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OECD Global
Forum on Environment: Sustainable Materials Management
25-27
October 2010
2010
Mechelen,
Belgium
This Forum organised by the OECD and will be
hosted by the Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM).
The
main objectives
- To
draw conclusions from the results of three policy-oriented reports (on
target setting, policy principles, and policy instruments), as well as
from the results of four case studies (on aluminium, critical metals,
fibres, plastics); the
EU’ countries
- To
learn from new examples of “innovative SMM (Sustainable
Materials Management) practices” from the private sector,
governments and NGOs (particularly those involving
“systems” innovations);
- To
link the discussions to the OECD Green Growth Strategy and
implementation of the OECD Council Recommendation on Resource
Productivity [C(2008)40] and the 2008 G8 Kobe 3R Action Plan; and
- To
discuss possible “policies for implementing SMM”
and to delineate the form of actions to be taken (Council
Recommendation, report on policy options, compilation of best
practices, etc.).
Target
audience
Participation is open to OECD countries, to delegates from invited
non-member economies and to other invited experts. The UN Resource
Panel, as well as key representatives from the business and NGO
communities, will be invited, and will be expected to play key roles.
For more information please visit:
http://www.oecd.org/document/29/0,3343,en_2649_34395_44403037_1_1_1_37465,00.html
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