Green and Sustainable Remediation Platform

International SURF Groups and Partners- Status of countries 22017/05/25

1.NICOLE : NICOLE’s Sustainable Remediation Working Group （SRWG） is now dormant and no meetings will be organized. NICOLE still recognises the importance of sustainable remediation and will promote the subject wherever possible. For example recently NICOLE was represented in China at a EU/Ministry of Environmental Protection China meeting and sustainable remediation was discussed. LB explained that the Chinese describe sustainable remediation （SR） as green and sustainable remediation （GSR） which seems to be quite common, whereas in Europe we only refer to SR. This is because the concepts are still in their infancy and “Green” is considered “good”. Also the term GSR is possibly because this term has been used by ITRC. 2.SuRF US : Barbara Maco （BM） provided an update on SURF-US activities. They recently hosted SURF 33: Sustainable Remediation – What We’ve Learned and Where We’re Going . In 2017 they are working to demonstrate “the importance of SURF given the current political climate,” and to document and continue the work of the U.S.EPA in greener cleanups/sustainable remediation and climate change adaptation. As part of this initiative, on May 11 SURF US will participate in the National Adaptation Forum, a premier gathering of the adaptation-minded, that focuses on issues of the day - established and emerging. https://www.nationaladaptationforum.org/about SURF will facilitate a working session on their technical initiative: Climate Change and Resilience within Sustainable Remediation. A public/private sector team is currently evaluating the planning, research, and activities needed to （1） ensure the long-term sustainability of site remediation from climate change impacts, and （2） examine the benefits of rehabilitated land to strengthen community and ecosystem resilience. BM confirmed that the abstract “Progress in Sustainable Land Management Worldwide” was accepted at AquaConsoil for an oral presentation in the theme session ThS 6a.4 – on Tuesday 27 June. 3.SuRF-JAPAN : Yasuhide Furukawa （YF） was unable to attend in person so sent an update for NH to read out. He informed the SuRF network that the Bureau of Environment and Tokyo Metropolitan Government, held an annual forum of contaminated soil in early March 2017. Over 100 people attended, with the main topic this year being sustainable remediation. There were four presentations. Dr Zhang, who is the vice chairperson of SuRF Japan, gave a presentation about SuRF-Japan and ISRA. YF gave a presentation about ISO standard and a case study. In addition, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government presented their new environmental master plan which mentioned sustainable remediation. They stated that they would start to consider the rational way of decision making from the environment, social, and economic aspects, through all phases of development and remediation. SuRF-Japan will hold their next meeting at the end of March 2017. They will discuss Best Management Practices （BMPs）, the development of a road map and a framework in Japan.

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