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Austria and Georgia, in collaboration with Norway and Rwanda as the Co-Chairs of the High Ambition Coalition, will co-host a webinar titled ‘Plastics on the Peak: Eliminating releases of plastic waste to air, water and land in mountainous regions’ with speakers from the UN, Government, Civil society, Business and Science.
Programme
Introduction by co-moderator Björn Alfthan, Principal Expert, Polar and Climate Programme, GRID-Arendal
Opening Remarks by HAC co-hosts
- Irma Gurguliani, INC Focal Point for Georgia / Deputy Head, Waste and Chemicals Management Department, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia;
- Renate Paumann, INC Focal Point for Austria / Policy Officer, Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology.
Introduction to the challenge of plastic waste in mountainous regions by Mehrnoosh Azodi, Programme Officer, Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions.
Panel discussion and Q&A
- Kika Bradsford, Director, Acceso PanAm
- Raghav Mahto, Co-Founder, Doko Recyclers
- Gael LE ROUX, CNRS Research Director, University of Toulouse, France
- Mehrnoosh Azodi, Programme Officer, Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions’
- Renate Paumann, INC Focal Point for Austria
- Irma Gurguliaini, INC Focal Point for Georgia
Moderated by Melissa de Kock, Head of Biodiversity, People and Landscapes Unit and Mountain Focal Point, UNEP.
Cover image by Antoine GIRET.