Prospects, and Innovative Solutions - Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, UNECE 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/FdnpGPIwbV4


UNECE Resource Management Week 2024 - Opening video - Kuba Wesolinski, Sustainable Energy Division, UNECE 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/FdnpGPIwbV4

Seminar: Updates on UNFC Implementation in Europe and Beyond

Short Course: UNRMS - Shaping the Future of Resource Management

Session 1: Reshaping Resource Management: Embracing Novel Challenges, Prospects, and Innovative Solutions

Update on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals - Maria José Baptista, Interagency and Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, UNEP 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/swyIBwl8JvQ


Collaboration for Critical Raw Materials: Activities of the Working Group on Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development / Minerals for the Energy Transition: Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development - John Sloan, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/anG-bkdK7-g

Update on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals - Maria José Baptista, Interagency and Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, UNEP 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/swyIBwl8JvQ


Collaboration for Critical Raw Materials: Activities of the Working Group on Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development / Minerals for the Energy Transition: Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development - John Sloan, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/anG-bkdK7-g

Update on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals - Maria José Baptista, Interagency and Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, UNEP 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/swyIBwl8JvQ


Collaboration for Critical Raw Materials: Activities of the Working Group on Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development / Minerals for the Energy Transition: Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development - John Sloan, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/anG-bkdK7-g

Update on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals - Maria José Baptista, Interagency and Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, UNEP 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/swyIBwl8JvQ


Collaboration for Critical Raw Materials: Activities of the Working Group on Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development / Minerals for the Energy Transition: Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development - John Sloan, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/anG-bkdK7-g

Update on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals - Maria José Baptista, Interagency and Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, UNEP 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/swyIBwl8JvQ


Collaboration for Critical Raw Materials: Activities of the Working Group on Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development / Minerals for the Energy Transition: Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development - John Sloan, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA 
On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/anG-bkdK7-g

Resource Management Young Member Group

Session 3: Responsible resource governance

60816 _ ICE-SRM Central Asia - Farkhat Abytov, Executive Director _ 390432 _ English _ 773 _ 411506 _ pdf
60816 _ ICE-SRM Central Asia - Farkhat Abytov, Executive Director _ 390432 _ Russian _ 864 _ 411595 _ pdf
60816 _ Aleksandr Shpilman, Co-Chair, Technical Advisory Group _ 390435 _ Bengali _ 749 _ 411509 _ pdf

Session 4: Decision Support – 2

Session 5: Empowering Sustainability