Aims of The Conference
The conference will provide an opportunity to:
consider the planned review of the SDS, explore linkages between EU and national sustainable development strategies, take stock of progress in implementation, and highlight best practice and innovative processes;
examine ways of moving towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production and greater decoupling of economic activity and growth from environmental degradation;
consider ways to promote increased public and political awareness of, and to communicate, sustainable development in the newly-enlarged EU; and
provide a platform for Sustainable Development Councils, participating in the EEAC network, to input into the review of the EU SDS.
Important outcomes should also include exchange of information/ experience among the participants and consideration of wider opportunities for SD networking (including contacts between events).
