Empowering Europe the Hague, July 2010
Conference Results Enriching the Planet – Empowering Europe The Hague, July 2010 Inhoud 1 Conference Report and Chair’s Conclusions Enriching the Planet – Empowering Europe 02 2 Clingendael Conference Paper Enriching the Planet – Empowering Europe 08 3 Conference Essays Increasing Scarcities of Natural Resources in the Coming Decades: Trends and Policy Options 24 Scarcity: a Story of linkages of Sustainability 30 A Sustainable and fair food System in the European Union 36 The Global Challenge of Mineral Scarcity 42 The Scarcity Issue: Energy, Raw Materials & the EU 50 4 Conference Programme Enriching the Planet – Empowering Europe 56 5 Conference Speeches Janez Potočnik, EU Commissioner for the Environment 60 Joke Schauvliege, Minister of Environment, Nature and Culture, Flanders, incoming Belgian EU Presidency 64 Tineke Huizinga, Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning, the Netherlands 68 Gerda Verburg, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, the Netherlands 70 6 Participants list Conference Enriching the Planet – Empowering Europe 74 01 1 Conference Report and Chair’s Conclusions Enriching the Planet – Empowering Europe Optimising the use of natural resources for a more sustainable economy Conference Chair: Laurens Jan Brinkhorst Rapporteurs: Louise van Schaik and Barend van Wonderen1 Key conclusions drawn under the responsibility of the Chair of the Conference held in The Hague on 26 and 27 April 2010, cf.: http://www.clingendael.nl/resourcescarcity 1 The rapporteurs would like to thank Hannah Koutstaal, Maarten lak, Gerrit Meester, Arnoud Passenier, Krijn Poppe, Jan Rood and Christine van Empel for their contributions to and review of this report. The final responsibility for the content lies with the rapporteurs and Chair of the seminar only.
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