• WG1: Democracy & Human Rights
• WG2: Economic Integration
• WG3: Environment & Energy
  • Regranting 2016
  • Regranting 2015
• WG4: Contacts between People
• WG5: Social & Labour Policies and Social Dialogue
• Regranting Projects

Introduction

EaP CSF Working Group “Environment, climate change and energy security” deals with the main issues on the agenda of EaP Thematic Platform 3. It is also involved in the Panel on Environment and Climate Change under Platform 2.

The Working Group is open to participation of colleagues from Working Group 2 “Economic integration and convergence with EU policies”, as both Working Groups (and respective Thematic Platforms) deal with sustainability issues such as Green Economy.

The Panel on Environment and Climate Change of the Eastern Partnership aims at fostering cooperation and knowledge exchange on environmental governance issues, climate change, and green economy.

Goals of the Working Group

The following content related goals of the Working Group were agreed on by its members:

1. Energy security and climate change: 
   Shape a complex integrated sustainable energy policy for the EaP region, which takes into account national interests and aims to improve environmental protection (incl. biodiversity), energy efficiency, as well as the capacity to face climate change and to mitigate dependency on energy imports or on one energy carrier.
   
   
2. Environment, biodiversity, and agriculture:
   Support the integration of environmental aspects into all national policies of EaP countries (e.g. industry, transport, regional development, budget, (organic) agriculture, forestry, EU acquisition compliance, in particular through promotion of Strategic Environmental Assessment
   
   
3. Information, education, capacity building, and awareness raising: 
   Implement the principles of education for sustainable development in national educational systems, promote the transfer of knowledge from EU to EaP countries, and conduct a broad public awareness raising campaign on energy efficiency and renewable energies

Coordinators

Plamena Borissova, Institute for Environmental Strategies, EU Coordinator | wg3@eap-csf.eu 

Nastassia Bekish, Belarus Green Network, EaP Coordinator | wg3@eap-csf.eu

Reporting and News

WG3 Annual Meeting Report, September 2016

WG3 Annual Meeting Photos, September 2016