DO NOT ASK WHAT FUTURE GENERATIONS CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THEM

The question is not if CO2 emissions should be reduced or not, but how they should be reduced. Aware that wind cannot replace fossil fuels we know that it must go hand in hand with oil and gas. At VESTAS , the world’s leading company in supplying wind turbines, they work to ensure that rising energy consumption will not increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Peter Kruse is the Senior Vice-President at VESTAS, a company which hosted a study tour for the CPMR during the latest Baltic Sea and North Sea Commissions’ Joint General Assembly, which was held in Herning (DK) on 13 June 2008. VESTAS holds 23% of the world market share and has installed more than 35,000 wind turbines in 63 countries. They install an average of one wind turbine every four hours and in 2007 their turbines generated more than 60 million MWh.

EM: M. Kruse, VESTAS is the world's leading supplier of modern energy solutions. What is the secret of your success? What are your goals for the future?...

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THE CPMR LOBBIES FOR THE CAP

Even if the CPMR is an organisation of maritime Regions, its members felt that it must be involved in the debate on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, which, just behind Cohesion Policy, represents the second most important EU budgetary redistribution mechanism within the territories.

At the end of a very intense period of studies and internal debates, the CPMR Political Bureau in Rhodes adopted a set of principles, on the basis of which the CPMR put forward some amendments to the European Commission’s legislative proposals, currently being discussed as part of the “Health Check”.

Beyond this current situation, it is the medium-term future of European support for farmers, sectors, processing industries and rural development which interest the CPMR. The internal debate will thus continue at an event on 23 October 2008 in Nantes (Pays de la Loire, France) organised by the CPMR together with the Committee of the Regions, which will be open to all institutional and economic players concerned...

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SAINT MALO: THE WORLD'S REGIONS COME TOGETHER TO TACKLE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

The Regions are first-hand witnesses to climate change on account of the way they manage their territories and related activities. It is therefore logical that they have chosen Climate Change as the main topic of the Summit organised by nrg4SD (Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development) in Saint-Malo on 29 and 30 October 2008.

- The working group behind the project, which put forward its conclusions at the nrg4SD General Assembly in Khanty-Mansiysk (Western Siberia) in May 2007, wanted to highlight the central role that regional governments play in reducing the factors responsible for climate change (mitigation) and in introducing adaptation measures...

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GET TOGETHER IN BAYONNE!

At the invitation of Mr Alain Rousset, President of Aquitaine Regional Council, the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) shall meet in Bayonne (Aquitaine, France) from 1st to 3rd October for its 2008 General Assembly.

This event will be held under the patronage of the six-month French Presidency of the Council and the
Committee of the Regions Open Days.

The General Assembly will focus on preparing CPMR’s proposals with a view to the upcoming negotiations on the participation and role of our Member Regions in the EU policies of the next decade.

The European Commission’s consultation on the reform of the EU budget; the introduction of the principle of territorial cohesion in EU primary law; changes to the Common Agricultural Policy and their impact on regional economies; the place and role of the Regions in various policies in relation to the Lisbon Agenda; the role of the Regions in the areas of energy and climate change; maritime policy and how it is to develop; the Regions’ involvement in the EU’s external policies designed to promote a globalisation process beneficial for all territories, will be the issues at the centre of the debates...

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