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WasteForce ‘Watch the Waste’ Final Conference Message: Keep the Momentum
13 May, 2021
Illegal activities with waste take many forms. The WasteForce Project aims to tackle this by boosting the capacities of environmental enforcement authorities in their efforts to disrupt the illegal waste trade. Under the WasteForce project, an extensive range of tools and resources have been specifically designed to make it easier for policy-makers, regulators, inspectors, investigators and prosecutors to counter waste crime.
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Joint webinar on apps from LIFE SWEAP and WasteForce 19 May 13.00h CET
13 May, 2021
LIFE SWEAP and WasteForce are hosting a joint webinar on the apps developed under the 2 projects. This webinar will introduce and explain the use of the TFS Inspection Data reporting app and the Inspection Reference Tool app.
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WINE Water Circularity Index presentation,10th of May
10 May, 2021
Anabela Rebelo, project manager of WINE will present, this 10th May, the results of IMPEL project Wastewater in Natural Environment (former Integrated Water Approach & Urban Reuse) during the forthcoming meeting of IS Ad-Hoc Task Group on Water Reuse, promoted by the Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission and hosted by the Portuguese Presidency. During this meeting  the Water Circularity Index developed under this IMPEL project, i.e., a tool that allows to measure the transition of installations to a more circular model in terms of water use and in line with the environmental compliance, will be presented.
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Joint webinar: Introduction to Waste Inspections at Ports
10 May, 2021
When: 16 March 2021 at 2:00 – 3:00 pm CET A joint webinar organised by UNU SCYCLE and the Inspectorate of Republic of Slovenia for the Environment and Spatial Planning (IRSOP) will take place on 16 March at 2:00pm CET as an introduction to the online training on waste inspections at ports.
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WasteForce Final Conference 7th May2021
13 Apr, 2021
On the 7th of May, the WasteForce project will have its closing conference. Debates on current trends in waste crime and policies, presentation of the final outcomes of the project WasteForce and discussions on the legacy and the way forward will be facilitated during the day.
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Last WasteForce training: TFS Road Inspections 27-29 April 2021
09 Apr, 2021
The fourth and last training under the umbrella of the WasteForce project, will dive into the topic of road checks of trans-frontier shipments of waste. The German Police Academy DHPol together with UNITAR are organising this online training event as part of the WasteForce consortium. Participation is free for those who will be selected to take part.
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IMPEL National Peer Review Initiative (NPRI) Project. Online Seminar held 30 March 2021
08 Apr, 2021
On 30th March 2021, the closing Seminar of the second phase of National Peer Review Initiative (NPRI) Project has been held. The seminar has been attended by 32 participants from 14 Countries.
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Successful training on Asia – Europe Cooperation Against Waste Crime
17 Mar, 2021
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) as part of the WasteForce project, in partnership with the United Nations University (UNU) SCYCLE program and with support from WasteForce partners, INTERPOL, held a 3 day on-line training workshop on 24-26 February 2021 on the prosecution of waste crime.
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Kick-off meeting Water and Land project Tackling Illegal Groundwater Drilling and Abstraction (TIGDA) – April 26th 2021 10:00 CET – Virtual via Teams
04 Mar, 2021
Groundwater is and remains a valuable resource for the environment and different human activities. Environmental and anthropogenic pressures on this resource include amongst others: climate change (drought, flooding, etc.), (over)abstraction and pollution (point source and diffuse). Water re-use, water buffering and infiltration are some of the possible measures to diminish our requirement for fresh groundwater as well as replenish its storage. Nonetheless groundwater drilling and abstraction will remain necessary for different purposes. Groundwater shortage is no longer an exclusive problem for arid or Mediterranean countries. Recent prolonged drought periods have repeatedly made clear that groundwater supplies have to be carefully managed (abstraction as well as recharge) in all member states.
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EU Green Week 1-4th of June 2021
01 Mar, 2021
The EU Green Week 2021 is scheduled from 1-4th of June 2021. The European Commission is planning to hold the Green Week as a virtual conference and will be dedicated to the Zero Pollution Ambition. At the EU Green Week website you can find more information.
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