Mixing Oil and Water: COST Explores Sustainable Links in Energy and Water Management
19 January 2009 - 21 January 2009
In existing policy frameworks, energy and water policies are largely developed in isolation from one another. Little research is undertaken into the relationships and interactions between energy and water and, most importantly, how those links can be accounted for, and incorporated into, international, national and regional policy development.
Understanding the links between energy and water, especially in the context of climate change, is essential to achieve sustainable development. Crucially, concrete policy advice and tools on how the energy-water nexus can be accounted for, and managed, in water and energy policy decision-making are required to influence our future.
To examine these issues, COST is organising an invitation-only exploratory workshop in Brussels, from 19 to 21 January 2009. It is the first in a series of workshops on water and energy. The Energy-Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future takes place from 19 to 21 January 2009 at Le Châtelain Hotel, Rue du Châtelain 17, 1000 Brussels.
There will be two days of workshop discussions, concluding with a list of policy recommendations. A number of sessions will be accessible to the media. Invited participants will include representatives of EU Institutions, NGOs, the research sector and industry.
This workshop will cover several themes including scale and institutions; data sources, needs and accessibility; innovation and regulation of the private sector; and governance, regulation and management. Participants will come from across Europe, as well as from Asia, the United States and the Middle East.
Speakers on these themes include Jamie Pittock, from the Australian National University and WWF Research Associate, Trevor Bishop from the Environment Agency in the UK, Joppe Cramwinckel from Shell Exploration and Production in the Netherlands and Henrik Larsen from the DHI Institution for Water and Environment in Denmark.
More information on this invitation-only event is available on www.cost.esf.org/events. For interviews with speakers or to register for one or several sessions contact Sally Horspool,
tel: +32 (0)2 588 38 54, fax: +32 (0)2 533 38 90 or e-mail: shorspool@cost.esf.orgCOST is a precursor of advanced multidisciplinary research with a very important role for the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA).
It anticipates and complements the activities of the Framework Programmes, constitutes a “bridge” towards the scientific communities of emerging countries, increases the mobility of researchers across Europe and fosters the establishment of “Networks of Excellence” in nine key scientific domains.
It covers basic and more applied research and addresses pre-normative issues in the following scientific domains: Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences; Food and Agriculture; Forests, their Products and Services; Materials, Physics and Nanosciences; Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies; Earth System Science and Environmental Management; Information and Communication Technologies; Transport and Urban Development; Individuals, Society, Culture and Health.
Established by the Ministerial Conference in November 1971, making it the oldest and widest European intergovernmental network for cooperation in research, COST is presently used by the scientific communities of 35 European countries to cooperate in common research projects supported by national funds.
More information: www.cost.esf.org
Understanding the links between energy and water, especially in the context of climate change, is essential to achieve sustainable development. Crucially, concrete policy advice and tools on how the energy-water nexus can be accounted for, and managed, in water and energy policy decision-making are required to influence our future.
To examine these issues, COST is organising an invitation-only exploratory workshop in Brussels, from 19 to 21 January 2009. It is the first in a series of workshops on water and energy. The Energy-Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future takes place from 19 to 21 January 2009 at Le Châtelain Hotel, Rue du Châtelain 17, 1000 Brussels.
There will be two days of workshop discussions, concluding with a list of policy recommendations. A number of sessions will be accessible to the media. Invited participants will include representatives of EU Institutions, NGOs, the research sector and industry.
This workshop will cover several themes including scale and institutions; data sources, needs and accessibility; innovation and regulation of the private sector; and governance, regulation and management. Participants will come from across Europe, as well as from Asia, the United States and the Middle East.
Speakers on these themes include Jamie Pittock, from the Australian National University and WWF Research Associate, Trevor Bishop from the Environment Agency in the UK, Joppe Cramwinckel from Shell Exploration and Production in the Netherlands and Henrik Larsen from the DHI Institution for Water and Environment in Denmark.
More information on this invitation-only event is available on www.cost.esf.org/events. For interviews with speakers or to register for one or several sessions contact Sally Horspool,
tel: +32 (0)2 588 38 54, fax: +32 (0)2 533 38 90 or e-mail: shorspool@cost.esf.orgCOST is a precursor of advanced multidisciplinary research with a very important role for the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA).
It anticipates and complements the activities of the Framework Programmes, constitutes a “bridge” towards the scientific communities of emerging countries, increases the mobility of researchers across Europe and fosters the establishment of “Networks of Excellence” in nine key scientific domains.
It covers basic and more applied research and addresses pre-normative issues in the following scientific domains: Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences; Food and Agriculture; Forests, their Products and Services; Materials, Physics and Nanosciences; Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies; Earth System Science and Environmental Management; Information and Communication Technologies; Transport and Urban Development; Individuals, Society, Culture and Health.
Established by the Ministerial Conference in November 1971, making it the oldest and widest European intergovernmental network for cooperation in research, COST is presently used by the scientific communities of 35 European countries to cooperate in common research projects supported by national funds.
More information: www.cost.esf.org