ESDN Conferences
A look at the history of the ESDN reveals that annual conferences have played a prominent role in facilitating networking between European SD practitioners and policy advisors. This section of the website provides a one-stop-shop documentation of all ESDN Conferences so far. Please click on one of the conferences for more details:
Vienna 2013: Vienna+10: National Sustainable Development Strategies in Europe – Taking stock, new developments and future challenges
Copenhagen 2012: Rio+20 and its implications for Sustainable Development Policy at the EU and national level
ESDN Conference 2011 - Framing and Focussing: European Resource Policies in the Context of Sustainable Development, Szentendre/Hungary, 27-29 June 2011
The ESDN Conference 2011 took place in Szentendre (near Budapest) in Hungary on 27-29 June 2011. The conference was organized by the ESDN in cooperation with the Hungarian EU Presidency.
The conference had two main objectives:
- to broaden the discussion on resource policies in Europe, advocating a more comprehensive approach from a sustainable development perspective (e.g. addressing the link between resource efficiency and the rebound effect, tackling cross-sectoral pressures and challenges resulting from resource availability and accessibility and exploitation/utilization patterns, inter-relationship between resources, governance challenges), and
- to develop recommendations for the EU and Member States on integrated resource policies in the context of sustainable development, particularly with regard to the Europe 2020 flagship initiative, “A resource-efficient Europe” (COM(2011) 21), and the Road Map that will be developed to implement this flagship initiative.
The conference comprised three sessions:
- Session 1: Resource policies in Europe – framing of key issues in the context of sustainable development
- Session 2: Parallel working groups – different dimensions of resource policies in Europe
- Session 3: Developing recommendations for the EU and Member States level
Programme & Proceedings
Conference Proceedings (PDF, 958 kB)
Conference
Programme (PDF, 502 kB)
List of partcipants (PDF, 330 kB)
Discussion & background paper
Conference Discussion Paper (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Documentation of keynotes and other presentations
-- 28 June 2011 --
Session 1: Resource policies in Europe – framing of key issues in the context of sustainable development
- Elisabeth Freytag & Wolfram Tertschnig, ESDN Co-chairs, Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management: "Objectives of the Conference"
- Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-Chair, International Resource Panel, UNEP: "Resources as subject of economic, social and ecological systems - challenges for an integrated resource approach in Europe" (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment Agency (EEA): "Perspectives and challenges to move forward in resource policy in Europe" (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Miranda Schreurs, Chair of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC) & Professor of Environmental Policy at Free University of Berlin, Germany: "Resources as subject of policies in Europe - key issues in the context of sustainable development and the question of consistency" (PDF, 35 kB)
- Helen Mountford, Deputy Director of Environment, OECD: "Policy instruments for resource policy: The resource policy approach of the Green Growth Strategy" (PDF, 527 kB)
- Carina Vopel , Strategy Department, DG Environment, European Commission: "The policy approach of the Europe 2020 Strategy: Flagship initiative 'A resource-efficient Europe'" (PDF, 428 kB)
Session 2: Working groups – different dimensions of resource policies in Europe
- Working group discussions: Recommendations for resource policies in Europe
- WG 1 "Innovation dimension": Inge Lardinois (Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Netherlands) PDF
(184 kB); Luisa Prista (DG Research & Innovation, European Commission) PDF
(602 kB)
- WG 2 "Security of supply/resource security": Robert Holnsteiner (Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, Austria) PDF
(1.2 MB)
- WG 3 "Ecological and social rucksacks and rebounds": Tibor Farago (Hon. Prof. St. Istvan University, Hungary; Representative of Hungarian Society of Nature Conservationists) PDF
(72 kB)
- WG 4 "Resource policies and governance challenges": Daniel Wachter (Federal Office for Spatial Development, Switzerland) PDF
(44 kB)
- Panel discussion: How are key stakeholders driving the agenda on resource policies and management in Europe?
- Luisa Prista, Head of Unit Environmental Technologies, DG Research & Innovation
- Salla Ahonen, Director Environmental Policy, Nokia
- Jeremy Wates, Secretary General, European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
- Marta Szigeti Bonifert, Executive Director, Regional Environmental Center (REC) for Central and Eastern Europe PDF
(739 kB)
- Ivan Gyulai, Director, Ecological Institute for Sustainable Development, Hungary
- Interlude: Sustainable consumption in Europe - update on two FP7 research projects & their link to ESDN
- André Martinuzzi (ESDN Office & Research Institute for Managing Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics): RESPONDER PDF
(1.5 MB)
- Gerald Berger (ESDN Office & Research Institute for Managing Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics): CORPUS PDF
(1.3 MB)
-- 29 June 2011 --
Session 3: Developing recommendations for the EU and Member States level
- Resource policy strategies and initiatives in EU Member States: Objectives, measures, instruments, processes
- Christopher Manstein, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria PDF
(39 kB)
- Sauli Rouhinen, Ministry of the Environment, Finland PDF
(403 kB)
- Birgit Schwenk, Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany PDF
(174 kB)
- Erzsebet Gergely, Ministry of Rural Development, Hungary PDF
(1.9 MB)
- Inge Lardinois, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Netherlands PDF
(64 kB)
ESDN Conference participants' input:
Photos
Click here for a photo documentation of the ESDN Szentendre Conference.
Ghent 2010: Towards an Economy compatible with Sustainable Development Principles
Prague 2009: Options and Opportunities for the future EU Sustainable Development Strategy
Paris 2008: Coordinating SCP and CSR policies with Sustainable Development Strategies
Berlin 2007: European Sustainability Berlin 2007
Salzburg 2006: Sustainable Development goes Mozart
Windsor 2005: EU sustainable development networking event
Kinsale 2004: Comhar Conference
Vienna 2003: Sustainable Development in an enlarged Union
The Hague 2002: National Strategies for Sustainable Development: “Facts, Faces and Future Challenges”
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