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Paris, May 18th, 2015
Hr Mogens LYKKETOFT
Président du Folketing
Folketinget
Christiansborg
1240 COPENHAGUE
Danemark
Dear Chairperson, dear colleague,
On behalf of Claude Bartolone, Chairman of the French Assemblée nationale,
I have the privilege of requesting you to appoint one member of your legislative
chamber to attend a conference organized by the Parliamentary Office for
Evaluation of Scientific Choices and Technology (OPECST). This conference,
prepared within the framework of EPTA (European Parliamentary Technology
Assessment), will be held on September 24, 2015, at Assemblée nationale, Paris.
EPTA gathers the technology assessment organizations serving European
parliaments and is chaired by OPECST in 2015.
The conference will explore how technological innovation can be used to mitigate
climate change. It will be an exciting opportunity to share viewpoints among
national parliamentarians from European Economic Area countries, prominent
French researchers, and EPTA members.
It will not only pave the way towards the COP 21 meeting to be held in Paris in
December 2015, but, at the local level, also mark the 30th anniversary of the very
first OPECST report. This anniversary will be commemorated by a formal lunch
hosted at the Hôtel de Lassay, seat of the Presidency of the Assemblée nationale.
French and foreign specialists will provide a synoptic introduction to various
perspectives of how technology can mitigate climate change, from cutting edge
energy storage, advances in CO
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conversion, to energy efficiency in buildings or
transportation. This will then open out to a broader debate. A cocktail party at the
Luxembourg Palace hosted by M. Gérard Larcher, Chairman of the Senate, will
conclude the conference.
The goal is to compare diverse national experiences, first to identify obstacles that
keep technological solutions from efficiently mitigating climate change, second to
consider how governments, and national parliaments at their own level, can
overcome such obstruction, and third, to take into account efficient ways of
enhancing citizen involvement in subsequent policies. EPTA members will have
ample opportunity to explain what they have done, or can do, to identify and
overcome deterrents to technological assessment and innovation.
Lunches at Hôtel de Lassay and Luxembourg Palace are for invited parliamentarians
only. Accommodation and transportation are at the participants’ charge.
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