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About this series of events
In
the context of current
negotiations on further climate change action (post 2012),
a series of six capacity building workshops and two conferences
for the new EU Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries was
held in 2006 and 2007.
The project
convened about 350 participants from business, politics, academia
and civil society. Ministers of Environment of the respective host
country opened these respective meetings.
The
project produced a number of recommendations for future climate
change policies:
Project
Recommendations [pdf, 80 KB, English]
The
following events took place:
- Opening Conference 2006 in Warsaw,
- 4 Country-specific Workshops and 2
Strategy Workshops in Riga
(2006), Sofia
(2006), Ljubljana
(2006) and Prague
(2007)
- Final Conference in Budapest,
October 2007.
These
events were designed to bring together policy makers, businesses,
non-governmental organisations, public authorities, scientists and
others. They were intended to:
- help facilitate discussions in the
new Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries on further
climate change action;
- create additional public awareness
and networks of relevant stakeholders;
- strengthen the capacity of the new
Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries to contribute
to the negotiations on future EU and global climate policy.
The
Opening
Conference brought together approximately 80 key players and
opinion leaders from politics, business, non-governmental organisations,
research institutes and think tanks. At the Country-specific Workshops,
country-specific issues were discussed more intensively among regional
groups of three to four countries. During the Strategy Workshops,
ongoing developments were assessed based on the results of the Country-specific
workshops.
The Final Conference in October
2007 brought together representatives from politics, business, non-governmental
organisations, science and other fields. On 15 October 2007, the
day before the Final Conference, a regional consultation workshop
on the recent Commission's Green Paper on Adaptation ("Adapting
to Climate Change in Europe -- Options for EU Action") was
held. An informal governmental round table on future climate change
policies was conducted the day after the Final Conference (17 October
2007).
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