Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis Event

“Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis” by the United Nations Environment Programme/GRID-Geneva, taking place in online and in-person, on Tuesday, 26 April 2022, at 15 CEST.

Sand plays a strategic role in delivering ecosystem services, vital infrastructure for economic development, providing livelihoods within communities and maintaining biodiversity. It is linked to all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) either directly or indirectly. Despite the strategic importance of sand, its extraction, sourcing, use, and management remain largely ungoverned in many regions of the world, leading to numerous environmental and social consequences that have been largely overlooked (Peduzzi 2014 ; UNEP 2019).

This event will launch the report “Sand and Sustainability : 10 strategic recommendations to avert a crisis” consolidating the expertise in sand and sustainability from different sectors. Leading experts taking part in this event will bring attention to the impacts from the current state of extraction, use and (mis)management, putting forward recommendations for actions to set the global sand agenda in addressing environmental sustainability needs alongside justice, equity, technical, economic, and political considerations.

The event will take place in a hybrid format.

For in-person participation, kindly use the registration form on Eventbrite: tiny.cc/GEN26Apr22RegIEH

For online participation, please register directly on the Webex platform: tiny.cc/GEN26Apr22Reg

More information: https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/2022-sand-and-sustainability-10-strategic-recommendations-to-avert-a-crisis-report-launch/