| Title: | Capacity Building in New EU Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries on Further Climate Change Action Post-2012 |
| Coordinating Institutions: |
Ecologic, Berlin Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD), Warsaw Institute on Environmental studies (IVM), Amsterdam Institute for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), London German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin (Link to Process) |
| Objective: |
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| Project Description: |
While EU climate change policy has been a subject of common debate and action for
the EU-15 since the early 1990s, new EU Member States have had much less time to
enter into this debate. The new Member States adopted the current European climate
change provisions as part of the acquis communautaire with their accession. Thus,
full involvement of the new Member States in the climate policy discussion is still
not given in practice. Domestic factors, such as limited resources and the relatively
low priority the issue is given in public debate, contribute to this situation. However,
in order to exert adequate influence on decision-making at the international and especially
the EU level and make informed contributions, a high level of public awareness in new Member
States, Acceding and Candidate Countries will be needed. In the context of current discussions on further climate change action (post 2012), a series of six capacity building workshops and two conferences for the new EU Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries is planned in 2006 and 2007:
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