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On the eve of the French Presidency - Put the citizen in the depths of the european energy policy

Infused with that spirit, Energie-Cités has adopted several resolutions all designed to offer a link between regulatory and technical issues and society’s expectations, to make EU policies more comprehensible to citizens, to the point of being (...)

By Gérard Magnin, on 19 June 2008 | 14h27 | 1342 visits
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Citizens’ Agora on Climate Change

…this is how Professor Jeremy Rifkin – President of Foundation on Economic Trends and author of several visionary books – opened his keynote speech in front of 500 representatives of the civil society in the European Parliament’s Hemicycle in Brussels. At the sunset of the petrol era, ‘we are at (...)

By Kristina Dely, on 15 June 2008 | 10h59 | 1334 visits
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Re-imagining our cities' futures to give Europe a new lease of life

Transforming our cities to improve our lives Historically, people settled close to energy sources (water, wood and, later, coal deposits) until the electricity revolution, and subsequently oil and gas, changed the order of things. "Freed" from the constraints of local energy supplies, (...)

By Gérard Magnin, on 5 June 2008 | 15h58 | 1113 visits
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Energy Efficiency: Priority measure for Security of Supply

What is the relation between energy efficiency and security of supply? What support is needed to overcome barriers? Does financing really help? Why awareness raising is not working? Do we need more regulation? – these were the principal questions discussed jointly by hosts and contributing (...)

By Kristina Dely, on 1 June 2008 | 22h23 | 1216 visits
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