Memo: Preparation Environment Council, 10 October 2011

The first Environment Council under the Polish Presidency will be held on 10 October in Luxembourg. Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik and Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard will represent the European Commission. The Council is expected to adopt conclusions on four issues: the UN climate conference in Durban starting in late November; the evaluation of the Sixth Environmental Action Programme, adopted by the Commission in August; the preparations for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ("Rio +20") to be held in Rio De Janeiro, on 4-6 June 2012; and the next meeting of the Basel Convention on controlling transboundary movements of hazardous waste, to be held in Colombia on 17-21 October. Among the AOB points, the Commission will present the recently adopted Roadmap to a Resource-Efficient Economy.

European Commission: Memo/11/672: Statement by Connie Hedegaard European Commissioner for Climate Action on the EU's progress towards meeting its Kyoto Protocol target http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/672&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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