Capacity Building Workshop on “Transition towards Resource Efficiency and a
Green Economy”, Ulanbaatar, Mongolia, 3 March 2011
UNEP and the Mongolian Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism (MNET)
will jointly organize a small group capacity building workshop on transition towards resource efficiency and a green economy on 3 March 2011 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This is aimed at awareness raising and capacity building to support MNET's plan to develop a national roadmap for transition toward resource efficiency and a green economy. UNEP will also work with MNET to define the scope and the elements of the national roadmap for resource efficiency, Sustainable production and consumption and a green economy.
Workshop on Law to Promote Resource Efficiency, Sustainable Consumption
and Production and Green Economy, Hanoi, Vietnam, 4 March 2011
UNEP and the Vietnam Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (ISPONRE) will jointly organize a workshop on Law to promote resource efficiency, sustainable consumption and production and green economy on 4 March 2011 2011, Hanoi, Vietnam, with funding from Hanns Siedel Foundation. This is an inception workshop to launch a project in Vietnam to support the plan of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) to develop a national legal framework for promoting resource efficiency, sustainable consumption and production and a green economy.
UNEP en.lighten initiative to hold efficient lighting workshop during Singapore International Energy Week
The UNEP/GEF en.lighten initiative is conducting a workshop on 4 November 2011 entitled “The Global Transition to Energy Efficient Lighting in Southeast Asia,” to be held in conjunction with Singapore International Energy Week.
The objective of the meeting is to assess opportunities for the transition to energy-efficient lighting for countries in the Southeast Asian region and to examine the economic and environmental benefits that such a shift would produce. UNEP will also unveil a report that highlights the activities and challenges facing the lighting sector in Southeast Asia.
The meeting will serve to introduce the Global Efficient Lighting Partnership Program, which has been developed to encourage interested countries to participate in a coordinated effort to transition to efficient lighting as a key efficiency and climate mitigation measure.
For more information on the Workshop, please contact Laura Fuller at laura.fuller@unep.org
For more information on the en.lighten initiative, go to www.enlighten-initiative.org
China to launch USD265M project to protect ozone and climate
In a country considered as the number one producer and consumer of ozone-depleting and powerful greenhouse gases HCFCs, which is tantamount to massive amount of pollution, the phase-out of said substance has become a top priority in a meeting of public and private sectors that is taking place next week in Shanghai . To do this, China 's Ministry of Environmental Protection will launch on 19 December 2011 the HCFC Phase-out Management Plan (HPMP), a US$256 million project to cut its consumption of HCFCs by 2015. In the event, the central governmental Ministries, industry associations, local EPBs as well as large companies that produce/use HCFC are expected to commit support to the programme. The funding for the HPMP was approved by the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol in July 2011 to assist China in their historic commitment on environmental protection. All Montreal Protocol implementing agencies UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO and the World Bank, and the Governments of Germany and Japan are assisting China in their HPMP.
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