Technical meeting to prepare for the on-site training in Tajikistan and to enhance capacity for governance and policy-making on tailings safety in Central Asia, 23 April 2021
The bigger picture: Strengthening governance and policy-making for mine tailings safety and disaster risk reduction
Ms. Franziska Hirsch, Secretary, UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention UNECE Industrial Overall vision of the Industrial Accidents Convention until 2030: Accidents Convention, “Significantly increase industrial safety and reduce the risk of technological disasters by the Sendai Framework ensuring its full implementation, its wide for DRR and the SDGs recognition as a legal instrument for risk reduction under the Sendai Framework and its contribution to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals” Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction & Industrial Accidents Convention Priorities for Action
“Initially developed for the European region …, the approaches and experience [under the Industial Accidents Convention] offer insights to countries pursuing Sendai Framework commitments in technological disaster risk management” Sendai Industrial Accidents Framework Convention
Expected outcome: Overall vision: • Substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the • Significantly increase industrial safety and reduce economic, physical, social, cultural and the risk of technological disasters by ensuring its environmental assets of persons, businesses, full implementation communities and countries. Goal: Goal: • Prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk • Safely manage hazardous activities - installations through the implementation of integrated holding chemical substances, such as TMFs and inclusive economic, structural, legal, • Reduce technological disaster risk, incl. such risks ….educational, environmental, technological, political and institutional exacerbated by climate change (NaTech events), measures that prevent and reduce hazard urbanization, etc. exposure and vulnerability to disaster, increase • Mitigate exposure of people, the environment, preparedness for response and recovery, infrastructure; reduce vulnerabilities and thus strengthen resilience. • Strengthen resilience Understanding Disaster Risk - Mapping TMF
Hazard map of TMFs of Hazard map of TMFs of Tajikistan Kazakhstan Understanding Disaster Risk -
Mapping of TMFs in Uzbekistan
Ministry State Committee of Emergency of Ecology Situations
Inventory of TMFs Incl. TMFs with a transboundary effect
Mapping of TMFs Strenghtening Tajikistan IIWG Kazakhstan IIWG disaster risk Ecology Ministry of Committee Energy and Minister of MES Energy governance State Oversight Water Resources Ministry of Service Ecology, Understanding disaster risk is a Committee of Geology and prerequisite for disaster risk governance Emergency Situations Natural and Civil Defence Working across institutions and actors Resources for intersectoral cooperation Safe water & Preventing sanitation Inter-institutional Tailings Accidental working group Safety Water (IIWG) pollution
Greater industrial safety Strenghtening disaster risk National and governance local disaster Sendai risk reduction Framework • Multi-hazard DRR strategies that strategies address all risks, including DRR technological (industrial/chemical), (Target E) natural, environmental, biological and other hazards • Involve relevant national authorities, including those in charge of DRR, National Self-assessments Convention emergency coordination, internal Transboundary Environmental affairs, state inspections, and Action Plans Industrial Performance environmental protection, etc. Accidents reviews • Make reference, in national DRR strategies to existing legal agreements and commitments to implement them, incl. Industrial Accidents Convention, National SAs and Aps, EPRs, …. Thank you for your attention
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