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STAFF CHANGES AT ISWA GENERAL SECRETARIAT
Helena Bergman left ISWA GS at the end of April to move to new professional activities. ISWA thanks Helena for her work in ISWA over the years!
Maie Knoebl, ISWA membership manager, has also left her position to take up a new role. ISWA thanks Maie for her work and especially for her efforts in connection with the two moves of the ISWA office!
Gerfried Habenicht joined the ISWA GS team in April 2010. With several years of experience in the waste management business, both in the fields of PR /communications and as a legal advisor, he now acts as Communications Manager for ISWA. Welcome on board!
ISWA WHITE PAPER ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WASTE
ISWA is very pleased to introduce its updated White Paper on Climate Change and Waste Management. The White Paper was issued at the Copenhagen Conference on Waste and Climate Change in December 2009, where more than 250 participants discussed this issue. The results of the White Paper show that sustainable and efficient waste management can lead to net saving of greenhouse gases.
The White Paper has been reprinted with some amendments and updates. You can download the actual version from the ISWA homepage.
ISWA PARTICIPATES AT THE UN commission ON sustainable DEVELOPMENT
The UN Commission on Sustainable Development works with multi-year programmes and cycles. Each cycle focuses on selected thematic clusters and one of the four thematic clusters for 2010/2011 is waste management. In each cycle, the thematic clusters of issues are addressed in an integrated manner, taking into account the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
In preparation of the next major meeting CSD-18, ISWA President, Dr Atilio Savino, has been participating and speaking at an Intersessional Meeting: International Consultative Meeting on Expanding Waste Management Services in Developing Countries. The meeting took place in Tokyo, Japan, on 18-19 March 2010. President Savino spoke about 'best cases from the view of private operating companies'.
CSD-18 took place in New York on 3-14 May 2010. It provided a timely and valuable opportunity to review and analyse the challenges and constraints impeding the implementation of the sustainable development agenda in the area of waste management and the ten-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns. This review will serve as the basis for mobilizing political will for identifying concrete policy actions and measures, as well as partnerships to accelerate the implementation.
