The EU Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water - Highlighting the Critical Issues for the UK
11th January 2012 — 09:45 to 16:10
Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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The aim of the conference is to raise awareness and brief a wide range of stakeholders on the EU’s Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water process. It will in particular focus on a number of the technical issues that have been raised by the process including: the strategic vision for Europe’s water, water scarcity, research and innovation, ecosystem goods and services, climate change impacts, closer integration of WFD- CAP objectives and water footprinting a view to scoping the issues that enables responses from participating organisations and individuals.
The objectives of the conference are to:
- To raise awareness and brief a wide range of stakeholders about the EU Blueprint for saving Europe’s Water Process and the UK’s contribution to this
- To cover the main themes highlighted by the Blueprint process including
- the strategic vision for Europe’s water
- water scarcity
- research and innovation
- ecosystem goods and services
- climate change impacts
- closer integration of WFD- CAP objectives
- water footprinting
- To scope the implications for UK plc – seeking and capturing the delegates inputs
- To prepare a short report highlighting the main issues arising from these themes
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Conference inputs
- Delegate Notes 2012-01-09 13:02:29.155743
Conference outputs
- A Blueprint to safeguard Europes waters I, Peter Gamelltoft, European Commission 2012-01-12 10:48:16.334183
- A Blueprint to safeguard Europes waters II, Peter Gamelltoft, European Commission 2012-01-12 10:48:56.523745
- A Defra Perspective on the Blueprint, Sonia Phippard, Defra 2012-01-12 10:30:05.378687
- Blueprint: CAP and WFD, Claire McCamphill, Defra 2012-01-12 10:23:56.635898
- Blueprint FEEDBACK from delegates, None 2012-01-26 11:39:42.679682
- Climate change and the WFD, Julian Wright, Environment Agency 2012-01-12 10:25:30.763215
- Ecosystem goods and services and its application to policy, Robert Bradburne, Defra 2012-01-12 10:29:31.826497
- Reflections on current inputs to the House of Lords Select Committee Inquiry into EU Freshwater Policy, Bob Harris, University of Sheffield 2012-01-12 10:28:10.399360
- Research and Innovation; opportunities and requirements, Alan Jenkins, CEH 2012-01-12 10:21:38.670775
- Rose Timlett, WWF-UK 2012-01-12 10:26:43.486236
- The EU Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water - Highlighting the Critical Issues for the UK Programme, None 2011-10-28 09:36:37.633135
- The EU Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water - Highlighting the Critical Issues for the UK Programme, None 2011-10-28 09:37:39.133119
- The EU Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water - Highlighting the Critical Issues for the UK Programme, None 2011-10-28 09:35:23.349025
- Water Scarcity, Colin Fenn, CFonstream 2012-01-12 10:28:44.495878
