Green and Sustainable Remediation Platform

International SURF Groups and Partners- Status of countries 12017/05/25

1.SuRF- Italy : Claudio Albano （CA） provided an update on behalf of SuRF-Italy. He confirmed that they are still working on finalising the technical framework to address the regulators comments. CA confirmed that much of his time is currently supporting the upcoming NICOLE Workshop titled “Creating Value Through Sustainable Land and Asset Management”. In addition, he is presenting at the national workshop organised by RECONNET in Rome in April where he will be presenting on SuRF Italy and ISRA, in coordination with Italian EPA （ISPRA）. 2.SuRF Canada : Francois Beaudoin （FB） provided an update on behalf of SuRF-Canada. FB confirmed that most of their efforts are currently going into Americana conference in Montreal in March 2017 . There will be a SuRF Canada session, a presentation by FB ＆ Barbara Maco （BM） on international collaboration and ISRA and a presentation on the work that SuRF Canada and SuRF US are working on collaboratively on the stakeholder engagement roadmap. SuRF Canada are looking at improving their website and providing more links to useful documents on other SuRFs websites. They will particularly focus on globally consistent guidance. 3.SuRF-UK : Jonathan Smith （JS） provided an update on SuRF-UK. He confirmed that the main activities have been conference attendance and outreach. JS confirmed that the Special Issue publication on Sustainable Remediation through the Journal of Environmental Management was published just before Christmas. Link to the thematic journal is: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03014797/184/supp/P1 JS confirmed that the abstract for Aqua Consoil 2017 on behalf of SuRF-UK to run an interactive workshop to undertake a sustainability appraisal has been accepted and that he will be chairing a session on sustainable remediation at Battelle in May. SuRF-UK steering group are planning a meeting on April 24th 2017 to discuss the next stage of SuRF-UK. 4.SuRF-NL： Laurent Bakker （LB） provided an update on behalf of SuRF-NL. He confirmed that SuRF-NL is organising a workshop that will now be held in April 2017. This workshop will provide a recap on the work of ISO, NICOLE and the worldwide work that has been carried out in sustainable remediation. SuRF NL going forward will be focussing on the area of sustainable land management.

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