In the process of EU accession, negotiations regarding Chapter 27, dealing with environment and climate change, are among most serious issues and least aligned chapters. Member of Team Europe Aleksandar Macura is one of the participants of debate on the impact of climate change on the pace of Serbia’s EU accession, organised by the weekly magazine Vreme and Heinrich Bel Foundation.
What are the views of Serbian public on climate change? What is the influence of political decisions in the area of environment on the course of negotiations? To what extent is this a “technical” or “political” issue? What are the economic costs of such an alignment? What is climate policy’s relation to all the other areas, especially to Chapter 15 dealing with energy? What is Serbian energy balance like, and what is Serbian impact on CO2 emission? To what extent is the issue of climate change crucial for the negotiations with EU?
In late October, European Council agreed the 2030 framework for climate and energy policies, including a cut of at least 40 percent in greenhouse gas emissions.
Is Serbia capable of achieving the 2020 and 2030 goals set out before EU Member States by the Union? What are the consequences of the insufficiently active climate policy? Participants in the debate, hailing from relevant institutions, NGO sector and international organisation, will try to provide answers to a series of strategic questions.
Besides Aleksandar Macura, the debate is participated in by Danijela Bozanic of Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, Vladimir Djurdjevic of Faculty of Physics of University of Belgrade, and Damjan Rehm Bogunovic of Heinrich Bel Foundation.
Debate takes place on 19 November 2014 at 18:00, in the Science Club of the Centre for the Promotion of Science, 5/II Knez Mihailova st.
