EDEN PROJECT and the POSTMINING ALLIANCE

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EDEN PROJECT and the POST-MINING ALLIANCE

• Presentation to European Network of Mining
  Regions
• Pete Whitbread-Abrutat Caroline Digby

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Cornwall
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Eden Project image
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Eden Project some achievements

• Reclaimed a quarry into an educational visitor
  attraction (gt6 million visitors since 2001)
• Directly created gt450 jobs
• Generates 150 million per year for local economy
• Nurturing the development of the Post-Mining
  Alliance

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Post-Mining Alliance aims

• Aims
• Stimulate action on adverse legacies
• Promote the implementation of good practice in
  mine closure and post-mining regeneration
• Promote multi-stakeholder approaches in which
  risks, responsibilities and opportunities are
  shared
• Approach independent, not-for-profit,
  apolitical, multi-stakeholder

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Post-Mining Alliance activities

• Currently in two-year development phase
• Finalising five-year business plan
• Organisational development
• Fund-raising
• ENMR
• Establishing Cornwall Network
• Priority-setting workshop hosted by UNEP, Paris

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Role in ENMR Project

• Take a lead in developing policy and activities
  associated with
• Mine closure
• Mining legacy
• Post-mining regeneration
• Dissemination activities