3W Expo and Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
Hermann Koller in discussion with conference delegates Organised by ISWA's Silver Member TechnoBiz Communications Co., Ltd, an international conference and exhibition on water, wastewater and waste treatment – therefore titled as 3W Expo - took place from 29 to 31 January 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. This event, supported by the Thai Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and by the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau, attracted 111 exhibitors from 15 different countries. Almost 500 delegates participated in the conference, where more than 80 different 3W-topics were presented and discussed. ISWA's Managing Director Hermann Koller gave a keynote on Global Waste Management Perspectives and also lectured an opening speech for the session on Electric and Electronic Waste Recycling. Other sessions during this four-day conference were focusing on Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Technology; Electronic Waste Management; Membrane, Desalination and Water Treatment; Air Pollution and Odour Control; Stormwater and Crisis Management; Filtration and Separation; Municipal Solid Waste Management; Mechanical and Biological Treatment; Reuse & Zero Discharge; Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management. WEBINAR ON THE WORLD BANK GROUP'S PILOT AUCTION FACILITY One of ISWA's prominent co-operation partners is the World Bank Group, the largest anti-poverty institution which is present in over 100 developing and transitioning countries, providing consultancy, loans and other customized services. In March 2015 ISWA has been hosting a live webinar which featured the Pilot Auction Facility (PAF) for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation, recently launched by the World Bank Group. The Pilot Auction Facility is an experimental and innovative development, offering put options to guarantee a minimum price on carbon credits. This floor price guarantee is designed to be higher than today's carbon credit market price. The identification of the firms getting the put option, and the level of price guarantee will be competitively determined via an auction. The PAF's first auction is being planned for mid-2015 and will support methane mitigation projects in developing countries. Specifically, this auction will target solid waste management gas to energy and flaring projects as well as waste water treatment and agricultural waste management (including biogas) projects. By using this innovative approach the Facility will pilot a scalable model for larger flows of future climate finance. Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States have publicly pledged funding and others are expected to join them. ISWA Members were invited to join the live-streamed webinar and could provide their contributions. An introduction of the Facility and its first auction, provided by the World Bank's PAF team, was followed by an answer and questions session. The webinar was recorded and is available on www.iswa.org together with two introductory videos prepared by the World Bank Group, explaining the PAF's operating mechanism in a simple way. ISWA Calendar 2015 April Working Group Meeting on Healthcare Waste 14-15 April 2015 Turkey, Istanbul Kata Tisza ktisza@iswa.org ISWA Beacon Conference - Waste to Energy Facilities in Emerging and Developing Economies: Challenges and Option 16-17 April 2015 Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre Raelyn Rachele Chwee raelyn@wmam.org Working Group Meeting Energy Recovery 16-17 April 2015 Austria, Vienna Daniel Purchase dpurchase@iswa.org Working Group Meeting Legal Issues 23-24 April 2015 Germany, Hamburg Gerfried Habenicht ghabenicht@iswa.org May Working Group Meeting on Recycling and Waste Minimisation 7-8 May 2015 United Kingdom, London Gerfried Habenicht ghabenicht@iswa.org Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery from Waste (C-VORR) Workshop 8 May 2015 United Kingdom, London Kata Tisza ktisza@iswa.org ISWA Study Tour on Sorting Plants 11-13 May 2015 United Kingdom, London Kim Winternitz kwinternitz@iswa.org ISWA Beacon Conference on Waste Minimisation and Recycling 27-29 May 2015 Austria, Vienna Gerfried Habenicht ghabenicht@iswa.org June Task Force Resource Management Workshop 8-9 June 2015 France, Paris Kata Tisza ktisza@iswa.org STC Meeting 9 June 2015 France, Paris Jiao Tang jtang@iswa.org ISWA Study Tour on Waste-to-Energy 21 June - 1 July 2015 Austria, Vienna Julia Schönherr jschoenherr@iswa.org Board Meeting 26 June 2015 United Kingdom, London Hermann Koller hkoller@iswa.org August ISWA Beacon Conference: 3rd International Conference on Final Sinks 23-26 August 2015 Taiwan, Taipei Liana Liang info@icfs2015.org.tw Course on Hazardous Waste Management 31 August – 11 September 2015 Netherlands, Delft Elisabeth Herbeck e.herbeck@unido.org September ISWA General Assembly 6 September 2015 Belgium, Antwerp Kim Winternitz kwinternitz@iswa.org ISWA World Congress 7-9 September 2015 Belgium, Antwerp Kim Winternitz kwinternitz@iswa.org October ISWA Beacon Conference: Secondary Resources from Waste: Sorting and Treatment Techniques 14-15 October 2015 Germany, Hamburg Kim Winternitz kwinternitz@iswa.org Working Group Meeting Energy Recovery 29-30 October 2015 Germany, Berlin Daniel Purchase dpurchase@iswa.org November ISWA Beacon Conference on Waste-to-Energy 18-19 November 2015 Sweden, Malmö Jakob Sahlén jakob.sahlen@avfallsverige.se December Board Meeting 12 December 2015 France, Paris Hermann Koller hkoller@iswa.org More Waste Management World Articles Waste Management World Issue Archives