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Past
and Recent
Projects
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December
2004
- Advice to Madrid
2012 on its environmental
and sustainability plan in relation to
the City's Olympic Bid.
- Scoping study for the Oak
Foundation.
- Evaluation of the work of the Deep
Sea Conservation Coalition in 2004.
- Presentation on political campaigning to
staff at Greenpeace
International.
- Article "IUCN
- A Model for Global Governance?"
November
2004
- Keynote presentation: Review
of UNEP's Draft Work Programme 2006-2007 from
a Civil Society Perspective, at the request
of UNEP's
Major Groups and Stakeholders Branch at
its Regional
Civil Society Forum for Europe, Geneva,
30 November as well as the Forum
for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 20
November.
- Participation in a meeting about the impact
of the aviation sector on climate change at
the request of the Oak
Foundation, Geneva, 26 November.
- Participation in the IUCN
World Conservation Congress on behalf
of Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the
Deep
Sea Conservation Coalition, Bangkok 21-25
November.
- Participation in the IUCN World Conservation
Forum at the request of the Director General
of the IUCN,
Bangkok 17-20 November. Opinion piece about
the 3rd World Conservation Congress published
on One
World.
October
2004
- Facilitation of a strategic planning meeting
in Bangkok for the Food Team of Consumers
International.
- Representation of Greenpeace
International in the Informal Working
Group of the Marine Environment Protection
Committee of the UN International
Maritime Organisation to review the criteria
for the designation of Particularly Sensitive
Sea Areas.
- Press
Conference publicly launching the Deep
Sea Conservation Coalition. Press coverage
by the BBC,
Reuters,
and other major outlets.
- Review
from a Civil Society perspective of the Draft
Work Programme 2006-2007 for the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP)
in preparation for its Regional
Civil Society Meetings towards the 6th
Global Civil Society Forum.
September
2004:
- (Ongoing) Coordination of NGO
Coaliton working to achieve a UN General
Assembly moratorium on bottom trawling on
the high seas.
-Organising a Joint Planning Retreat for the
United Nations-Habitat Water
for Cities Programmes and Green
Cross International.
-Organising an international press briefing
for Mikhail Gorbachev, Barcelona 12 September.
- Participation in the United
Nations World Urban Forum on behalf of
Green Cross International.
August
2004:
- Scoping study for Holcim.
July 2004:
- Media Co-ordination at the Montserrat
Assembly (5-7 July) and the Parliament
of the World's Religions (7-13 July)
- Preparation and facilitation of strategy
and communications meeting for the NGO
coalition campaigning for a moratorium
on bottom trawling on the high seas. Ongoing
coordination activities.
- Advice to Green
Cross International on its campaign for
the adoption of a global convention on the
right to water.
June
2004:
- Coordination and support for the NGO
coalition campaigning for a moratorium
on bottom trawling on the high seas, at the
United Nations Open-Ended Informal Consultative
Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS),
NY 7-11 June.
May 2004:
- Preparation of a draft campaign plan to
promote a UN moratorium on bottom trawling
on the high seas.
- Concept and execution of an Oceana
sponsored page and ad in the 24 May worldwide
edition of the International Herald Tribune,
with a 4-page wrap around for a special Brussels
edition. On the same day, representing Oceana
in Brussels at a meeting of European Fisheries
Ministers to promote measures to protect marine
biodiversity from bottom trawling.
- Logistical and Media Support for the Parliament
of the World's Religions to be held in
Barcelona in July, 2004
- Review of US group Global
Green's Environmental Leadership Awards,
and recommendations for further development.
- Article on the need to control the advertisement
industry as a driver of unsustainable consumption
patterns, in Swiss publication La
Revue Durable, Issue 10, May.
April 2004:
- Representation of Green Cross International
at the 12th meeting of the UN
Commission on Sustainable Development.
- Article on the evolution of environmental
performance in the corporate sector, in the
premier edition of "The
Optimist" Spring 2004.
- Attendance at a meeting convened by the
Pew
Charitable Trusts on international marine
conservation issues, Madrid 22-23 April.
- Representing Oceana at the OECD
Workshop on IUU Fishing 19-20 April, Paris.
Varda Group / Oceana background
paper published by the OECD.
March 2004:
- Communications strategy and political analysis
for Green
Cross International's campaign on the
right to access to water.
- Representing Greenpeace at the International
Maritime Organisation's Marine Environment
Protection Committee (IMO-MEPC)
meeting, London.
- Conducting the recruitment process for a
European Political Advisor for Oceana.
In addition, preparation of a briefing
paper for the OECD workshop on illegal
fishing, based on the more detailed report
written in November.
- Strategic advice and political support to
the Environment Investigation Agency in preparation
for the Extraordinary
Meeting of the Parties
to the UN Montreal Protocol on the Protection
of the Ozone Layer.
- Lecture "Corporations & NGOs: Respective
Approaches" at Superior
School of Engineering, University of Sevilla,
Spain, 22 March.
- Keynote speech on the opening night of the
'Almost Real' conference on Art for Social
Change, Utrecht, 10 March, sponsored by the
European
Cultural Foundation.
- Facilitation of Greenpeace disarmament campaign
meeting, and drafting of project proposals.
February
2004:
- Presentation to the first steering group
meeting of the Countdown
2010 project on 2 February.
- Secretariat functions and substantive coordination
on behalf of Green Cross International at
Mikhail Gorbachev's
Earth Dialogues in Barcelona, 5-6 February.
- Background analysis and planning for the
establishment of a new charitable foundation
in France at the request of its founders.
- Technical Support to Greenpeace-Nordic's
campaign in support of designating the Baltic
Sea as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area under
the International Maritime Organisation's
Marpol Convention.
January
2004:
- Strategic and Communications advice to IUCN
on its "Countdown
2010" project aimed at halting biodiversity
loss.
- Leading the process to develop a disarmament
project for Greenpeace
International.
- Preparation for and attendance at the Meeting
of the Committee on Social Affairs and the
Environment of the ACP-EU Joint
Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, on
behalf of the Environmental
Investigation Agency.
- Presentation and participation, Program
Development Symposium for the Desert
Development Foundation, Environmental
Reaserch Laboratory, Tuscon Arizona
- Follow-up to Holcim
Sustainability Dialogue
- Strategic advice to Oceana
- Ongoing support for Green Cross International
and the organisers of The
Earth Dialogues in Barcelona. |
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