🌐 Business networks and policymakers come together to discuss how policies can enable businesses to scale up solutions to deal with the ‘polycrises’, including the energy crisis, while

🌐 Business networks and policymakers come together to discuss how policies can enable businesses to scale up solutions to deal with the ‘polycrises’, including the energy crisis, while increasing the competitive sustainability of the EU’s economy moving forward. 🤝 Speakers include: Yvon Slingenberg, Director of Strategy, Analysis and Planning, Directorate General for Climate Action, European Commission Ruth Reichstein, Policy Advisor, I.D.E.A, European Commission Pascal Canfin, Chair of the Environment Committee, European Parliament, Renew Nicolás González Casares, Member of the European Parliament, S&D Tomas Lindman, Deputy Director General for International Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Sweden Peter Wittoeck, Head of Climate Change Department, Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Belgium Ana Struna Bregar, Chief Executive Officer, CER Slovenia Bjørn Kjærand Haugland, Chief Executive Officer, Skift Business Climate Leaders Gonzalo Saenz de Miera, President, Spanish Green Growth Group, and Global Director of Climate Change and Alliances, Iberdrola Nina Ekelund, Executive Director, Haga Initiative Ondřej Boreš, Corporate Affairs Director, VELUX Czech Republic Sabine Nallinger, Managing Director, Stiftung Klimawirschaft Rasmus Valanko, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, We Mean Business Coalition Martin Porter, Executive Chair, CISL Ursula Woodburn, Head of EU office, CLG Europe (Chair)

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How do you empower an entire metropolis to transition towards more localized living in a post-petroleum era? Founder Ross Moster and board members Ann Pacey and Rand Chatterjee of Village Vancouver (B.C.) Transition Society view Vancouver as a network of neighborhood-sized villages. They encourage neighbors to get to know each other. Projects arise from these connections: recycling depot, dinner groups, seed libraries. Their invitation: "Have a desire to create a happier, more livable future for the next generation...and to have fun while you're at it?" Published on Feb 26, 2016

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