| Title: |
EC Green Week - Changing our Behavious (Meeting June 2007)
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| Resource Type: |
document --> technical publication --> proceedings / conference paper(s)
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| Country: |
European Union
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| Year of publication: |
2007 |
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Web link
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| Author 1/Producer: |
European Commission
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Brownfields
Contaminated land-->Cost benefit analysis-->Cost benefit analysis overview
Contaminated land-->funding
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Receptor: Human health
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Risk assessment overview
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Assessment tools
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Economic
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Environmental
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| Short description: |
Green Week (organised by the European Commission in Brussels June 2007)
reviewed the lessons learnt from past environmental actions and look at
how these can be applied to current and emerging environmental problems
such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, and pressure on resources.
Tuesday, 12 June Session 2. Where are we today? Climate change:
learning from science
Session 3. Where are we today? Human health
Session 4.1 Where are we today? From damage limitation to forward
planning
Session 5. Where are we today? Land use and biodiversity
Wednesday, 13 June Session 6.1 Responding to the challenges. Climate change The climate
challenge of the 21st century - climate impacts, options and needs to
adapt to climate change
Session 6.2 Responding to the challenges. Climate change Limiting global
climate change to 2 °C - the way forward in domestic and global climate
policies
Session 7. Future scenarios: human health and the environment
Session 8.1 Future scenarios: natural resources and secondary materials
- from European approach to global challenge
Session 8.2 Future scenarios: ship dismantling - how to tackle the costs
and challenges of global recycling
Session 9 Future scenarios: land use and biodiversity
Session 10.1 Global responsibility. Footprints International approaches to
a more sustainable use of natural resources - strengths and limits of
voluntary and regulatory approaches
Session 10.2 Global responsibility. Footprints EU environment policy in
the context of Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy
Session 11.1 Responding to the challenges. Market instruments Making
green pay - economic instruments for a clean environment
Session 11.2 Responding to the challenges. Market instruments Making
green pay - global carbon markets and EU ETS
Session 12.1 Responding to the challenges. Economic sector Sustainable
production - a joint effort!
Session 12.2 Responding to the challenges. Economic sector Role of the
IPPC Directive to deploy environmental technologies and promote
innovation - return of experience and possible future development
Session 13. Responding to the challenges. Actors Regions and cities as
motors for environmental sustainability
Thursday, 14 June Session 14. 1 Achieving effective international co-operation. Governing the
global environment
Session 14.2 Achieving effective international co-operation. Investing in
environment for development How to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals)
Session 15. Responding to the challenges. Policy instruments Be a
policymaker for a day
Session 17. Responding to the challenges. Actors Engaging citizens. and
changing our lifestyle
Session 19. Responding to the challenges. Nanotechnology:
environmental technology for the future?
Session 20.1 Responding to the challenges. Land use and biodiversity: 'to
feed, or not to feed: that is the question'
Session 20.2 Responding to the challenges. Land use and biodiversity:
'bio-fuels - is it all gold that glitters?'
Session 21.1 Responding to the challenges. Actors Business
commitments for the environment - building partnership between business
and biodiversity
Session 21.2 Responding to the challenges. Actors Business
commitments for the environment - Green Business Pays!
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Link to Organisation(s):
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EC European Commission
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 01/07/2007
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