Report from meeting on 7th July 2006

Speeches from the main event are now online.

The session on "Sustainable Technologies" met in the afternoon with only a dozen of the 50-some registered participants showing up, much to the disappointment of the moderator and speakers, who protested that sustainable development should be given a higher priority in determining future EU relations with China.
The following presentations were given in the Working Group 9: Sustainable Technologies and Services, here in PDF:

Dr. Stephan Valley: "Competitiveness and Policy Perspective"
David Rusnok from Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft: "Framework for renewable energy and CDM projects in China" The audience reaction revealed the great interest in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects qualifying under the Kyoto Protocol.
Dennis Pamlin, WWF: "Breaking the circle – a WWF perspective"

From the audience a rep. spoke from the European Wood Initiative, a cooperation project between the national wood promotion organizations in Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Norway and Sweden., www.europeanwood.org/
See also "13 September" in the list below.

A Finnish lady announced she was planning a business event to be held in parallel with the "ASEM 10th anniversary Summit meeting between the EU and Asian countries". This high-level event is mentioned in the Finnish Presidency statement from 5.7.06 reproduced here:

"As holder of the Presidency, Finland will strive to promote international discussions that could result in an ambitious regime covering all major countries with regard to climate change.....Both policy areas – energy and climate change – will be high on the agenda for the Summit meetings with third countries during Finland’s Presidency, including the ASEM 10th anniversary Summit meeting between the EU and Asian countries,"
http://www.eu2006.fi/news_and_documents/speeches/vko27/en_GB/1152081630727

See also "12 September" in the list below.

EU /China Events Coming up in September 2006:

On 9th September 2006: An interesting US / EU event is planned in Berlin, virtual and face-to-face.
From 10-11 September 2006 the Asia-Europe Business Forum (AEBF), http://www.asem6.fi/events/other_events/en_GB/aebf/ will take place in parallel with an intergovernmental summit in Helsinki.
On the 12 September 2006 an EU China event will take place in Helsinki including a high-level plenary speeches, a rep. from Nokia and a Workshop III on Sustainable Development Strategies and the following subthemes:

Sustainable Development Policy
Technologies, Services and Solutions for Sustainable Development
WWF’s Dennis Pamlin from Sweden (see also Dennis' role in the World Summit on the Information Society) showed interest in this workshop. WWF’s paper on China is on this Website.

From 13-15th September there will also be a China / EU Summit in Hamburg.
From 13-15th September there will also be a China Sourcing exhibition in Duesseldorf

From 28-29th September there will also be a China / EU Forum at this event in Berlin. At the previous event in January 2005 during the UK Presidency this document (in PDF) described the strategy for getting some commitment from China comparable to what the EU did to encourage Russia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
The Club of Rome is considering holding an event on energy in view of the fact that energy security has become such a central topic as demonstrated by the G-8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 16, 2006. That summit issued this statement on "Global Energy Security: Global Energy Challenges."

SERI is considering a China / EU dialog like this.

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