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CALL FOR PAPERS：The EU and China – Partners for a Green World
2011-11-22
2125INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
The EU and China – Partners for a Green World
Thursday, 19 & Friday, 20 April 2012, Brussels
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 11 December 2011
Identifying opportunities for, and hurdles to, EU-China cooperation over attempts to make the world economy greener is the topic of an upcoming international conference organised jointly by the College of Europe and the Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation. By bringing together researchers, policy-makers and business operators, the conference aims to facilitate the formation of policy and business partnerships between China and the EU. The sectors concerned include agriculture, manufacturing, energy, urbanisation and mobility, and horizontal issues such as trade, technology transfers and the role of civil society will be addressed.
The necessity for close collaboration between these two global players stems from their combined economic weight and their benchmarking roles in addressing the issues of climate change and resource scarcity. Demand for global resources is indeed increasing, as demand levels in emerging economies are starting to converge with those of advanced economies. The world is therefore confronted with faster resource exhaustion and climate change, which translate into price rises, increasing economic rivalries and political tensions, as well as ecological damage. Combined, this has a profound effect upon vulnerable countries, located primarily in Africa and in Asia.
As two dominant global players, China and the EU have a decisive role to play in the shaping of a new global pattern of production and consumption based on three pillars: resource and energy efficiency, renewable energies and consumption moderation. Multilateral negotiations concerning the assessment of potential risks, the magnitude of efforts and their timing, the apportionment of responsibilities among players and concerning the types of mechanisms continue. Meanwhile, the EU and China have to do their own homework, exploiting to the full their respective economic systems (the EU 2020 Strategy and the 12th Five Year Plan). But they would also gain by working together: exchanging experiences and building partnerships would indeed lead to better results at home and at the global level. This is the rationale for the planned conference.
This high-level conference will be organised in collaboration with our distinguished Chinese partners and will take place on 19-20 April 2012 in Brussels. The conference intends to attract policy-makers, representatives of businesses and enterprises, local actors, think tanks, scholars and civil society to exchange positions, discuss policy proposals and develop areas for further research and cooperation. A policy dialogue exploring the state of play of negotiations, the achievements, the hurdles and the perspectives for further cooperation will be followed by six panels. Additionally, the Conference aims at establishing a long-term network, with the purpose of maintaining a biannual active platform for bilateral exchange and communication. The topics of the six panels include:
· Public diplomacy and civil society dialogue in relation to green economy, environment protection and climate change;
· Trade and IPR in relation to green economy;
· Green urbanisation;
· Green manufacturing;
· Renewable and nuclear energy;
· Green agriculture.
Papers are called to cover the following issues on the six panels mentioned above:
· The current situation in China/the EU;
· Differences between the EU and China in their policy/approaches/positions in the field;
· The existing problems; what needs to be done to solve the problems;
· The advantages and disadvantages the EU/China has in coping with the problems in the field;
· Cooperation developed between the EU and China in the field, lessons and experience to be learnt;
· Prospect for the future.
Please submit paper proposals of approximately 500 words along with a brief CV to both Professor Jing Men (jing.men@coleurope.eu) and Mr Gino Brunswijck (gino.brunswijck@coleurope.eu) no later than 11 December 2011. All proposals will be reviewed and the organisers will confirm acceptance by 6 January 2011. Participants are expected to provide complete copies of their papers, which should be around 7,000 words, in electronic format by 15 March 2012.
http://www.reseau-asie.com/media2/appels-a-contributions/europe-china-environment-call/
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