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Land Use in an Era of Global Change
De financiële crisis en economische recessie krijgen nu alle aandacht, maar de mondiale voedsel-, energie-, water- en biodiversiteit en klimaatproblemen zijn verre van opgelost. De behoeften van de bevolking aan zoet water, voedsel en energie leiden tot een grote druk op het landgebruik. Hierachter gaan demografische ontwikkelingen en welvaartsveranderingen schuil.
De Raad voor het Landelijk Gebied heeft samen met andere adviesraden in Europa gezocht naar oplossingsrichtingen voor een duurzamer landgebruik. Onder voorzitterschap van de raad heeft de EEAC-werkgroep Landbouw en landgebruik op 5 juni 2009 in Brussel het seminar ‘Land Use in an Era of Global Change’ georganiseerd. Het verslag is thans gereed. EEAC is van plan om het onderwerpen verder uit te diepen, en heeft daarom Sustainable Land Use als het thema voor de EEAC jaarconferentie 2010 gekozen.
Lees het verslag van het seminar ‘Land Use in an Era of Global Change’
Lees de begeleidende brief aan Europees commissaris Fischer Boel
Towards Sustainable European Infrastructures
On 23rd of October 2009 at the Annual Conference of EEAC representatives of national environmental and sustainable development councils presented the EEAC statement 'Towards Sustainable European Infrastructures’. The EU will need a new more integrated and strategic approach in planning for electricity, transport and green infrastructure networks, in the view of its long term decarbonisation, biodiversity and sustainable development targets. The Councils therefore call for a review of the conventional “predict and provide” approach. A key challenge will be to establish a Transeuropean long-distance grid for renewable electricity based on sustainability principles.
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Read the press release
RLG-network meeting and debate: EU-policy and biomass in rural areas
On 24 April the Dutch Council for the Rural Area (RLG) held a meeting in Residence Palace, Brussels. The Dutch Permanent Representation of the EU informed the council about the latest EU policy developments as to rural areas in relation to the working programme of RLG. John Bensted-Smith, DG Agriculture gave a short introduction to the present state of the CAP Health Check. The afternoon programme was focussed on biomass. RLG is now finalising a report on Biomass in Rural Areas. As input for this report a debate was held to exchange views and information on the latest policy developments as to biomass and rural areas. The debate focused on EU-policy objectives and targets for biomass for energy, threats and opportunities for the rural areas and the dilemma between giving room for learning experiences and the necessity for risk management. The debate started with a presentation by Mauro Poinelli, DG Agriculture, about the EU policy objectives on biomass, followed by introductions from the Netherlands (RLG, Huib Silvis), Sweden (former MVB, Erik Westholm) and Austria (OEVAF, Alexander Bachler) and a lively debate. At the end Ursula Vavrik, independant consultant, gave a reflection on the results: not only highlighting what had been said, but also signalling what had not been mentioned.
Introduction Huib Silvis:
Network meeting and debate 'Energy from Biomass in European Areas'
Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
On 11 March 2008 the EEAC Working Group Agriculture and Rural Devleopment held a working group meeting in Brussels with an agenda around two themes:
1. Reform of the CAP: the public debate.
2. EU-budget and CAP: public value for public money.
Programme
1a. Background: Huib Silvis
1b. Reflections on the public debate: Renate Werkman
Discussants: Mary Ann Sorensen, Helen Rimmer
1c. Council activities on CAP-reform - Gert van der Bijl a.o.
2a. EU Financing
Introduction: Marjan Margadant
Discussants: Ursula Vavrik, Sandra Volbeda, Ana Vasiliu
2b. Towards Targeted Payments
Introduction: Gert van der Bijl
The English Environmental Stewardship Entry Level Scheme: Steve Chaplin
Discussant: Andreas Krug
Activity Report 2007: Globalisation, Land Use Change and the Common Agricultural Policy
This report presents an overview of the activities of the EEAC Working Group Agriculture and Rural Development in 2007. During the year the working group organised two international seminars, one on the global economic drivers of land use change and the other on assessing the environmental impact of major changes to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In addition to the seminars, a study was commissioned on implementation of the CAP in 27 EU Member States.
Read the Activity Report 2007
Read the accompanying letter (in Dutch) to Dutch Minister Verburg
Read the accompanying letter to European Commissioner Fischer Boel
Seminar 'Assessing the environmental consequences of major CAP changes' - June 2007
The EEAC Seminar 'Assessing the environmental consequences of major CAP changes' took place in Brussels, on 28 and 29 June 2007. It was organised by the EEAC Working Group on Agriculture and Rural Development (EEAC WG Agriculture).
Read the programme and the presentations
Seminar 'Global economic drivers for land use change' - March 2007
The EEAC Seminar 'Global economic drivers for land use change' took place in Amersfoort, The Netherlands on 30 March. It was organised by the EEAC Working Group on Agriculture and Rural Development (EEAC WG Agriculture).
Read the programme and the presentations
CAP in 27 Member States
The study, presented as a website, provides an overview of how 27 EU Member States have been implementing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and what they think about its future role.
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