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About
this event
Day
1 (October 15, 2007)
Summary
[pdf, 82 KB, English]
Day
2 (October 16, 2007)
Summary
[pdf, 93 KB, English]
Project
Recommendations [pdf, 80 KB, English]
Please
refer to Background for more related
documents.
The
event consisted of a regional consultation workshop on the recent
Commission's Green Paper on Adaptation ("Adapting to Climate
Change in Europe -- Options for EU Action", 15 October 2007),
the Conference "Future Climate Change Policy in the New Member
States and Candidate Countries" (16 October 2007) and an informal
governmental round table on future climate change policies (17 October
2007).
The
regional workshop on adaptation discussed the recent Green Paper
on Adaptation and allowed stakeholders to contribute to the on-going
consultation process on adaptation. The workshop was one in a series
of events conducted in several European countries and was intended
to facilitate the debate on adaptation.
The
conference on the 16th of October concluded a series of events in
the new Member States and Candidate Countries. Taking into account
the specific circumstances in the new Member States and Candidate
Countries, this Conference intends to discuss the findings of the
series. The Conference intended to produce recommendations to policy
makers on how the EU, and in particular the countries addressed,
should build on the Kyoto Protocol and work together after 2012
to combat climate change. The conference brought together approximately
80 to 100 key players and opinion leaders from politics, business,
non-governmental organisations, research institutes and think tanks
in the new Member States and Candidate Countries. Government representatives
from the old Member States as well as the European Commission also
attended.
On
the 17th of October, high-level governmental consultations were
held on the opportunities and challenges of future climate change
policies of the New Member States and Candidate Countries as well
as adaptation issues in the countries. These consultations were
opened by a brief presentation and discussion of the main findings
from the first two days of the event. Participants in the round
table had been invited by the European Commission.
Conference
organisers (Consortium)
The
conference had been organised by the European Commission and Ecologic
- Institute for International and Environmental Policy in Berlin,
in co-operation with the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD)
in Warsaw, the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the
Free University of Amsterdam, the Foundation for International Environmental
Law and Development (FIELD) in London, the German Institute for
Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin, and a network of experts from
additional institutions in the old and new Member States.
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