16th Annual Conference of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils EEAC, 9-11 October 2008 in Bordeaux, France

Sustaining Europe for a Long Way Ahead: Making long-term sustainable development policies work

Hosted by the the Conseil National du Développement Durable (CNDD)

                

PROGRAMME & PRESENTATIONS

WEDNESDAY 08.10    INTERNAL PRE-MEETINGS 

15:00-18:00 Meeting of the Working Group Sustainable Development
17:30-20:00 EEAC Steering Committee and Board meeting
Evening Arriving of (other) EEAC participants

THURSDAY 09.10    EEAC INTERNAL DAY (afternoon open to external participation)

08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:45 Four parallel EEAC Working Groups sessions: Biodiversity, Energy, Governance, Marine 
10:45-11:15 Coffee/Tea break
11:15-13:00 Three parallel Working Groups sessions: Agriculture, Energy/Transport, Sustainable Development
13:00-14:00 Lunch 
14:00-15:30 Presentations of selected EEAC members' recent advice and activity (session open for external guests): 

A Sustainable Development Strategy for the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion: Basic Guidelines (CADS, Spain/Catalonia) Presentation

Road Pricing: Key To Solving Transport Problems (Comhar, Ireland) Presentation

Making Lisbon more sustainable: Opinions of a SD-council on the National Reform Program, (FRDO-CFDD, Belgium) Presentation

Which traffic lights are red? - on the indicator report by the Agency for Statistics (RNE, Germany) Presentation
15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea break 
16:00-18:00 Special session: Governance for Sustainable Development in Asia & the Pacific and Europe
Four presentations by guests from Asia & the Pacific and four responses from Europe
Chair: Guenther Bachmann, Director of the RNE, Germany 

Sarunya Sujaritpong, Asia & Pacific network, coordinator, Thailand: Comparative view of SD strategies in Asia & the Pacific Presentation
Ella Antonio, Asia & Pacific network advisory, group member, advisory council expert, Philippines: Overview of SD Councils in Asia & the Pacific Presentation

Responses:
Jan de Smedt, Director FRDO-CFDD (a  Belgian SD council): Approaches for SD strategies in EU member states Presentation
Ingeborg Niestroy (Secretary General of EEAC and author of two comparative studies on SD councils in Europe): Types and capacities of SD councils in EU member states Presentation

Nguyen Tuan Anh, Deputy General Director, Viet Nam Agenda 21 Office, Ministry of Planning and Investment of Viet Nam: Viet Nam-specific experience with sustainable development councils and strategies Presentation
Bulat Yessekin, Member of the National Council on SD of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Central Asia: Issues and perspectives for SD strategies implementation Presentation

Responses:
Andrew Lee, Director, UK SD Commission: The SD Commission's experience with involving stakeholders and interacting with government Presentation
Louis Meuleman, Director, RMNO (a Dutch advisory council on knowledge questions for SD), and coordinator of the peer review in 2007: The Netherlands' SD policies' peer review Presentation
20:00 Dinner

FRIDAY 10.10    MAIN CONFERENCE DAY

Morning Session
09:00-09:30

Welcome and Conference Opening:
Michel Ricard, President CNDD
Michèle Pappalardo , General Commissioner for Sustainable Development Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning, France
09:30-11:00  Panel 1 – Theme papers: 

Governance, Roel in t' Veld, RMNO, the Neteherlands Presentation 

Social Justice, Jan de Smedt, FRDO-CFDD, Belgium Presentation 

Demography, Guenther Backmann and Dorothee Braun,  RNE, Germany Presentation 

Markets, Tim O'Riordan, SDC, UK Presentation

Discussion with the audience
11:00-11:30  Coffee/Tea break
11:30-12:00

Viewpoint from the environmental side: John Hontelez, Director EEB, Presentation
12:00-12:30  Viewpoint from business: Henri Proglio, President of Veolia Environment
12.30-14:00  Lunch

Afternoon Session

14.00-15:30

Panel 2 – Theme papers: 

Education, Michel Ricard, CNDD, France Presentation 

Culture, Noel Casserly, Comhar SDC, Ireland Presentation

Diversity, Xavier Cazorla-Clarisó, CADS, Catalonia, Spain Presentation

EU budget, Marjan Margadant, RLG, the Netherlands Presentation

Discussion with the audience

15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea break
16:00-16:30 Viewpoint from the social side: Joel Decaillon, ETUC
16:30-17:00  Viewpoint from the European Commission: Marcel Haag, Secretariat General
17:00-17:30 Viewpoint by Alain Juppé, Mayor of Bordeaux
17:30-18:00 Closing by the Working Group chairs Michel Ricard and Tim O'Riordan
20:00 Conference Dinner hosted by the Mayor of Bordeaux

SATURDAY 11.10    EEAC INTERNAL DAY

9.30-13:00 EEAC Annual Plenary Session (APS)
13:00 Lunch 
14:00-18:30 Excursion

 

 

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