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NICOLE and Common Forum joint workshop 24 – 25 November 2022 - Call for Abstracts

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NICOLE and Common Forum joint workshop 24 – 25 November 2022
Call for Abstracts
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The joint workshop is supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy (Greece).

Address:

119, Mesogeion Ave., 11526 Athens, Greece

Title:
Applying circularity principles in contaminated land management within the context of the new EU soil strategy

Workshop date:

23 November 2022 - Working groups day
24 and 25 November 2022 - NICOLE & CF joint workshop 

Central theme:

Although land is still subject to severe degradation processes, it is probably the most undervalued element of nature. The EU Green Deal (EGD) is the EU’s policy response to the environmental degradation and the transition to circular economy is one of the corner stones of the EGD. Land and soil are an unquestionably critical parameter of a sustainable Circular Economy as also reflected in the new Circular Economy Action Plan (2020), although even in areas with advanced environmental policy, such as the EU there is no coherent and strategic policy orlegislation dedicated to contaminated soil and land management.
 
Historically contaminated land management has been a national level policy issue, managed differently by the member states, ranging from advanced to non-existent national contaminated land management policy. In the latter case, contaminated land management is mostly based on other EU policy instruments, such as theEnvironmental Liability Directive and the Industrial Emissions Directive.
 
Application of these directives, however, does not effectively satisfy the needs of a robust contaminated land management framework. Greece is one such example of a country without such a framework, where the experience on the subject is still developing. At the same time several mega-projects, brownfield redevelopment, or infrastructure works are already in progress across the country and authorities, services providers and landowners encounter significant decision making, scientific and management challenges on several topics, such as land transfer, remedial targets and excavated soil reuse. As a consequence, significant negative impacts on planning, the quality of projects, environmental benefits and costs occur in practice.
 
It is imperative therefore that a coherent EU-wide policy frame and joint tools for contaminated land management are considered to support all Member States in striving for resource efficiency.

The new EU Soil Strategy introduces the concept of “healthy soil” and sets out a framework and concrete measures for soil protection and restoration to ensure the sustainable use of soil by 2050. In this context newpolicymaking tools regarding, amongst others, excavated soil reuse (“passport for excavated soil”) and the issue of liability transfer (“soil health certificate”) are expected to have a significant role in the new era of contaminated landmanagement and the transition to circular economy in the EU.

This workshop aims to highlight the new opportunities and challenges that the EU Soil Strategy brings and promote feasible solutions in the application of circularity principles to the very demanding and complicated topic of contaminated land management across the EU.

Abstracts (maximum two pages or your alternative/pitch) should be sent by email to Nan Su before September 16th.
Afterwards the organizing committee will evaluate the abstracts and the authors will be notified of acceptance by October 14th.

 
Evaluation criteria will be e.g.
- Being in line with goal/topic of the workshop
- Proven approaches/methods/techniques
- Beneficial for society
- Broad applicability and availability of the technology
- Contribution of the approach/method/technique to the EU objectives

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We hope that you will have a wonderful day and we look forward to seeing you soon.

 
Best regards,
Nan Su

NICOLE Secretariat
Network for Industrially Co-ordinated Sustainable Land Management in Europe



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