5th Meeting, 15th Session of the Expert Group…

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).

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

• Chair: David MacDonald
• Keynote: Empowering equality: Gender and social justice in artisanal and small-scale mining and resource management - Anna Nguno, Deputy Director, Geological Survey of Namibia, Ministry of Mines and Energy
• Keynote: Financing a just transition in the extractives sector - Jodi-Ann Wang, Policy Analyst, LSE Grantham Research Institute, Just Transition Finance Lab

Agenda item 5: 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

• Moderator: Gioia Falcone, Vice-Chair, EGRM
• Maria José Baptista, Interagency and Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, UNEP

 Panel

• Djaheezah Subratty, Head, Consumption and Production Unit, UNEP
• Xunpeng Shi, Consultant, UNESCAP
• John Sloan, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA
• Radia Sedaoui, Chief of Energy Section, Climate Change and Natural Resource Sustainability Cluster, UNESCWA
• Rodrigo Furtado Messias, Associate Economic Affairs Officer, Non- renewable Resources Unit, Natural Resources Division UNECLAC
• Clovis Freire, Chief, Commodities Research and Analysis Section, UNCTAD
• Hari Tulsidas, Technical Advisor, Sustainable Energy Division, UNECE
• Discussions, Q&A