Background

Welcome to Vienna Discussion Forum 2024: Why Waste It? Unlocking opportunities for environmental protection and gender equality

The Vienna Discussion Forum 2024 will highlight gaps, challenges, and recommendations on the gendered aspects of waste trafficking, and waste management, as well as the opportunities that sustainable supply chains and the circular economy represent for women’s inclusion and women’s empowerment. Informed by the work of UNIDO and UNODC, among others, the event aims to find practical and innovative solutions to societal and systemic challenges by providing an understanding of the gendered dimensions of legal and illegal waste management and by showcasing good practices in the field.

Vienna Discussion Forum 2024 Organizer

UNIDO, UNODC, and the Permanent Missions of Sweden, Finland and Norway in Vienna

Agenda

Opening Remarks

• Recorded video message from H.E. Ms. Paulina Brandberg, Swedish Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life
• Gerd Müller, Director-General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
• Recorded video message from Ghada Waly, Director-General/ Executive Director of the United Nations Office at Vienna/ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Maurice Makoloo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Kenya

• Joana Amican, a beneficiary of the project Implementation of PCB Management Programs for Electric Cooperatives and Safe e-wastes Management, UNIDO
• Tanya Wyatt, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, UNODC
• Alpaslan Deliloglu, CEO & Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Austria
• Kari Herlevi, Programme Director, SITRA International Programmes
• Guri Bang, professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Previous conferences Details

The Vienna Discussion Forum is an annual event to discuss gender equality and the empowerment of women in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.

More Details on the 2023 Forum can be found here and here.

Click here, to Found More  About  the 2022 Forum can be found

More Details on the 2021 Forum can be found here and here.

Details on the 2020 Forum can be found here and here.

Details on the inaugural 2019 Forum can be found here and here.

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