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The EEAC Working Group Sustainable Development (WG SD) prepared recommendations of European councils for the two topics of the forthcoming UN conference on sustainable development in June 2012 (UNCSD, "Rio+20"): Green Economy and Institutional Framework. On 16 September at the EEAC Annual Conference 2011, these topic above will be discussed in depth in several breakout sessions with speakers from the EEAC councils, the European Commission, the business world, EEA, EESC, NGOs and trade unions. Andrzej Kraszewski, Minister of the Environment of Poland, will illustrate the preparations for Rio+20 during the Polish presidency of the EU.
Information about the conference and programme and registration is already available on the EEAC website. Please note that the registration deadline is 31 July. The conference is an official event of the Polish Presidency of the EU.
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Workshop: Transitions to a Low Carbon Energy System in Europe |
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organised by the EEAC Working Group Energy – Brussels, 4 October 2011
The Low Carbon Economy Roadmap of the European Commission advocates a close to complete decarbonisation of the Power Sector, while relying on a portfolio of nuclear, fossil and renewable technologies. The Energy Road Map will be a frame for the policy mix, necessary for achieving the overall goals of the Low Carbon Road Map. The Energy Road Map needs to offer an integrated perspective on technology choices, market order and support schemes and infrastructure policy and planning beyond 2020.
The EEAC Energy Working Group is advocating a transition to a low carbon economy which at the same time must be an exit strategy to nuclear and fossil fuels, respect biodiversity and may contribute to “green growth”. This topic will be addressed in the EEAC Annual Conference and further elaborated in a workshop, held in Brussels on 4 October 2011. A basis of this workshop is a discussion paper by the chair of the EEAC WG Energy, commenting the Commission’s “Roadmap for a competitive low carbon economy” from March 2011.
Link to the workshop
Download the discussion paper
EEAC Chair speaks at 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Management |
The Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology of the University of Zagreb, Croatia, will host the 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Management – Toward Sustainable Technologies, SEM2011 on October 26 - 28, in Zagreb, Croatia. It is organized in cooperation with the Hrvatske vode, (the Legal entity for water management, HR), the Slovenian Biomass Association, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the Jackson State University (USA), the Croatian American Society (HR) and Odraz (Sustainable Community Development, NGO, HR). EEAC Chair Miranda Schreurs is among the speakers and will present one of the selected topics.
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World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability |
In this report, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) lays out the reasons for the urgent need for a post-fossil economic strategy, yet it also concludes that the transition to sustainability is achievable, and presents ten concrete packages of measures to accelerate the imperative restructuring. If the transformation really is to succeed, we have to enter into a social contract for innovation, in the form of a new kind of discourse between governments and citizens, both within and beyond the boundaries of the nation state.
Download the summary. A full version will be published later this year.
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