1st Meeting, 15th Session of the Expert Group on Resource Management

The UNECE Resource Management Week 2024, including the 15th session
of the Expert Group on Resource Management (EGRM-15), held at
the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 22-26 April 2024.

Leaders, experts, and stakeholders in resource management will gather to
discuss sustainable development challenges and opportunities. Our
theme, “Assuring sustainability in resource management”, will focus on the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) and the United Nations Resource Management System (UNRMS) and their pivotal role in resource management worldwide. 

Agenda highlights:

• Seminars, Workshops, and Short Courses: Focusing on the UNFC and UNRMS as catalysts for transforming raw materials management.
• Minerals for the Energy Transition: Highlighting the work of the UN Working Group on Transforming Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development.
• Responsible Resource Management: The development and deployment of UNRMS.
• Navigating the Future: Exploring various applications of UNFC.
• Building capacity: International Centres of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management.
• Empowering Sustainability: Discussing global initiatives and case studies.
• Lunchtime lectures: Professor Peter Hopkinson,
  Co-Director, Exeter Centre for the Circular Economy, Exeter University,
  and Professor Markus Zils, Circular Economy and Management Science,
  University of Exeter Business School, UK, on Circular Data (23 April)
  and Sarah Gordon, CEO, Satarla on The beauty of interconnected natural resource ecosystems, with a focus on ESG issues (25 April).

Agenda item 1: Adoption of agenda (ECE/ENERGY/GE.3/2024/1)

• Chair: Erika Ingvald, Vice-Chair, EGRM
• Charlotte Griffiths, Secretary, Expert Group on Resource Management

Agenda item 2: Opening remarks

• Reshaping Resource Management – Embracing Challenges, Prospects, and Innovative Solutions, Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, UNECE
• Erika Ingvald, Vice-Chair, EGRM
• Remembering Tom Schneider, Minute’s Silence

Agenda item 4: Energizing sustainability: Committee on Sustainable Energy’s priorities and resource management matters

• Iva Brkic, Secretary, Committee on Sustainable Energy, UNECE

Agenda item 3: Seminar: UNFC and UNRMS: A catalyst for transforming raw materials management in the UNECE region and beyond – Deploying UNFC in Europe and beyond to assure information for sustainable resource management

• Dario Liguti, Director, Sustainable Energy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
• Milan Grohol, Policy Officer, Energy Intensive Industries and Raw Materials, DG GROW, European Commission
• Julie Hollis, Secretary General, EuroGeoSurveys / Horizon Europe (HE) Project; “Geological Service for Europe (GSEU)”
• Pascal Leroy, Director General, WEEE Forum / Horizon Europe (HE) Project; “Future Availability of Secondary Raw Material (FutuRaM)”

UNFC Seminar Session 1: Implementation of UNFC in support of the CRM Act 360: Navigating Excellence, Collaboration, and Innovation

• Critical Raw Material (CRM) Act and UNFC provisions – Milan Grohol, Policy Officer, Energy Intensive Industries and Raw Materials, DG GROW, European Commission 
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) – Slavko Solar, Economic Affairs Officer, Sustainable Energy Division, UNECE
• Geological Service for Europe (GSEU) – Guillaume Bertrand, Senior Geologist, French Geological Survey (BRGM)
• FutuRaM – Soraya Heuss-Aßbichler, Professor, University of Munich (LMU)
• EU International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource management (ICE SRM) and future directions – Meta Dobnikar, Head of Unit, Geological Survey of Slovenia (GeoZS)