Mr Steen GADE MP
President
Climate, Energy and Building Committee
Folketinget
Kingdom of Denmark
Rome & Vienna, 7
th
October 2014
Dear Mr GADE,
Re: Invitation to
EU Energy Policy Framework for 2030 and National Legislation
- GLOBE
Europe 2014 Conference - Rome, 21 November 2014
We write on behalf of GLOBE Europe to invite you to our Annual Conference, which this year
will be hosted by the Italian Parliament and discuss Energy Policy in Europe.
The European Union will agree its climate and energy targets for the post‐2020 period up to
2030 under the Italian Presidency. This is important in order to reduce Europe’s dependence on
fossil fuel imports, create investor certainty in Europe’s low carbon industries, and frame
Europe's ambition for the global climate deal to be reached in Paris in late 2015.
The European Council of 23-24 October is expected to serve as the landing point to agree the
key elements of the 2030 Climate and Energy Package. In turn, this agreement will shape the
position of the European Union at UNFCCC COP20 in Lima next December.
On 21 November GLOBE Europe will dedicate its annual 2014 Strategy Meeting, hosted by the
President of the Environment Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Hon. Ermete
Realacci MP, to this important EU decision, in order to:
Raise awareness about the design of the package and its national and regional
implications, as well as about the evolution of the negotiations in Council;
Provide national legislators of the Member States of the European Union with a platform
for discussion between colleagues from other national parliaments;
Help them influence national Governments' positions in Council to ensure that the GHG
emission reductions and energy efficiency targets of the Package are aligned with the
EU's climate objectives by 2050.
GLOBE - The Global Legislators Organisation
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