Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis

The United Nations Environment Programme - GRID-Geneva will launch the Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis report in an online press event.

The press conference will take place at 9:40am CEST / 10:40am EAT on Tuesday, 26 April 2022, and it will be followed by an hybrid event with leading experts from 3:00pm to 4:30pm CEST/ from 4:00pm to 5:30pm EAT. To join the hybrid event which is organized by the Geneva Environment Network (GEN), registrations are required in the following platforms:

1. Online event
2. In-person event

Sand plays a strategic role in delivering ecosystem services, vital infrastructure for economic development, providing livelihoods within communities and maintaining biodiversity. However, its extraction, sourcing, use, and management are largely ungoverned in many regions of the world, leading to numerous environmental and social consequences that have been largely overlooked.

While the first edition of this report -“Sand and sustainability finding new solutions for environmental governance" (UNEP 2019) raised the awareness on this issue, the new edition “Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis” consolidates the expertise in sand and sustainability from different sectors to bring attention to the impacts from the current state of extraction, use and (mis)management, putting forward recommendations for actions to set the global sand agenda.