A government delegation of Guatemala visited SCP/RAC

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On March 13th 2014, the Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP/RAC) received the visit from a delegation of the Government of Guatemala, in the framework of the “ADA-Integración” Project of cooperation between the EU and the Central American countries. The Ministry of Environment and ...

The Guatemalan delegation consisted of: -Ana Dolores Consuelo Arévalo, project coordinator pursuant to the Stockholm Convention, MARN, -Maria Olga Morales, environmental consultant, MARN, -Jennifer Waleska Zamora, Unit for ...

The city of Ramallah hosted a H2020 Training on Sustainable Stone and Marble Industry

A national training on Sustainable Stone and Marble Industry was held in Ramallah from 10th to 11th March 2014 in the framework of the EC funded H2020 CP/MEP initiative. The event, organized by SCP/RAC, was attended by around 40 representatives ...

The training was designed to share best practices promoting a more sustainable Stone & Marble Industry as well as undertaking a general review of the environmental ...

SCP as priority topic for the next Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Environment and Climate Change

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SCP/RAC actively participated in a series of meetings organized in Amman by the Co-Presidencies of the Union for the Mediterranean, the European Union and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in view of the preparation of the Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Environment and Climate Change.

On the 10th and 11th of March took place a Stakeholder Conference  aiming at collecting the inputs from various stakeholders in the Mediterranean Region, in particular financial institutions, academia, UN agencies, industry ...

The clean production and waste management of olive oil were the focus of a new H2020 Sub-regional Training

In the framework of the EC funded H2020 CB/MEP initiative, the SCP/RAC has organized a sub-regional training on Sustainable Olive Oil in Amman from the 24th to the 26th of February 2014. The main objective of the activity was to increase the ...

The event, that gathered around 50 representatives of ministries, NGO's, producers and research centres coming from Jordan, Palestine and Israel, was designed to ...

The 34th edition of the international conference on Persistent Organic Pollutants, Dioxin 2014, will be held in Madrid in August-September 2014

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The 34th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Dioxin 2014, will gather the scientific community determined to look for new scientific strategies, policies and technological advances to protect the global environment from POPs, from 31st August to 5th September in Madrid (Spain).

Dioxin 2014 is the most important international conference on POPs; pollutants regulated globally by the Stockholm Convention, from which SCP/RAC is a regional centre. The symposium is the leading international conference for ...

Success of the PCBs management workshop in Egypt

More than 100 participants attended the workshop organized by SCP/RAC and MEDPOL, with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of State of Environmental Affairs (MSEA), on Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) management in Alexandria (Egypt) on February ...

The workshop aimed at introducing the environmentally sound management (ESM) of PCBs to local experts while also training them on oil sampling and analysis of PCBs by using the ...

H2020 strengthens capacities on Industrial Management and environmental governance in Tunisia

Industrial Management and environmental governance were at the centre of the capacity building workshop organized in Gabes (Tunisia) on 12th and 13th February 2014 by SCP/RAC, within the framework of the EC funded H2020 CB/MEP program.

The training, which was attended by around 50 professionals from industries, civil society and local and national authorities, aimed to enhance participants knowledge on ...

Workshop on Ecotourism as an Opportunity for Sustainable Development in Boka Kotorska, 30th of Jan – 1st of Feb 2014, Kotor

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In the framework of Coastal Area of Montenegro (CAMP Montenegro) a three day Workshop was held in Boka Kotorska on Ecotourism aimed to explore the opportunities for sustainable development of the highly vulnerable micro region of Boka Kotorska Bay while achieving its  good environmental status. UNEP/MAP regional ...

The main objective of the workshop was to share best practices, obtain a SWOT analysis and define actions and strategies to boost ecotourism. Awareness raising was also given a special place in the scope of the workshop since the ...

Jordan hosted a H2020 workshop on Green Finance

A sub-regional workshop on Green Finance took place in Amman (Jordan) the 28-29th of January with more than 30 Jordanian, Egyptian and Lebanese delegates from Ministries, banks, academia and NGOs.  The workshop, organized by SCP/RAC in the ...

The main objective of the activity was to increase the participants understanding of opportunities and challenges related to the development and implementation of financial ...

Albania hosted a new workshop on PCBs Management

More than 50 participants attended the workshop on Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) management organized by SCP/RAC and MEDPOL, with the support of the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Water Administration of Albania, in Tirana (Albania) in ...

The workshop aimed at introducing the environmentally sound management (ESM) of PCBs to local experts and also training them on sampling and analysis of PCBs by using the ...