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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 as at 24 April

Draft EGRM-15 Meeting Report - version agreed at 5pm on 26 April 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.3/2024/3 - 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/

Session 2: Updates on UNFC Implementation in Europe and Beyond

UNRMS: Shaping the Future of Resource Management / Optimizing Resource Management for Critical Raw Materials: A Case Study of the Application of UNRMS with Cornwall Regional Government, UK (ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/6)

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

Agenda item 4: Energizing sustainability: Committee on Sustainable Energy's priorities and resource management matters

Agenda item 5: Minerals for the energy transition: United Nations Working Group on Transforming the Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development.

Update on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals

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

Update on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals

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

Update on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals

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

Agenda item 7.1: Social and environmental considerations: Session 2: Decision Support - 1

Classifying the production of lithium, caesium and tantalum from the Tanco Mine, Manitoba, Canada, according to UNFC – A Case Study (ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/12)

Wintershall Dea - UNFC-UNRMS Case study

Fraguva Energy (SME) - UNRMS Case Study

Why investment is needed NOW on both "ends" of the Critical Raw Materials circularity ring - and how UNRMS can help

Classifying the production of lithium, caesium and tantalum from the Tanco Mine, Manitoba, Canada, according to UNFC – A Case Study (ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/12)

Wintershall Dea - UNFC-UNRMS Case study

Fraguva Energy (SME) - UNRMS Case Study

Why investment is needed NOW on both "ends" of the Critical Raw Materials circularity ring - and how UNRMS can help

60754 _ Tania Martins, Chief Geologist, Manitoba Geological Survey _ 390401 _ English _ 773 _ 411447 _ pdf

Classifying the production of lithium, caesium and tantalum from the Tanco Mine, Manitoba, Canada, according to UNFC – A Case Study (ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/12)

Wintershall Dea - UNFC-UNRMS Case study

Fraguva Energy (SME) - UNRMS Case Study

Why investment is needed NOW on both "ends" of the Critical Raw Materials circularity ring - and how UNRMS can help

Classifying the production of lithium, caesium and tantalum from the Tanco Mine, Manitoba, Canada, according to UNFC – A Case Study (ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/12)

Wintershall Dea - UNFC-UNRMS Case study

Fraguva Energy (SME) - UNRMS Case Study

Why investment is needed NOW on both "ends" of the Critical Raw Materials circularity ring - and how UNRMS can help

Resource Management Young Member Group (EGRM-15/2024/INF.2)

Critical Minerals for the Sustainable Energy Transition: A Guidebook to Support Intergenerational Action – Official Launch

Driving Intergenerational Justice in Critical Raw Materials Management: Potential of Demand-side Solutions

Session 3: Responsible resource governance / Agenda item 8: Building Capacity: International Centres of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management and ICE-SRM Criteria for Recognition and Terms of Reference (ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/4)

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 5: Empowering Sustainability

Agenda item 7.1:
UNFC Adoption Group Recommendations
(ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/10)

G axis Task Force Recommendations
(ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/11)

Agenda item 7.1:
UNFC Adoption Group Recommendations
(ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/10)

G axis Task Force Recommendations
(ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/11)

Agenda item 7.1:
UNFC Adoption Group Recommendations
(ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/10)

G axis Task Force Recommendations
(ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/11)

Agenda item 9: Global Initiatives for UNRMS

(a)  Case studies

(b) Regular and extrabudgetary projects

(a)  Case studies

(b) Regular and extrabudgetary projects

(a)  Case studies

(b) Regular and extrabudgetary projects