Seminar "Green and Resource Efficient Business: Challenges and Practices"
Seminar "Green and Resource Efficient Business: Challenges and Practices" took place on February 28, 2019, IBB Conference Center (11 Gazety “Pravda” Avenue, Minsk, Belarus).
The seminar was organized by the IPM Business School in partnership with the IPM Research Center and BEROC Research Center under the support of the British Embassy in Minsk.
Agenda
Registration and welcoming coffee (9.00–10.00)
Official opening (10.00–10.20)
Ms. Lisa Thumwood, Chargè d’Affaires a.i. of the UK to Belarus
Dzmitry Matusevich, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus
Pavel Daneyko, IPM CEO
Resource efficient and cleaner production (10.20–12.00)
Moderator: Dr. Irina Tochitskaya, Academic Director, IPM Research Center
Circular Economy, Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production
Tatiana Chernyavskaya, International Project Coordinator, Industrial Resource Efficiency Division Department of Environment, UNIDO
British Standard for the Circular Economy
Christina Allen, Lead Programme Manager – Sustainability, British Standard Institution
Circular Economy, Life Cycle Design and the Problem of “Green Growth”
Chris Butters, Researcher, Center for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo
Coffee break (12.00–12.30)
Transition to Green Economy in Belarus (12.30–14.00)
Moderator: Dr. Peter Sachek, UNDP, expert at the Green Economy project, BEROC
Waste and secondary resource management
Ekaterina Botyan, Нead of Waste Management Department, Research Center “Ecology” (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection)
Improving resource efficiency and minimization of waste at Belarusian enterprises
Dr. Sergei Dorozhko, Professor of the Institute of Business of the Belarusian State University
Sources of Financing of Green and Circular Projects
Dr. Nadezhda Batova, Head of the Sector of Ecology of the NASB Institute of Economics, Expert at the Green Economy project, BEROC
More photos are available on the Facebook page of the IPM Research Center.
Contacts:
Viktoria Smalenskaya, coordinator- smalenskaya@research.by
Pavel Berasneu, communication manager - berasneu@research.by