10-11 March 2010, Madrid, Spain; Conference on governance of European Space programmes, 3-4 May 2010 Segovia, Spain. 6. Contributions and speeches of the conference “Space policy: a powerful ambition [...] the EU”, Brussels, 15-16 October 2009 7. Contribution and conclusions to the conference “1st EU-ESA International conference on Human Space exploration”, Prague, 23 October 2009 (add conclusions) 8 [...] should be stressed, such as a better understanding and modelling of the evolution of the Earth (e.g. climate change) that require comparative planetology as a tool. In general, a European leadership role in
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“Science and education within space exploration”, http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/esp/conferences_space_en.htm. 3 The big European space powers (FR, DE, IT) contribute about half of their national [...] 2. Environmental impact Better information on space weather may result in better knowledge of climate change and earth weather. More accurate information on meteors will reduce the adverse affects of [...] recommendations, 29-30 April 2010, Harwell (UK); http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/esp/conferences_space_en.htm. EN 7 EN 6.3.3. Social impact • An EU intervention in space exploration
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for transport; and a consultation of stakeholders, notably through a High Level Stakeholders’ Conference on 9-10 March 20093. 4. The present Communication summarises the results of this wide reflection [...] share of renewable energy sources in transport by 2020 have been adopted recently as part of the Climate and Energy package20. 3. TRENDS AND CHALLENGES 19. This section describes trends in the main [...] transport sector to mitigate its negative impact on the environment. The EU has recently adopted a Climate and Energy package that sets a target of reducing GHG emission in the EU by 20% with respect to
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2.3. Shaping Europe's digital single market 44 2.4. The single market and green growth: energy, climate change, environment… 47 2.5. The single market for goods: reaping the full benefits 50 2.6. The [...] initiatives is key to generate new momentum, but may be not sufficient to create the political climate for sustainable action. Chapter 3 presents the initiatives to address the concerns identified through [...] The growing importance of services in the economy; - The growing awareness of environmental and climate-change challenges. Besides having to respond to these global changes, Europe's single market has
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societal goals such as protection of the environment, higher resource and energy efficiency, combating climate change, promoting innovation, employment and social inclusion and ensuring the best possible conditions [...] such as the protection of the environment, higher resource and energy efficiency and combating climate change, promoting innovation and social inclusion, and ensuring the best possible conditions for [...] the consultation were summarised in a synthesis paper6 and presented and discussed at a public conference on 30 June 20117. Summary of responses and how they have been taken into account A very large
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societal goals such as protection of the environment, higher resource and energy efficiency, combating climate change, promoting innovation, employment and social inclusion and ensuring the best possible conditions [...] such as the protection of the environment, higher resource and energy efficiency and combating climate change, promoting innovation and social inclusion, and ensuring the best possible conditions for [...] the consultation were summarised in a synthesis paper6 and presented and discussed at a public conference on 30 June 20117. Summary of responses and how they have been taken into account A very large
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EN 4 EN On 9-10 July 2009, the Commission together with three Member States co-organised a conference which gave stakeholders an opportunity to further comment. Around 200 participants attended9. [...] environmental impacts and agreeing that improved bio-waste management could contribute to fighting climate change, help to improve soil quality (composting) and reaching targets for renewable energy (biogas)
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Calculation based on Sander, K. (2008) “Climate protection potentials of EU recycling targets”, Ökopol GmbH, Germany - http://www.eeb.org/publication/documents/RecyclingClimateChangePotentials.pdf 28 Details [...] when the biogas is combusted onsite in a gas engine. 3. Landfilling Direct Climate Change Emissions to Air Climate Change Impacts – landfill gas generation The generation of landfill gas has been [...] EN External costs for electricity, € / MW External costs for heat, € / GJ Climate change Air Quality Climate change Air Quality Austria € 4.99 € 33.67 € 1.78 € 9.03 Belgium € 4.70 € 31.15 €
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global population, rapid depletion of many resources, increasing environmental pressures and climate change, Europe needs to radically change its approach to production, consumption, processing, storage [...] exploitation of its natural resources, significant and potentially irreversible changes to its climate and a continued loss in biodiversity that threaten the stability of the living systems on which [...] societal challenges such as food security, natural resource scarcity, fossil resource dependence and climate change, while achieving sustainable economic growth. Ensuring food security Global population
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carbon sequestration or coexistence37. 1.3.1.2. Agriculture and climate change Agriculture is a significant contributor to climate change and is in return dramatically affected by climatic instability [...] regular Bioeconomy Stakeholders Conference to facilitate and promote communication activities on a yearly basis at EU level from 2012-2017. Encourage similar conferences at national level. Continous: [...] towards more sustainable production .............................. 3 1.3.1.2. Agriculture and climate change ................................................................................... 3 1
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