Regional Event Challenges for the sustainable management of mining environmental liabilities

Day Monday August 1:

9:00-10:00

Accreditation

Opening

10:00-10:05

Alessandra Herrera Jara, Minister, Ministry of Energy and Mines, Peru

10:05-10:10

Igor Garafulic, Resident Coordinator of the UN system in Peru

10:10-10:15

Achim Constantin, MinSus Project Director, Federal Institute of Geosciences and Raw Materials (BGR)

10:15-10:20

Carlos de Miguel, Head, Policy Unit for Sustainable Development, ECLAC

10:20-10:35

Coffee

Regional vision of environmental liabilities

10:35-10:55

Necessary conditions for the integral management of Environmental Liabilities

Mauricio Pereira, Researcher, Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements, ECLAC

10:55-11:15

Results of the Coordinated Audit of Mining Environmental Liabilities

Benjamín Reyes, Comptroller General of the Republic of Chile, member of OLACEFS

11:15-11:35

Sustainable Management of Mining Environmental Liabilities: Focus on Ibero-America

Fredy Guzman, Association of Geology and Mining Services

Ibero-Americans (ASGMI)

11:35-11:50

Questions and comments

Legal and financial frameworks

11:50-12:35

Policy dialogue I: Legal frameworks

Introductory presentation: Julio Lavín, Lawyer specializing in the Environment (15 mins.)

Moderator: ECLAC/BGR

Panelists:

• Leonardo Pflüger, National Director of Sustainable Mining Production, National Mining Secretariat, Argentina.
• Luis do Carmo, Secretary of Mining of the Nation, Argentina.
• Xavier Barriga, General Director of Socio-Environmental Management, Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy, Plurinational State of Bolivia
• Sebastián Aylwin, Head of the Environmental Assessment Office, Ministry of the Environment, Chile.
• Jairo Homez, Advisor, Department of Sectoral and Urban Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia.
• Andrea Hernández, Director of Regulations and Environmental Control, Ministry of the Environment, Water and Ecological Transition, Ecuador.
• Yury Pinto Ortiz, Director of the Mining Environmental Management Directorate of the General Directorate of Mining Environmental Affairs, MINEM

12:35-12:50

Questions and answers

12:50-2:30 p.m.

Lunch

14:30-15:15

Policy Dialogue II: Financial Frameworks

Introductory presentation: Jacques Clerc (15 mins.)

Moderator: ECLAC/BGR

Panelists:

• Leonardo Pflüger, National Director of Sustainable Mining Production, National Mining Secretariat, Argentina.
• Luis do Carmo, Secretary of Mining of the Nation, Argentina.
• Xavier Barriga, General Director of Socio-Environmental Management, Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy, Plurinational State of Bolivia
• Sebastián Aylwin, Head of the Environmental Assessment Office, Ministry of the Environment, Chile.
• Jairo Homez, Advisor, Department of Sectoral and Urban Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia.
• Andrea Hernández, Director of Regulations and Environmental Control, Ministry of the Environment, Water and Ecological Transition, Ecuador.
• César Miranda Rosales, Specialist of the General Directorate of Mining, MINEM

15:15-15:25

Questions and answers

15:25-15:40

Coffee

15:40-16:05

Comprehensive approach to PAM management: the case of Colombia

Mauricio Cabrera, WWF Colombia

16:05-16:15

Questions and answers

Revaluation, alternative uses of waste approaches to prioritize remediation activities

16:15-16:45

Remediation and secondary mining

Achim Constantin, BGR Representative

16:45-17:15

Approaches to Prioritize Remediation Activities

Rosa Maria Flores, UNAM Academic

17:15-17:25

Questions and answers

17:25-17:30

Closing of the day

Day Tuesday August 2

09:30-09:40

opening day

Management for the remediation of PAM: the case of Peru

09:40-10:00

The experience of Activos Mineros SAC

Antonio Montenegro, General Manager, AMSAC

10:00-10:20

The role of the Ministry of the Environment in the management of Environmental Liabilities

Raquel Soto, G. Director of Environmental Management Policies and Instruments, MINAM

10:20-10:40

The role of the Ministry of Energy and Mines in the management of Environmental Liabilities

Martha Vásquez Bonifaz, Director of the General Directorate of Mining, MINEM

10:40-11:00

The role of the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute in the management of Environmental Liabilities

Henry Luna Córdova, Executive President, INGEMMET

11:00-11:10

Questions and answers

11:10-11:30

Coffee

Examples of mining liability management in Germany

11:30-11:55

Geoscientific and geotechnical challenges in the post-mining landscapes of Lusatia/Germany

Elisabeth Schonfeldt, BGR Representative

11:55-12:20

PAM research with drone support

Olaf Cortez, BGR Representative

12:20-12:30

Questions and answers

Recommendations with a human rights approach in environmental impact assessments of mining projects

12:30-12:55

Presentation: Recommendations with a human rights approach in environmental impact assessments of mining projects

Alicia Abanto, Deputy Ombudsman, Ombudsman’s Office of Peru

12:55-13:15

Questions and answers

13:15-14:30

Lunch

Recommendations of the Environmental Performance Assessment in Peru: The mining sector

14:30-15:00

Presentation of the document: Evaluation of Environmental Performance in Peru: The mining sector

Carlos de Miguel/Mauricio Pereira, ECLAC

15:00-16:00

Policy Dialogue: Environmental Performance Assessment in Peru: The Mining Sector

Moderator: ECLAC

Panelists:

• Ivan Lanegra, Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
• Alicia Abanto, Deputy Ombudsman, Ombudsman’s Office of Peru
• Isabel Calle, Lawyer, Peruvian Society of Environmental Law
• Marisa Galve, Associate Researcher, Desco
• Raquel Soto, G. Director of Environmental Management Policies and Instruments, MINAM
• Gaby Palacios Valdivia, Advisor General Directorate of Mining, MINEM

16:00-16:15

Questions and answers

16:15-16:30

Coffee

16:30-16:40

Closing Words

Carlos de Miguel, Head, Policy Unit for Sustainable Development, ECLAC

Achim Constantin, Director of the MINSUS project, BGR

MINEM representative

Day Wednesday August 3

7:00-19:00

Technical field visit