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All projectsDecember 2024
"What Went Wrong in Busan? What Next?", an op-ed with proposals to bring the UN Plastics negotiations back on track, published by the International Institute on Sustainable Development (IISD)
December 2024
Keynote talk on strategic communications and campaigning at the Amsterdam School for International Business
November 2024
Participation in the Fifth Session of UN Plastics Treaty Negotiations in Busan, Republic of Korea
Read Rémi's oped "What can we Expect in Busan?", written in collaboration with Lucien Chabason and published by IDDRI
October 2024
Participation in Biodiversity COP16 in Cali, Colombia on behalf of Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean
October 2024
Publication of our new paper for next year’s Third UN Ocean Conference: Advancing the Protection Principle
October 2024
Facilitating the America's Cup Blue Economy Forum on behalf of the Port of Barcelona
September 2024
Facilitation of the Greenpeace Research Laboratory annual planning meeting
September 2024
Guest speaker at the opening of the Nice Climate Summit (WATCH Rémi between 17’50 and 37’40)
September 2024
Drafting on behalf of PR3, the Global Alliance to Advance Reuse, comments on the non-paper of the Chair of the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations
June 2025
Attending the Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice on behalf of our flagship project Let's Be Nice to the Ocean.
April 2025
Guest article in Impact, the magazine of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (FPA2)
April 2025
Guest speaker at Institut Français' ocean round table, Madrid
March 2025
Oped in La Tribune du Dimanche (France), co-signed by our Let's Be Nice the Ocean partners: "Et si la protection de l'océan devenait la règle, et non plus l'exception?"
March 2025
Invited participant at the SOS Ocean conference in Paris
March 2025
Guest participant at the Monaco Blue Initiative annual meeting
February 2025
Organization and facilitation of a webinar for the associated stakeholders network of Let's Be Nice to the Ocean
January 2025
UN Ocean Conference 2025 Information Meeting, jointly with the Ocean & Climate Platform and with the participation of the Governments of France and Costa Rica
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The Varda group has vast experience across a wide range of issues, including climate change, marine biodiversity, fisheries conservation, the Arctic and Antarctic, maritime policy, nuclear safety, security, and arms control, toxic pollution and clean production, fresh water management and sanitation, sustainable consumption, tobacco control, international governance, international trade, access to information and transparency.
