NEWS BULLETIN OF CP/RAC AND ITS NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013 - NUMBER 51
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Call from talk to action for scaling-up innovations enabling sustainable living

In Berlin on 4th and 5th November, a multi-stakeholder dialogue on potential of business and social innovations for enabling changes towards sustainable living was convened by the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production ...

In the opening, Almut Reichel from EEA, mentioned that even though technical progress lead to increases in resource efficiency, in aggregate environmental impacts of ...

 
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Technical session on marine litter issues

On 10th December 2013, the Zero Discharge Association in collaboration with the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (in spanish MAGRAMA) will organize a technical session on Marine litter issues in the ...

Marnoba Project, which is carried out by Zero Discharge Association in collaboration with the Biodiversity Foundation of MAGRAMA and KAI Marine Ecosystems, aims to characterize ...

 
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CP/RAC participated in the Mediterranean Expert Meeting for the Global Sustainable Development Report

CP/RAC participated in the Mediterranean Expert Meeting for the Global Sustainable Development Report
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The Mediterranean Expert Meeting for the Global Sustainable Development Report seeking to bring together existing assessments and to strengthen the science-policy interface for Sustainable Development took place in Dubrovnik on the 21st and 22nd October.

The meeting, held in the framework of the call of the Outcome Document of Rio+20 for a Global Sustainable Development Report, was organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Division for Sustainable Development ...

 
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CP/RAC spoke on scaling-up green entrepreneurship in MENA at the International Business Forum in Istanbul

On 23rd and 24th October, the 16th International Business Forum (#IBF2013) focusing on green and inclusive businesses gathering about 300 participants took place in Istanbul. Based on experience specific to the MENA region, CP/RAC contributed to ...

Created by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and organized by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), the ...

 
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The sixth edition of Global Eco Forum successfully held at La Pedrera

The sixth edition of Global Eco Forum successfully held at La Pedrera
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On 22nd October, the sixth Global Eco Forum (#GEF2013) took place and brought together at La Pedrera (Barcelona) experts, thinkers and professionals committed to a future based on advanced, sustainable and inclusive societies. CP/RAC took part co-organizing a Workshop on Eco-entrepreneurships, Green skills and ...

The event organized by eco-union, bringing together a large number of representatives of public institutions, NGOs, think tanks and businesses, focused its debate on Inclusive Prosperity through the debate on themes such as: water ...

 
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Tunisia hosted a H2020 Capacity Building on Green Finance

The CP/RAC organized, within the Horizon 2020 program, a new capacity building activity on Green Finance the 1st and 2nd of October 2013, in Tunis. Around 30 public policy ...

 
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CP/RAC organized a H2020 Site Visit on Sustainable Management of Industrial Sites in Marseille

CP/RAC organized  a H2020 Site Visit on Sustainable Management of Industrial Sites in Marseille
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Within the Horizon 2020 Capacity Building program, around 15 delegates from various ministries, business associations and consultants from Morocco were invited in Marseille from 17th to 19th September, 2013, to have a better ...

 
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Workshop on PCBs Management in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Workshop on PCBs Management in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production (CP/RAC) and MEDPOL with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia-Herzegovina (MoFTER) organized on September 23rd to 26th, 2013, a PCB ...

 
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