WRF 2020 Ghana Postponed to 2021

WRF2020 postponed

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 […]

Making Natural Resource Governance Fit for the 21st Century – WRF 2019 Meeting Report

  Download PDF   Making Natural Resource Governance Fit for the 21st Century – WRF 2019 Meeting Report  Authors: WRF staff Publication date: 2020 Abstract:  Well over 300 participants coming from some 50 countries and international organizations gathered together for plenary talks, workshops, scientific sessions, and side events at the World Resources Forum (WRF) 2019 from […]

Call for Abstracts WRF 2020 Ghana Open

Accra, 19 December 2019 The Call for Abstracts for World Resources Forum 2020, to be held in Accra, Ghana, from June 23-25 has been opened. The conference is hosted by the Ghanese Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation. Information on topiics and procedures and instructions for authors of the call can be found on […]

Get Here Your Program Update WRF 2019 Geneva

new perspectives on the circular economy

Geneva, 30 July 2019 With less than three months to go before the next World Resources Forum (WRF) 2019 will open its doors, the WRF Secretariat has published the latest WRF 2019 program update today. Highlights of this year’s program include confirmed plenary presentations by Olga Algayerová, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission […]

Get System Right and let Kids get Back to School, Bas de Leeuw says at UNECE

Geneva, 9 May 2019 Current protests in the street ranging from schoolchildren marching for more action on climate change at the one side and the yellow vests movement marching against increasing petrol prices at the other side should be seen as a wake-up call. We may witness the first signs of the social collapse that […]

Registration Open for EIT Raw Materials Cooperation

raw materials governance

St. Gallen, 3 May 2019 The World Resources Forum and its FORAM partners organise a parallel session on stepping up international raw materials cooperation at the EIT Raw Materials Summit, to be held in Berlin, May 21. The EIT Raw Materials Summit session on “Stepping up International Cooperation” will focus on showcasing best practices in […]