Press conference
Europe's coal and steel community spanned 50 years over the latter part of the last century and its nuclear agency, Euratom, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. At a time of changing climate and escalating energy prices, a new Heinrich Böll Foundation study is calling for a European renewables community (ERENE), tasked with ending our dependence on nuclear and fossil fuels and meeting the energy challenges of the new century. It concludes that renewables could meet all of Europe's electricity needs if the right instruments and strategies are put in place.
A press conference on the study findings will be held with the authors:
Michaele Schreyer, former European Commissioner and current Vice-president of the German European Movement Network
Lutz Mez, Head of the Environmental Policy Research Centre at the Free University of Berlin,
and with the Green energy spokespersons
Rebecca Harms, Vice President of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament
Claude Turmes, Vice President of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament
Tuesday 24 June 2008, 11 a.m.
Room ASP 1 E 3, European Parliament, Brussels
Co-hosted by Greens/EFA Group and the Heinrich Böll Foundation
Media are also invited to attend the conference preceding the press conference from 9.00 - 11 a.m. in the same room, ASP 1 E 3.
For more information see conference invitation attached.
