European Sustainability Kinsale 04 - Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development in EU 25
Enlargement of the European Union to 25 member states presents new challenges and opportunities for revitalising and refocusing sustainable development policy. At EU level, there has been a commitment to review the European Union Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS); at the same time, many member states have reviewed, or are reviewing, their national strategies in the light of the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development and developments at EU level. Accordingly, now is the time to forge stronger and closer connections between national and EU policies to make sustainable development more of a reality.
Against this background, and as part of Ireland’s EU Presidency, the Irish Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Comhar, Ireland’s National Sustainable Development Partnership, hosted a conference on sustainable development in April 2004. The theme of the conference will address the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in an enlarged EU. It will build on the outcome of the Vienna workshop and expert meeting in The Hague with a view to contributing practical perspectives for the purposes of the SDS review, and further explore ways of linking national strategies and strengthening coherence with a reviewed SDS.
Summary
Conference Papers:
Speech by Martin Cullen
T.D., Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
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Presentation by Catherine Day, Director-General, Environment DG, European Commission
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Presentation on the theme of Workshop A, Strategic Issues for Sustainable Development in Europe
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Presentation on the theme of Workshop B, Strategic Issues for Sustainable Development in Europe
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Presentation on the theme of Workshop C, Strategic Issues for Sustainable Development in Europe
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[PDF, 99KB] |
EEAC Working Group Sustainable Development:
In the course of the Kinsale conference the representatives of EEAC
councils agreed on a document to be known as the ‘Kinsale Challenge’
making a number of specific recommendations to the EU and the Member States
about the Lisbon and the EU Sustainable Development Strategy Review,
particularly requesting that the Lisbon process should take account of the EU
SDS review so that the sustainability dimension can be better reflected in it.
The Kinsale Challenge. Reinforcing Sustainable Development in the European Union
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