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
By Paul Walker, Director, Environmental Security and Sustainability programme The CWC Coalition, coordinated by Green Cross ESS Director Paul Walker, once again put civil society groups front and centre in The Hague as the 21st annual Conference of States Parties (CSP) to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) unfolded the week of November 28th in The … Read more
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
Green Cross International (GCI) and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) co-organized an expert discussion on Monday, July 18, 2016 in Washington DC on global chemical safety and security. Chaired by Ambassador Robert Mikulak, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at CNS and former US Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), … Read more
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
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
Coherent strategies to enhance the security and safety around nuclear weapons and nuclear energy was the focus of a three-day seminar in New Delhi, India organized by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO). Dr. Paul F. Walker, International Director of Green Cross International’s Environmental Security … Read more
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
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
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