E3G

Invitation: Sustainable Europe event at Hungarian Embassy

By Chris Littlecott

E3G is pleased to be participating in a forthcoming event organised by The Embassy of the Republic of Hungary and the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.

The discussion event will take place on the morning of the 25th May and will be entitled “The EU – a pilot for sustainability?: The transition of Central and Eastern Europe as a regional and global opportunity for walking the talk”.

In the last two decades, Europe has been occupied with the handling of three major political processes running in parallel: the conflict between environment and development threatening the world economy, the security challenge of the collapse of the Soviet empire, and the legal and logistic upheavals of the “exponential” enlargement of the EU.

The event will provide an opportunity to assess the current situation and to discuss the future role of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean in these efforts.

Event details

Date: 25th May 2007.    8.30 – 13.00

Venue: The Embassy of the Republic of Hungary; 35 Eaton Place, SW1X 8BY, London

Draft agenda

8:30   Coffee, registration

9:00   Welcome – Ambassador Borbála Czakó

9:10   Europe in the world – introduction by Mr.Tom Burke, Adviser at the UK Foreign Office (Founding Director of E3G, Visiting Professor at Imperial and University College London)

9:40   Political and economic solutions – do we have any at EU level? – Mr. Nick Mabey, E3G

10:10   Challenge, chance and conditions for proving the EU’s climate change proposals at home – Dr. Corrado Clini, Director General, Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea  

10.35   Challenges of Climate Change in Hungary – Mr. Miklos Tatrai, Senior State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Hungary

11:00   The EU “SWOT of sustainability” after the enlargement – Mrs. Marta Szigeti Bonifert, Executive Director, REC

11:15   Debate – introduced and led by Ambassador Borbála Czako

12:00 Buffet lunch

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