The WRF23 Conference Report is now available!
Rethink the value of resources if we are to achieve wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries. This one of the main messages coming out of the WRF23 Conference Report, which is now available online. As the result of inputs from over 75 international organisations, 120 researchers and 150 speakers, the WRF23 Report highlights key policy, business […]
Close the gap while closing the loop? WRF and IRP webinar on how to manage a fair, global circular economy transition
On June 23rd, 15.00 – 16.30 CEST, the World Resources Forum and the International Resource Panel will co-host an open webinar with leading international experts on Global North-South relations for a fair circular economy transition. With the global shift to a circular economy, new material and financial flows will progressively disrupt international economic relations […]
Towards a just and sustainable global green transition: key takeaways from WRF2021 for COP26
With the attention of the global community directed towards the results of the ongoing 26th COP UN Climate Change Conference, momentum for the green transition appears to be at its highest. Following up on a series of announcements made over the past decade—under the declared objective to keep global temperature rise within 1.5 degrees—political leaders […]
A Green Deal for Sustainable Resources: World Resources Forum (WRF) 2021 Hybrid Conference
Accra & St. Gallen, 24 March 2021: In 2020, Ghana and Switzerland announced the first World Resources Forum to be held on African soil, which unfortunately had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today we are excited to communicate the re-launch of this initiative with an innovative format. For three days, participants from […]
Resources and Circular Economy Conference to be held in Ghana
St. Gallen/Accra/Online, 6 July 2020 The WRF Secretariat conducted three successful conference calls with WRF2020 partners from June 23-25. At these dates originally WRF 2020 Ghana would have taken place, hosted by the Ghanaian Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference had to be rescheduled. The conference […]
WRF 2020 Ghana Postponed to 2021
St. Gallen, 20 March 2020 The WRF Secretariat has announced that the upcoming World Resources Forum, Accra, Ghana originally to be held from 23-25 June 2020, will be rescheduled to 2021. The new date will be announced after further consultations. The World Resources Forum team is monitoring the developments with regard to the coronavirus pandemic […]
WRF 2019 Meeting Report on Resource Governance Published
St. Gallen, 20 March 2020 The WRF Secretariat has published the meeting report of World Resources Forum 2019. WRF 2019 was held in Geneva from 23-24 October 2019. The annual conference and its back-to-back events were attended by well over 300 participants coming from some 50 countries and international organisations, including the United Nations, European […]
About WRF and Coronavirus
St. Gallen, 16 March 2020 The World Resources Forum team is monitoring the developments with regard to the coronavirus pandemic with great concern. Foremost the hearts of the team go out to the family, relatives and close friends of victims and patients worldwide, to the health care workers and authorities in all affected countries and […]
Environment Minister Ghana Announces Natural Resources Initiatives
Accra, 5 March 2020 The sustainable use of natural resources will be at the heart of debates at the first World Resources Forum to be held in Africa (WRF2020), which has today been officially announced by the Honourable Minister H.E. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng at the Swiss Embassy in Accra. WRF2020 will be hosted by the Ministry […]
WRF 2019 Calls for Ambitious International Rules for Resources Management
Geneva, 24 October 2019 Participants of the World Resources Forum 2019 are calling for ambitious international rules for mineral resources management. A low-carbon and resource efficient economy requires an uptake in technologies such as electric vehicles, renewable energy, and digitalization. Without improved governance it will be impossible to ensure proper provision of the resources needed. […]