A summary of the Space 18th SDG speeches and technical presentations at COPUOS Legal Subcommittee – 15-26 April 2024

Writing from Vienna, at the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee 63^rd session, 15-26 April 2024.

Three speeches, so far, were released by members of our Space 18^th SDG Coalition: a technical presentation, by Alfred Anzaldua, on behalf of NSS, and two oral speeches, by Adriano V. Autino (SRI), and Frederick Jenet (NSS).

• Alfred Anzaldua, 19 April “Organizing internationally to defeat an enemy of Long Term Sustainability: waste accumulation from careless industrial practices”,  10 minutes technical presentation
• Adriano V. Autino, on behalf of SRI, 22 April, 5 minutes oral speech
• Frederick Jenet, on behalf of NSS, 22 April, 5 minutes oral speech

Autino and Jenet gave their 5 minutes speeches the 22 of April, in a session in which several observer NGOs gave their speeches as well. Namely For All MoonKind (Marlène Losier), the MoonVillage Association (Giuseppe Reibaldi), and others. All the videos are available here.

A very interesting meeting was held this morning by the Romanian delegation, for the creation of an Action Team on Lunar Activities Consultation (ATLAC). Though very promising, the meeting was just the kick-off of a brainstorming period, going to define some guidelines, an agenda, and criteria for joining and submitting papers and proposals.

We’ll be here until the end of the session, Friday 26. We’ll probably share a report on the whole thing after the end.

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Ad Astra!

Adriano V. Autino (SRI),
Werner Grandl (SRI),
Alfred Anzaldua (NSS and SRI)