25/01/2021 Germania, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
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This conference brings together the latest scientific research, industry best practice, navy expertise, technical innovation as well as economic and political considerations to create a new shared perspective on the challenge of legacy munition.
TOPICS
The event addresses the whole spectra of pressing issues in legacy munition clearance. Through panel debates, technology showcases and roundtables it will cover the following topics:
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Research Environment
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Environmental & Societal Impact
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Latest Detection & Identification Technologies
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Remediation Solutions
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Stakeholder Roles & Responsibilities
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Legal Aspects
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Funding Options
OUR MESSAGE
The sea floor has become the waste dump of vast amounts of munitions, a legacy of wars and other military operations. Worldwide, the largest amount comes from deliberate dumping after the end of World War II. The rest stems from shipwrecks, unexploded ordnance from conflicts and remnants of former military training sites.
Off the German coast alone, an estimated 1.6 million tons of derelict conventional and chemical weapons are rusting away at the bottom of the North-and the Baltic Sea. Their explosive and chemical content endangers the environment, shipping, marine infrastructure, marine life and human safety at the shore and in the open sea as carcinogenic substances leaking from the dumped munition may enter the human food chain via mussels and fish. Across the oceans only a fraction of contaminated sites has been charted yet which prevents the understanding and managing the full extent of the problem. What is clear is the growing problem of rusting munition can only be solved through a transnational and interdisciplinary approach as the oceans do not know any borders.
We therefore ask you to join us at Kiel Munition Clearance Week to share your expertise, get up to date and learn from each other to enable us all to put our knowledge into action across the oceans.
Foto-Fonte: munitionclearanceweek.org
