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2009-2010: follow-up and spin-off events of the EEAC Statement "Towards Sustainable European Infrastructures"
2009: Towards Sustainable European Infrastructures
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2009-2010: follow-up and and spin-off events of the EEAC Statement "Towards Sustainable European Infrastructures"

Chair: Christian Hey, German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU)

Workshop "Scenarios and Policies for Decarbonisation" and first WG meeting of 2010

On March 22, the WG Energy will hold a workshop in the premises of the EESC (European Economic and Social Committee) in Brussels with the title "Scenarios and Policies for Decarbonisation". This event is also registered under the activities within the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW). The workshop's purpose is to bring some of the scenario writers on energy together and to discuss common and diverging assumptions, methods and outcomes. Eventually this will lead also to some shared policy conclusions. Christian Hey, chair of the Working Group Energy, initiated this event, as a follow-up to the EEAC 2009 Statement "Towards Sustainable European Infrastructures" where 10 steps towards decarbonisation are highlighted. The workshop will focus on the analysis of the Eurelectric study "Power Choices - Pathways to Carbon-Neutral Electricity in Europe by 2050". Read more.

On March 23, after the WG Energy workshop on 22 March "Scenarios and Policies for Decarbonisation" the WG will meet in Brussels. Here the chair of the workshop will present its conclusions. Also the feedback of the dissemination of the 2009 Statement on national and EU level will be discussed..

Besides this, the WG will contribute to one of the priority topics identified by the Forward Looking Paper, namely "Going beyond the New Green Deal".

2009: "Towards Sustainable European Infrastructures"

Chair: Christian Hey, German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU)

Main outcome 2009

During 2009 the Working Group Energy (WG Energy) prepared the EEAC Annual Conference and Statement 2009 (pdf., 500 kB) "Towards Sustainable European Infrastructures" with the focus on transport, energy and green networks. In the point of view of the WG, the success of the EEAC 2009 Conference and Statement is outreach, with attendance from the Commission, EESC, ESDN, and interest by the European Movement. A press release summarises the highlights of the 2009 Statement.

In January the WG met in Brussels to prepare the theme for the 17th Annual conference 2009. The group discussed to change the name of the Conference and Statement into: Towards Sustainable European Networks. For the statement the WG agreed on: the overall orientation of the statement introduction, where the link to the EEAC statement 2008 should be made more explicit; that the message of the transport infrastructure needs to address more fundamental aspects of a transition rather than individual instruments/modes; focusing on the point to keep the options for a transition towards renewables open; following the suggestion from Comhar for the idea "Green Networks". For the Conference the WG agreed on: some invited speakers to be contacted; one working group in the conference day to be an experimental case for a interactive approach with a specific technical solution provided by the CEPRS (SLO) and a special event, Risk prevention from Maritime Oil and gas Transport, to be organised by the Croatian host, SORZO (HR), on Thursday 21 October.
In April the WG Energy met in Berlin and continued the preparations for the annual conference and the statement 2009. The WG also settled a timetable for the forthcoming work. A tele-conference was held on 25 May to follow-up this process, this resulted in a full draft of the Statement at the end of May.
In June councils with delegates in the WG were asked to endorse the Statement. 19 councils in total endorsed the document.
In October the Statement was officially presented at the Annual Conference in Dubrovnik together with a press release. The WG also initiated the dissemination process towards stakeholders.
In December the WG Biodiveristy chair Noel Casserly (COMHAR-SDC, IE) met with representatives of the DG Environment and presented the part of the 2009 Statement on green infrastructures.

download the 2009 Statement and the press release

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