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Presentation at GCI Council Meeting, 24.5.2018 by Paul F. Walker, Ph.D. Director, Environmental Security and Sustainability Terminologies used Environmental Security and Sustainability (ESS) The programme is divided in two major

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Presentation at GCI Council Meeting, 24.5.2018 by Paul F. Walker, Ph.D. Director, Environmental Security and Sustainability

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Terminologies used

  • Environmental Security and Sustainability (ESS)
  • The programme is divided in two major components:
  • Security (Legacy of the Cold War): includes weapons demilitarization,

non-proliferation, arms control, disarmament

  • Sustainability (water / pollution): addresses in both preventive and

responsive manner pollution threats to water

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ESS mission

  • The ESS Programme contributes to both prevention and response to

environmental damages from man-made environmental disasters

  • The ESS Programme facilitates processes, builds capacity and helps

resolving contentious issues by helping stakeholders to develop mutually acceptable solutions

  • The ESS Programme works in a spirit of cooperation and not of confrontation
  • To reach these aims, the ESS Programme is divided into two components:
  • Security: Advocates and facilitates the security, non-proliferation, and

safe elimination of weapons of mass destruction, and related materials and systems

  • Sustainability: Addresses in both preventive and responsive manner

pollution of water, land, and air by man-made industrial disasters

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ESS Long Term Targets (1)

Security:

  • Successful abolition of all chemical weapons stockpiles, facilitation of

solutions for buried and sea-dumped chemical weapons

  • Promotion of nuclear and biological weapons arms control and

disarmament

  • Close coordination of work with international arms control regimes and

strengthening of these legal and verification organizations

  • Promotion of understanding of impacts of wars and conflicts as well as of

associated remediation challenges and options, thus leading to improved policies

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ESS Long Term Targets (2)

Sustainability:

  • ESS has a global profile for successful, hands-on resolution and

facilitation of pollution issues and is a partner of interest for governments and UN-agencies (UNEP, FAO, WHO, WB, etc.)

  • GCCH is the Centre of Competence within ESS on pollution threats to

water resources

General:

  • ESS is active in the area of the Former Soviet Union, West-Africa, the

United States, and South-East Asia

  • Broader support from a larger number of donors
  • Expanded GCNO and GCI programme participation
  • Annual income of 10.5 MUSD by 2022
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ESS Strategy (1)

Security:

  • Promote chemical weapons elimination by continued public outreach,

dialogues, hearings, CACs, international CWC Coalition

  • Work towards accelerated nuclear abolition in US and RF to promote

similar efforts in countries of concern including Iran, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea

  • Continue to expand CWC Coalition work into nuclear and/or biological

disarmament

  • Strengthen work on practical solutions in areas such as sea-dumped

chemical weapons, Agent Orange

  • Promote safe disposal of nuclear wastes to prevent proliferation
  • Prevent proliferation of biological expertise and materials
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ESS Strategy (2)

Sustainability:

  • Study emerging issues (e.g. Mercury Convention, lead) and see where

NGOs can provide a relevant contribution → define future business areas

  • Create alliances with partners with complementary skills → Increase

chances when tendering, learn from each other, make better projects

General:

  • Examine and promote cross-programme synergies with Energy, Socmed,

etc.

  • Work closely with governments and UN-agencies (UNEP, FAO, WHO,

WB, OPCW, BWC ISU, IAEA, CTBTO) → stay in line with international trends and practices, increase fundraising chances

  • Work on projects in line with international Conventions (Stockholm, Basel,

Rotterdam, Minamata, CWC, NPT, BWC) and engage GCNOs wherever possible as project partners → create a clear profile of GC in the ESS area

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ESS KPIs

* From 2012, finances include also contributions by the new „Emergency Preparedness“ component.

Milestones 2011-2019 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Financial Turnover () 3880 4150* 7461* 7742* 8250* 8500* 8500* 9000* 9500* Number of project implementing countries 16 18 19 19 19 18 18 18 18 Number of v 7 6 6 6 7 8 9 9 Chemical weapons destruction facilitated (tons) 5619 4920 2989 4089 3671 2000 1500 1000 1000 Chemical weapons destruction facilitated (tons cumulative) 50619 55539 58528 62617 66288 68288 69788 70788 71788

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ESS Status and Forecast

  • Support: Mainly from governments, intergovernmental
  • rganizations, limited foundation support
  • Forecast: Governmental and intergovernmental organizations

will remain key donors. GCCH cash contributions can be used for seeding strategic development. “Pollution” is an emerging global issue now included in new SDGs.

