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Day: 12 September 2019

Monaco to embark on massive waste collection on World CleanUp Day

by: Cassandra Tanti
12/09/2019

Monaco will be mobilising efforts on both land and at sea for this year’s World CleanUp Day. It will be the first time that the Principality participates in the world-wide campaign and it has but one goal: to collect as much waste as possible.

Larvotto Beach Monaco

The Monaco City Council is backing the first edition of World CleanUp Day in the Principality, which is set to take place on Saturday 21st September. The event is being promoted by Decathlon Monaco, while the Monaco Government will be participating through its Energy Transition mission. The campaign has attracted a lot of enthusiasm from a number of environmental groups in the Principality who are actively collaborating in the preparation of the day, including Stand up for the Planet, the Monegasque Sanitation Society and Eco Angel.

World Cleanup Day aims to mobilise, raise awareness and rally people around the problem of waste that invade the land, rivers and oceans. According to the National Council, these are issues that Marjorie Crovetto Harroch, Counsellor of Environment and Sustainable Development, holds dear.

The first edition of World CleanUp Day in Monaco will echo a global initiative that was launched in 2009 and which last year brought together 18 million participants in 157 countries for the largest waste collection day in human history. It was an epic 36-hour green wave of cleanups across the globe, beginning in New Zealand and travelling around the world before ending in Hawaii.

In Monaco and the bordering towns of Cap d’Ail and La Turbie, a number of activities will be staged this year on land and at sea, combining sport with protecting the planet. On the program are walking, running, hiking, stand-up paddle and solar boat. The goal: to collect as much waste as possible.

At the end of the morning, all participants will meet at 11.45am in the Larvotto district, at La Rose des Vents, where the collected waste will be weighed. There will also be a “zero waste” aperitif offered by the Monaco City Council, which has been committed to the fight against food waste for a number of years now. Also on the menu will be fruit juices made with unsold fruit from La Condamine Market and culinary delights by Chef Julien Baldacchino made from products close to the date of consumption from the Municipal Restaurant.

 

 

JCEM meeting to discuss life in the digital age

by: Cassandra Tanti
12/09/2019

The Young Economic Chamber of Monaco (JCEM) is holding a breakfast conference at the Café de Paris on Thursday 26th September to talk about technology and digital age advancements in the Principality and the impact they will have.

This is the third meeting of its kind being held by the JCEM and is a forum for these young entrepreneurs to meet and discuss the issues and opportunities they face as businesspeople with other leaders in the community. 

The JCEM has designated, as honoured guest for the conference, Frédéric Genta, the Inter-ministerial Delegate for Monaco’s Digital Transformation. The event will be an excellent chance to discuss the latest topic on everyone’s mind: the program introduced by HSH Prince Albert II last May, Extended Monaco.

The aim of Extended Monaco is to attract business through the development and embrace of new technological advances such as a “sovereign cloud”, fibre optic networks and the utilisation of 5G, which was introduced this summer.

Additionally, the Principality intends to become a world leader in the environmental Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) game and is funding its first ICO to aid in the production of a new documentary by Luc Jacquet, who directed the Oscar-winning March of the Penguins.

All these matters would be of great interest to Monaco’s young entrepreneurs and this breakfast will allow them the possibility to learn and discover what the impact of these new technologies will mean to them and their futures.