In the context of the "Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean", a ministerial conference on water will be held on 22 December in Jordan.

The Ministerial Conference on Water held on 22 December 2008 on the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan marked the speeding up of the issue of water management and the first important step for the implementation of the decisions made by Heads of State and Government on 13 July 2008 in Paris for the Union for the Mediterranean.

Experts from the Mediterranean-rim countries will discuss ways to implement the integrated management of coastal zones in the Mediterranean basin.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the current President of the European Council, welcomes the adoption of the energy-climate package on first reading by the European Parliament.

The 187 signatory countries of the Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol met for two weeks in Poznań, Poland, to decide on the final steps to be taken to reach an agreement on a new treaty by the end of 2009.

The European seminar held in Brest addresses the conservation and exploitation issues of ecosystems in maritime areas under national sovereinty as well as in high seas.

In the first week, numerous speakers insisted that fighting climate change must remain the main priority at national and international level, despite the financial crisis.

This conference, to be held in Paris from 8 to 10 December 2008, aims to increase awareness among European States of the means of prevention against all forms of terrorism involving nuclear and radiological material.

This symposium is being organised by the National Institute for Transport and Transport Safety (INRETS), in partnership with scientific and institutional trans-national networks.

The Council of ministers for the environment and sustainable development is meeting in Brussels on 4 December to review the energy-climate legislative package and prepare for the international negotiations at the climate change conference in Poznań.

On 4 December in Brussels, Jean-Louis Borloo, the French Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning, and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the French Minister of State for Ecology, presided over the Council of the EU environment ministers.
 

The plenary session of the EU network for the implementation and enforcement of Community environmental law (IMPEL) takes place from 3 to 5 December in Clermont-Ferrand.

After Leipzig, the Cities Forum in Montpellier aims to be a key stage in sustainable urban development.

From the first day of the Poznań conference, on 1 December, Africa and the European Union adopted an important joint declaration on climate change.

The Euro-Japanese symposium on innovative eco-technologies will take place on 2 and 3 December at the Pollutec show in Lyon.

The French Presidency of Council of the European Union is organising a seminar on European energy security on 1 December 2008. This seminar is not open to the press.

The Poznań conference, organised under the auspices of the United Nations, aims to continue the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and to further negotiations on the multilateral climate change regime beyond 2012.

The Poznań conference, organised under the auspices of the United Nations, aims to continue the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and to further negotiations on the multilateral climate change regime beyond 2012.

A European conference dedicated to climate change and natural disaster prevention is being held on 27 and 28 November in Paris, as part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This conference will allow economic players that use market levers - investment, purchase, norm establishment and performance assessment - to debate a joint plan of action on the basis of voluntary initiatives, to accelerate the implementation of the EU's objectives for 2020.

The informal meeting of European ministers for regional development and cohesion policy held in Marseilles concluded successfully with the unanimous adoption of a new stage of the territorial agenda.

The urban development ministers met today in Marseilles to discuss the "sustainable and inclusive city" and adopted a final communiqué.

This conference on the consequences of chemical pollution on the development of the child will take place on 25 November in Paris.

The national parliaments of the 27 Member States of the European Union and the European Parliament are meeting in Strasbourg for a new meeting on energy and sustainable development.

The French Centre for Farm Machinery, Rural Engineering, Water & Forests) is organising a european symposium this 20 and 21 November at the Paris Institute of Oceanography to explore the relationship between Water and Society through the notion of sustainable developments.

Dominique Bussereau, the French Minister of State for Transport, concluded the aviation summit one 19 November, held within the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The European civil aviation summit organised in Bordeaux from 17-19 November will bring together high-level national and European aviation officials and private stakeholders in the sector with the objective of managing the environmental impact of air transport.

The 2nd European Groundwater Conference is taking place in Paris from 13-15 November 2008.

From 12 to 14 November, the "Jobs for nature" forum in Lyons will bring together managers of natural areas from various European countries.

The international ministerial conference on the Arctic aims to raise public awareness on the urgent need to conduct scientific research in the Arctic to protect the environment.