International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA) was officially launched.

Venue:
Conference Room B, (NLB), UN HQs, NY

Organizers:
Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Division for Sustainable Development (DESA/DSD)
United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)
Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations

Objectives:
To present the outcomes of �CSD Intersessional Conference on Building Partnerships for Moving towards Zero Waste�h held on 16-18 February in Tokyo, Japan, co-organized by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, UN DESA, and UNCRD to contribute to the deliberations on waste management in CSD-19.
To officially launch the �International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA)�

Programme:
- Opening Remarks by H.E. Mr. Kazuo Kodama, Permanent Representative of Japan
- Opening Statement and Outcomes of �gCSD Intersessional conference on building partnerships for moving towards zero waste�h (PDF) by Mr. Hideki Minamikawa, Vice-Minister of the Environment, Ministry of the Environment, JAPAN
- Statement by Dr. Joan Clos, Undersecretary-General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT
- Introducing the International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA) - Mission and Objectives (PDF) by Mr. Choudhury Rudra Charan Mohanty, Environment Programme Coordinator, UNCRD
- Setting IPLA into Action - Benefits and Opportunities (PDF) by Dr. Prasad Modak, Executive President, Environmental Management Centre, India
- Statement (PDF) by Prof. Sudip K. Rakshit, Vice President for Research, AIT (Global Secretariat of the International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA))

- Closing Remarks by Dr. Tariq Banuri, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, UNDESA
- Official launching of the IPLA

Previous/recent IPLA meetings & Events

IPLA Global Forum
IPLA Global Forum 2015 (Oct 2015, Moscow, Russia)
IPLA Global Forum 2014 of ISWA 2014 Solid Waste World Congress (Sep 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
IPLA Global Forum 2013 (Sep 2013, Boras, Sweden)
IPLA Global Forum 2012 (Sep 2012, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Special Event of ISWA World Congress 2011 (Oct 2011, Daegu, Republic of Korea)
CSD Intersessional Conference on on Building Partnerships for Moving towards Zero Waste (Feb 2011, Tokyo, Japan)

Regional & Sub-Regional Meeting, Workshop, Event
IPLA event - International Dialogue on Solid Waste Management Towards Zero Waste (Mar 2015, Bogota, Colombia)
High-level Interactive Forum on Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation for Knowledge and Capacity Development in Waste Management (Dec 2014, Lagos, Nigeria)
SIDS 2014 Conference - Parallel Event (Off-site): Expanding Waste Management Services of Pacific Island Countries through International PPPs (Sep 2014, Apia, Samoa)
2014 IPLA Europe Forum at IFAT 2014 (May 2014, Munich, Germany)
Workshop on Moving Towards Resource Efficient and Zero Waste Cities for city and local government officials from Semarang City, Indonesia (Oct 2013, Brisbane, Australia)
IPLA Side Events during Rio+20 (Jun 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
International Meeting Bogota Zero Waste: Towards a Culture of Utilization (Feb 2012, Bogota, Colombia)
IPLA Forum of the Private Sector (Feb 2012, Nagoya, Japan)