Two workshops on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) Prioritisation are going to be held in Chisinau, Moldova on 6 October, and in Kiev, Ukraine on 7 October. The workshops are organised by UNEP in the framework of the ‘Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood’ programme (EaP GREEN). For the Moldova one, UNEP has partnered with the Agency of Public Procurement of the Republic of Moldova, whereas for the second workshop UNEP’s partner is the State Environmental Agency of Ukraine.

The objective of the national prioritisation workshops is to select prioritised groups of products and services that the Market Readiness Analysis activity of UNEP Approach to SPP will focus on. In particular, the prioritisation workshop aims at: i) presenting and discussing the SPP project progress; ii) presenting to the Steering Committee members and relevant stakeholders the UNEP Approach for SPP policy development and implementation in particular with respect to Prioritisation; iii) formally agreeing on the selected prioritised groups of products and services.

More information: rie.tsutsumi@unep.org

On 28 October, in Geneva, UNEP will hold a side event to the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy (CEP-20) entitle “Outcome of the First United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and its impactfor UNEP’s work in the European region”. This side event will provide insights into the outcome of the First United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and its impact for UNEP’s work in the European region, as well as provide updates on the implementation of the UNEA decisions.

The event will be open to member States and other stakeholders, and UNEP will seek their views and comments, including assessment of the first UNEA, lessons learned, planning with regard to UNEA-2, and relevance to the deliberations of the CEP meeting and EfE process. Jan Dusik, UNEP Regional Director, will speak at the event.

More information: wondwosen.asnake@unep.org

The Alpine Space Programme C3-Alps project closing conference will take place on 14 October in Vienna, Austria. The conference is co-funded by the Alpine Space Programme of the EU, organized by the Umweltbundesamt, UNEP Vienna – Regional Office for Europe, and the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns, and implemented by the C3-Alps partnership.

The conference will bring together representatives from regions, municipalities and cities, public administration officers, policy makers, practitioners, and experts from national to local level. It is designed to facilitate the direct exchange of knowledge and experiences from peer to peer, from region to region, and across governance levels.

More information here or email harald.egerer@unvienna.org