
Transnational meeting of Climate Action Coordinators of the EU Macro-region Strategies 10 March 2022, between 13:00-16:00 CET, online webinar in Zoom
In November 2017 in Budapest the EU Macro-region Strategies climate coordinators met first time and exchanged experience how to how to build up regional governance on climate and how to best address challenges related to climate change at macro-region level. In order to keep us and our stakeholders updated and learn from each other, the CBSS again takes initiative to arrange, as one of the tasks of INTERREG BSP CAMS project platform, a half-a-day online meeting to share the success stories how to build resilience to CC, engage and build capacity of various stakeholders to implement EU climate policy and build resilience of countries and communities in EU MRS.
Agenda of the Zoom webinar
12:50-13:00 Participants sign into webinar space in Zoom
13:00-13:10 Welcome and purpose of the meeting – Valdur Lahtvee, Advisor of the Council of Baltic Sea States Secretariat (CBSS)
13:10-13:30 Mainstreaming climate in EUSBSR Policy Areas – Kirsi Ahlman, Deputy Director of Centrum Balticum, Let´s Communicate! project, EUSBSR
13:30-14.00 Climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and natural hazard management in EUSALP – Wolfgang Lexer, Environment Agency Austria, member EUSALP AG8 on behalf of Dr. Florian Rudolf-Miklau, Head of Division Torrent and Avalanche Control and Protection Forest Policy, Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism of Austria, Co-leader of EUSALP AG8
14:00-14:30 Managing Natural risks and building Climate resilience in EUSDR – Dr. Laszlo Balatonyi, Coordinator of PA5 of EUSDR, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Head of Urban Water Management Unit at General Directorate of Water Management of Hungary, and senior advisor at National University of Public Service.
14:30-14:40 Break
14:40-15:10 Responding to climate change in EUSAIR – Mr. Mitja Bricelj, Secretary of Environment Directorate / Water Department of the Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning of Slovenija, Coordinator of Environment Quality PA of EUSAIR.
15:10-15:30 Improving Renovation wave with Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Synergies in BSR – Mr. Antti Roose, Senior Expert of Tartu Regional Energy Agency, Manager of INTERREG BSR CAMS Project.
15:30-16:00 Discussion on how to exchange experiences and disseminate the outcomes of climate work of EU MRS. All participants
16:00 Meeting ends
Participation open to networks and stakeholders of EU MRS.
Intrested to participate? Send request to e-mail: valdur.lahtvee@cbss.org