Key Initiatives and Activities, 1993-2005
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Date
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Place
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Highlights
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1993
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Kremlin,
Moscow
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First
meetings with President Yeltsin’s Environmental Counsellor,
Prof. Alexey Yablokov |
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1993
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Victoria
& Albert Museum, London
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Official
launch of LIRE by Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former British
Ambassador to the USSR and the Russian Federation
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1993-2004
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EECCA
& London
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Environment
for Europe
(EfE), continuing participation at EfE conferences and workshops,
and Healthy Planet Forum
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1994
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Suzdal,
Russian Federation
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First
Russian-Western European conference on NGO cooperation, funded by
Tacis
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1994
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Royal
Geographical Society, London
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Alexey
Yablokov lecture, chaired by David Bellamy
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1994
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House
of Commons, London
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Expert
witness, David Bellamy; Specialist Advisor, John Massey Stewart:
House Select Environment Committee Enquiry into Environmental
Problems of Eastern Europe & NIS
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1994
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Tbilisi,
Georgia
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Organisation
with Ecotourism Ltd. (Duncan Fisher) of first Black Sea
Environment Ministers Conference, funded by Tacis
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1994
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Sakha
Republic
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Facilitated
HRH Prince Philip’s official opening WWF-funded national parks
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1995
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Royal
Geographical Society, London
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Altai
environment workshop, focusing on specific problems, including
spent rocket fuel
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1995
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London
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Facilitated
interviews with leading Russian environmentalists on BBC Russian
Service
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1995-98
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Imperial
College London and UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge ***
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Annual
Environmental Law and Policy Programme for EECCA
governments & NGOs. Funded by Tacis, DFID, Shell, Leventis
Foundation and RTZ
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1996
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Luzhniki
Stadium, Moscow
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Presentation
by JMS at "Healthy Children in a Healthy World" festival
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1997-99
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EECCA
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Project
facilitation in Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.
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2000
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London
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Organised
and managed UK programme for visiting representatives of Siberian
indigenous peoples, funded by the British Council
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2001
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Moscow
& St Petersburg
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Project
development with RAIPON, Moscow School of Social and Economic
Science, St Petersburg City Council
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2002
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Miass,
Russian Federation
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Keynote
speaker at Human Rights & Ecology conference, University of
Cheliabinsk
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2003
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Moscow
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Devised
and advised conference on indigenous peoples within civil society,
with the Gorbachev Foundation and RAIPON
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2003
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St.
Petersburg
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Tercentenary
Year environmental newspaper competition for city’s schools:
joint project with Field Studies Council and ASEKO as part of
official UK programme. Organised prize-winner visits to London,
coverage by the Guardian newspaper and interviews on BC Russian
Service. Funded by the British Council, Field Studies Council and
ASEKO
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2003
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Moscow
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Keynote
speaker at Tacis workshop with State Duma on harmonising Russian
environmental law with European Directives
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2004
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Moscow
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Address
to Free Economic Society on CSR in workplace health, safety &
environment
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2004
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Moscow
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With
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS) Institute of
Occupational Health, the ILO and EHC: developing approaches to
health, environment & safety management in the Russian
workplace for project submission
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2004
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Moscow
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Keynote
speaker at International Conference, “Industry, Technology,
Environment”, Moscow State University of Technology, 15-17
September
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2004 onwards
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EECCA
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Promotion
of SME partnerships, together with St James’s Research. and
other enterprises in Armenia, Georgia and the Russian Federation.
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Tacis (in 1997) described this programme as the most
effective it had funded under its Environmental Facility, resulting in
new water regulation in Georgia, trans-boundary agreements between
Moldova and the Ukraine, and protected area legislation in the Russian
Federation. Some seventy student/delegates from
Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova,
Mongolia, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan as
well as Nigeria participated in the Programme, expressing considerable
satisfaction with the academic content and organisation.
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