The UN at EU Green Week

The EU Green Week is Europe’s biggest annual conference focusing on environmental policy.  The ‘EU Green Week 2021’ will take place from 31 May to 4 June 2021, and includes an opening event on citizen science for Zero Pollution taking place in Lahti Finland, a virtual high level conference hosted by the European Commission ,and many local partner events happening across Europe. It brings together participants from government, industry, non-governmental organisations, academia and the media to exchange ideas and best practices.

European Green Week 2021 will be dedicated to the ‘zero pollution ambition’. This year’s edition couples the European Green Deal with the recent adoption of the EU Action Plan 'Towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for Air, Water and Soil'. The numerous high-level panels will also explore related policy initiatives included in the EU Green Deal that are essential for EU’s Zero Pollution ambition such as the climate initiatives, the EU Chemicals Strategy, as well as EU initiatives in the fields of energy, industry, mobility, agriculture, fisheries, health and biodiversity

Below you find an overview of

1) UN at EU Green Week Virtual conference

One must register via the website in order to be able to attend.

2) UN at Partner event

1) UN speakers at EU Green Week Virtual Conference

Date: 01/06/2021 - 13:30

High level opening session 

For healthier people and planet – can you imagine a world without pollution?

UN Speakers:

• Veronika Hunt Safrankova, Head of UNEP Brussels Office
• Maria Neira, Director, Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation (WHO)

Link to the session here.

• Date 01/06/2021 - 15:30

Session 1.1 A healthy environment for healthy lives

UN Speaker: 

• Dr Hans Kluge, Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organisation (WHO)
•  Francesca Racioppi , Head of the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health in Bonn

Link to the session here

• Date: 01/06/2021 - 15:30-16:30

Session 1.2. (High level session) Lightening the load - removing environmental pressures to set global biodiversity on a path to recovery in Kunming

UN Speaker:

• Carlos Martin Novella, Deputy Executive Secretary, Basel-Rotterdam-Stockholm Conventions
• Anna Engleryd, Chair, Executive Body, Air Convention  

Link to the session here

• Date: 02/06/2021 - 10:00

Session 2.3 Special Programme: Catalysing progress towards zero pollution ambition by supporting the sound management of chemicals and waste

UN Speaker:

• Monika MacDevette, Chief of Chemicals and Health Branch, Economy Division, UNEP (home of the Special Programme Secretariat)

Link to the programme here

• Date 02/06/2021 - 10:00

Session 2.4 Clean seas with a sustainable blue economy – challenges and opportunities

UN Speaker:

• Manuel Barange, FAO Director of the Fisheries Division, “Blue Transformation for a sustainable blue economy”

Link to the programme here. 

• Date: 02/06/2021 - 11:15  

LIFE awards ceremony

UN Speaker: 

• Dr Janez Potočnik, Co-Chair, United Nations Environmental Programme, International Resource Panel (UNEP IRP); Chair of Forum for the Future of Agriculture (FFA) & Partner at SYSTEMIQ

Link to the programme here

• Date: 02/06/2021 - 14:15 

Session 4.4 Space is the place – monitoring the planet’s health with Copernicus

UN Speaker:

• Stuart Crane, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

See link to the programme here 

• Date 02/06/2021 - 15:30

5.1 Dirty footprints on the magic carpet – the impacts of soil pollution on human health

UN Speaker: 

• Matthias Braubach, Technical Officer Urban Health Equity, World Health Organisation (WHO)

See link to the programme here 

• Date: 02/06/2021 - 16:45 

6.1 Rebuilding greener! Maximising the environmental co-benefits in times of recovery

UN Speaker:

• Steven Stone, Chief, Resources and Markets Branch, Economy Division, UNEP

Link to the programme here.

• Date: 03/06/2021 - 11:15 

8.2 Walking tall and treading light – creating sustainable lifestyles with the environmental footprint tool 

UN Speaker:

• Llorenç Milà i Canals, Head of the Life Cycle Unit, UNEP

Link to the programme here.

• Date: 04/06/2021 - 10:00

Session 12.3 Cancer & environment pollution – how to better protect citizens

UN Speaker: 

• Maria Neira, Director, Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation (WHO) 

Link to the programme here

• Dates 1-4/06/2021 - Exhibition stand

  1-4 June: You are welcome to visit us at Stand Nr 25 (UNEP)

PARTNER EVENT:

IOM-EU Green Week Partner Event 2021: Exploring the Relationship between Air Pollution and Migration in Europe on the 1^st of June 11-12:30. Register here