Capacity Building by the three

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NON-FERROUS METALS CONSULTATIVE
FORUM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Capacity Building by the three International
Metal Study Groups
UNCTAD Workshop, Bangkok, September 2001 by Ian
Burrell ILZSG
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What are the Study Groups ?

• Three Intergovernmental Groups related to Metals
• International Copper Study Group
• International Lead and Zinc Study Group
• International Nickel Study Group

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Who are the Members ?
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Who are the Permanent Observers?
World Bank
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Who Else Participates ?
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Consultative Forum on SD

• Joint project by all 3 groups
• 1st Meeting in Brussels, 2000
• Forum for discussion for all stakeholders
• Actions to address concerns relating to the
  production and use of non-ferrous metals

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Working Groups

• 3 ad-hoc Working Groups
• production
• product stewardship
• science.
• Initiate activities related to the
  recommendations identified by the Forum.

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Product Stewardship

• An emerging principle for a new
• generation of pollution prevention
• Focus is on product systems instead
• of production facilities
• Can be voluntary, economic or
• regulatory
• New management tools developing
• risk assessment, risk management etc.

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Product Stewardship Schemes

• Vision statement on objectives
• Set of principles and criteria
• Institutional capacity
• Management systems
• Communication systems.

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Product Stewardship Working Group

• Governance
• Communication
• Recycling
• Research and Knowledge base.

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Governance

• Internal and external auditing
• Include environmental and social
• as well as financial performance
• Adopt corporate codes of conduct
• that define ethical behaviour.
• With governments
• local communities
• other partners

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Communication

• Stakeholder dialogue about products
• Clarify extent of responsibility
• Ensure products risk assessment
• Improve risk management measures
• and inform all relevant parties
• Report promptly on H E hazards
• to officials, employees, customers public.

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Recycling

• Design for the environment
• ease of dismantling
• Collection
• enhance volume collected
• work with users, distributors, manufacturers
• link local and national governments
• Innovation
• promote clean technology
• consider tax incentives

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Research and Knowledge Base

• Disclose data on products SD impact
• involve whole product chain
• Assessment of impact
• safe uses, benefits
• risks, challenges
• Manage impact
• develop solutions for priority SD problems
• introduce a credible auditing process

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ILZSG Work with the Common Fund

• Four projects (3 zinc, 1 lead)
• Aims of projects
• promote metal usage
• promote transfer of technology
• develop new beneficial uses
• Future - include aspects of
• product stewardship?

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The NFMSD Forums Web Site

• For more details please contact
• the NFMSD Forums web site
• www.nfmsd.org