The European Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas, takes part in the opening of the FEPORTS projects stand at Green Week

La Consellera de Cooperación y Participación, Gema Amor, visita el stand que promociona los proyectos de Feports en la semana verde de la Dirección General de Medio Ambiente de la UE.

The stand of the Fundación Comunidad Valenciana – Región Europea is visited by over one thousand environmental specialists from all over Europe.

Brussels, 3 June 2005.- The Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas has taken part in the opening of the Feports project stand during Green Week held in Brussels from 21 May to 3 June. This annual event is organised by the General Directorate of the Environment of the European Commission.

At the opening, Dimas confirmed that “the objective of Brussels is to double the environmental budget, support improved energy efficiency, promote renewable energies, reduce greenhouse gases and transfer technological advances to the environment in order to slow down climate change which is wrecking havoc on the planet.”

Apart from the European Commissioner, the Regional Minister for Co-operation and Participation, Gema Amor, also learned about the projects carried out by Feports. The Regional Minister visited the stand of the Fundación Comunidad Valenciana – Región Europea for promoting environmental initiatives carried out in the Valencia Comunita such as the Simpyc and Hada projects.

Fundación Comunidad Valenciana Región Europea

This stand, under the title Life”Storm”ing in Climate Change, exhibits LIFE-Environment projects among others and is managed by the Fundación Comunidad Valenciana-Región Europea. The Valencia Community leads in the amount of Life-Environment funding received as the recipient of 41% of all funds received by Spain in 2004.

This year Green Week is analysing climate change from different perspectives, such as the future economy, how the topic is covered in the media and the capacity to adapt to high temperatures as well as best way to present initiatives in environmental projects especially within the LIFE Programme of the DG of the Environment of the European Commission.

The aim of Green Week is to encourage people to ‘think out loud’ about how citizens, entrepreneurs, legislators, non-government organisations, the authorities, teachers, scientists and young people can really change their environmental behaviour. Over the week experts come together in order to offer their expertise to the European Commission for developing environmental policy.

As well as an extensive programme of speeches, Green Week also has an exhibition with 68 stands highlighting best practice, projects and is attended by different institutions, regions, companies and organisations such as the Valencia Community and others such as the European Environment Agency, WWF International, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Joint Research Centres of the European Commission.

Green Week is aimed at civil servants with local, regional and national decision-making powers, businesses - both multi-nationals and small-medium sized companies, business associations and non-government organisations. Some 4,000 people are expected to attend the event.

Exhibition stands have become a platform for consolidating existing contacts and making new ones that will pave the way to future European project groups, such as those involved in the calls for proposals of the LIFE programme, with the Fundación Comunidad Valenciana – Región Europea as an ideal partner for international dissemination given their direct relationship with public administration, chambers of commerce, financial institutions, local development agencies and other relevant social players and therefore, a wide network of contacts.

The reason the Fundación Comunidad Valenciana – Región Europea is promoting this event in Brussels is to maintain the Valencia Community’s national leadership in LIFE-Environment funding in the next call for proposals 2006 in order to set up environmentally innovative pilot projects.

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