Environmental Security and Sustainability

Click here for the full text of the PNND article about this event Green Cross International joined UNFOLD ZERO and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) in hosting a consultation of arms control experts and disarmament activists discussing how to reduce nuclear risks and support nuclear disarmament in the new political environment. The meeting, … Read more GCI, PNND, UNFOLD ZERO hold consultations on nuclear disarmament

On Tuesday, 26 July, Green Cross International and the Geneva Environment Network came together before a packed audience to offer expert perspectives on the ongoing effort to ban and eliminate chemical weapons worldwide. Green Cross Executive Director Adam Koniuszewski and Henrik Slotte, Chief of UNEP’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, opened the event by placing … Read more Chemical Weapons Abolition: Are we there yet?

On the morning of 18 April, Green Cross International hosted a dialogue with international law experts on nuclear disarmament at its offices in Geneva. The event was a joint initiative with Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA). Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator of PNND, opened … Read more Legal tools for nuclear disarmament – a dialogue with international law experts

The Fissile Materials Working Group received an NGO Leadership Award at the 2016 Nuclear Security Awards Luncheon on 31 March, organized by the Nuclear Industry Summit. Paul Walker, Green Cross International’s Environmental Security and Sustainability Director, was one of the group’s founders in 2009 and is still on its Steering Committee today. The award was … Read more Fissile Materials Working Group Receives NGO Leadership Award

The Green Cross Environmental Security and Sustainability (ESS) Programme organized and chaired a seminar on global chemical safety and security in Washington DC on Wednesday, 10 February 2016. In the face of massive accidents and disasters such as the one that struck Tianjin, China in August 2015, there is a clear need for national and … Read more Green Cross leads Chemical Safety and Security talk in Washington

Photo: Stefan Baumgartner, RGB PHOTO SWITZERLAND On 30 January, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan continued a tour (which also included an event in Washington, D.C. with Green Cross on 26 January) taking place a month before the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe … Read more Naoto Kan speaks at Green Cross event in Zurich

Former Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan joined Green Cross at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on 26 January to tell the audience there that, five years later, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima has yet to be resolved. “The accident is still unfolding,” he said, as radioactive material continues to seep into surrounding groundwater … Read more Fukushima disaster still ongoing, says Naoto Kan