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About
this workshop
Summary
[pdf, 124 KB, English]
In
light of beginning negotiations on further action / post 2012, Ecologic
- Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
- organised the workshop "Future Climate Change Policy in the
Accession and Candidate Countries: Looking beyond 2012". The
workshop was the third in a series of events commissioned by the
European Commission.
Against
the background of the beginning negotiations, it was the workshop's
aim to:
- help facilitate a societal debate
in the Accession and Candidate Countries on the challenges and
opportunities arising from future climate change policy,
- exchange views on how the EU, and
the new Member States, in particular the Accession and Candidate
Countries, should build on the Kyoto Protocol and how countries
should work together after 2012 to fight climate change,
- involve relevant political actors
in the discussions,
- carry out a needs assessment in the
Accession and Candidate Countries.
The
workshop brought together 37 key players and opinion leaders from
politics, business, non-governmental organizations, research
institutes and think tanks in the Accession and Candidate Countries
as well as European Institutions.
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