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Future
EU Climate Change Policy - Challenges and Opportunities for New
Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries
Conference,
Warsaw, 23-24 January 2006
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Programme
| Monday,
23 January |
| 8:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00 |
Opening
session
Welcome Address
Jan Szyszko
(Minister of the Environment, Poland) |
| 9:15 |
Introduction
on the purpose of the project and the conference
R. Andreas Kraemer
(Ecologic, Institute for International and European Environmental
Policy, Germany)
Jos Delbeke
(European Commission, DG Environment)
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| 9:45 |
The roles
of new Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries in
the context of the UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, and EU climate
policy
General introduction
Maciej Sadowski
(Institute for Environmental Protection, Poland)
Candidate Country perspective
Yunus Arikan
(REC Country Office, Turkey)
Acceding Country perspective
Kremena Gocheva
(Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgaria)
New Member State
perspective
Tibor Farago
(Ministry of the Environment, Hungary)
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10:15 |
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| 10:45 |
Climate
change: human influence, expected future trends and regional
impacts
Hermann Lotze-Campen
(Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany)
Milan Lapin
(Slovak National Climate Program, Slovakia)
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| 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:45 |
Projections
for future trends of greenhouse gas emissions, possible responses
and opportunities for sustainable economic development
Onno Kuik
(Institute for Environmental Studies, The Netherlands) |
| 12:05 |
Plenary discussion |
| 12:45 |
Lunch
break |
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| 14:15 |
Parallel sessions |
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Breakout
session 1
Climate
change policies in the new Member States, Acceding and Candidate
Countries: Current status and economic implications
Introduction &
Chair:
Andrzej Blachowicz
(Center for Clean Air Policy, Belgium)
Ladislav Pazdera
(Ministry of Industry
and Trade, Czech Republic)
Dagnija Blumberga
(Technical University of Riga, Latvia)
Tomasz Chruszczow
(Federation of Glass Industry, Poland)
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Breakout
session 2
Scenarios
and options for a second commitment period
Introduction & Chair:
MJ Mace
(FIELD, UK)
Bedrich Moldan
(Senate of the Parliament,
Czech Republic)
Tiit Kallaste
(Stockholm Environmental
Institute - Tallinn Centre, Estonia)
Igor Grela
(Electrabel Polska Sp. z o.o., Poland) |
| 15:30 |
Coffee break |
| 15:50 |
Parallel sessions
– continued |
| 17:00 |
Plenary
session
Reports from parallel sessions
Chair:
R. Andreas Kraemer
(Ecologic, Institute for International and European Environmental
Policy, Germany) |
| 17:30 |
Plenary discussion |
| 18:00 |
Conclusions |
| 19:30 |
Dinner reception |
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Tuesday,
24 January |
| 9:00 |
Plenary
session: Future climate change policies in the enlarged EU |
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What
do we learn from the experiences of the EU-15?
Jason Anderson
(Institute for European Environmental Policy, Belgium)
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| 9:20 |
Milestones for the future policy process
Helmut Hojesky
(EU Presidency, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry,
Environment and Water Management, Austria)
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| 9:40 |
Plenary
discussion |
| 10:15 |
Coffee
break |
| 10:45 |
Parallel sessions
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Breakout
session 3
Future EU
climate policy – options and implications for new and
future Member States
Introduction & Chair:
Maciej Sadowski (Institute for Environmental Protection, Poland)
Klara Sutlovicova
(Centre for Transport and Energy, Czech Republic)
Andrievs Janis Folkmanis
(Ministry of Economics, Latvia)
Jozsef Fucsko
(Hungarian Environmental Economics Centre) |
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Breakout
session 4
Options for domestic policies and climate change strategies
of new Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries
Introduction &
Chair:
Diana Urge-Vorsatz
(Central European
University, Hungary)
Lidija Zivcic
(Focus Association
for Sustainable Development, Slovenia)
Kremena Gocheva
(Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgaria)
Josef Zboril (Confederation of Industry, Czech Republic)
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| 12:15 |
Lunch break |
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| 13:45 |
Closing session
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Reports
from Breakout sessions
Chair:
Andrzej Kassenberg
(Institute for Sustainable Development, Poland)
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| 14:30 |
Plenary discussion |
| 15:15 |
Conclusions and outlook |
| 16:00 |
Closure of the session |
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Coffee and informal meeting
time |
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Conference
financed by:
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