  • Beneficiaries: Global community, countries, local communities,

involved GCNOs and NGOs

  • Activities:
  • Security: Focus on chemical weapons destruction, sea-dumped chemical

weapons, Agent Orange, nuclear demilitarization, medical wastes as a source of proliferation

  • Sustainability: work on main pollution issues as revealed by WWPP

2010 (pesticides, lead, mercury, uranium, toxic wastes), pollution advocacy (WWPP 2012 ff., etc.) [For more details, see next slides.]

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ESS plans 2018 / Security (1)

Chemical Weapons destruction

  • Eleventh meeting of the CWC Coalition planned for December 2018 in

The Hague during the annual Conference of the State Parties.

  • Work on sea-dumped chemical weapons in the Baltic area and Vieques

(Puerto Rico).

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ESS plans 2018 / Security (2)

Bio-security

  • Search funding for regional biomedical waste project in Eastern Europe/

Caucasus

  • Develop projects on safeguarding biomedical wastes in Central Asia,

Caucasus and Africa

  • Promote personnel reliability and responsible research

Nuclear safety

  • Continue seminars on the life-cycle issues of nuclear power including

uranium mining, uranium enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing, mixed oxide (MOX) production, economics of nuclear power, and security and safety of reactors and spent fuel

  • International Task Force on Security & Sustainability to address deeper

cuts in nuclear weapons beyond New START and other related disarmament issues

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ESS plans 2018 / Sustainability (3)

Obsolete pesticides (OP)

  • EC-project (2012-2017): Follow-on project to EECCA-project, emphasis on

elimination of OP stocks and better agricultural practices in FSU area, project in closing phase.

  • DDT2-Project (2011-2016): Terminal evaluation to be finished April 2018.
  • DDT3-Project (2017-2022): Develop national hazardous waste disposal

strategies for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, dispose of 5’000 t of DDT and related wastes. Project started.

  • ECOWAS-Project (2011-2018): Capacity strengthening and technical

assistance for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention in West-

  • Africa. Terminal evaluation ongoing.
  • Support inventory of large stocks of DDT in Tomsk area (Russia).
  • Stockholm NIP update in Ukraine.
  • Development of EA/EMPs in West Africa region.
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ESS plans 2018 / Sustainability (4)

Lead contamination

  • Burkina Faso (2018): Develop project for improved practices on lead

battery recycling

  • Replicate Vietnam lead project in the country

Mercury contamination

  • Burkina Faso + Ghana (2017 - ...): Develop pilot project on better

practices in artisanal gold mining (ASGM)

  • Develop projects on ASGM, mercury inventory, mercury substitution/

medical wastes (Central Asia, SE Asia)

Uranium contamination

  • Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan (2013 - ...): Stabilising of legacy uranium mining

tailings to reduce large-scale environmental, health and economic threats

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ESS plans 2018 / Sustainability (5)

International advocacy, information and publication

– World's Worst Pollution Problems Report 2018: to be published in 2Q/ 2018

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ESS strategic actions 2018

Security:

  • Regional replication of successful projects in the field of medical wastes
  • Continuation of expansion of CWC Coalition work into nuclear and

biological disarmament area

Sustainability:

  • Start of 1-2 projects in the field of mercury (ASGM) in Burkina Faso and

Vietnam

  • Acquire 1-2 obsolete pesticide disposal projects in Eastern Europe/

Caucasus

  • Replication of successful projects on lead battery recycling (ULAB) in

Vietnam and West Africa

  • Continue strategically important pesticide disposal projects in Russia
  • Acquire additional uranium mining tailings projects
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ESS partners

  • Green Cross Russia
  • Global Green USA
  • Green Cross Switzerland
  • Green Cross Belarus
  • Green Cross Ukraine
  • Green Cross Burkina Faso
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ESS Critical Issues

Security:

  • Limited possibilities to contribute cash as co-funding to accelerate project

acquisition

Sustainability:

  • Overly bureaucratic projects with large management overhead
  • Large number of government partners with very different institutional

maturity

  • Project sustainability