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Final countdown!

The EEB staff is packing and getting ready to leave to meet you all in Vienna on Monday. We’ve packed the conference website full with stuff to help you prepare and get as much out of the day as possible, including background reading, the full list of participants, twitter handles of all speakers etc. If […]

Conference is fully booked!

The conference is now fully booked. If we receive cancellations, tickets will be released to those who have signed up to the waiting list. Please note that the conference will be live-streamed. Instructions for how to tune in to follow the debate will be published on the conference website.

Fairphone to speak in circular economy session

We’re pleased to inform you that Monique Lemens will join the circular economy session at this year’s conference. Monique has a background as Senior Program Manager at The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) and recently started her new role as Value Chain Director at Fairphone.

Conference promo in Slovak

Thanks to our Slovak members, the conference flyer that our co-organizer Umweltdachverband has produced has now been translated to Slovak! Check it out on this link: www.eu-umweltbuero.at/assets/EU-Umweltbuero/Veranstaltungsprogramme/EEB-Konferenz-Save-the-date-SK.pdf

More confirmed speakers

Three more speakers are now confirmed for the EEB’s Annual Conference. For the plenary on “Translating sustainability principles into concrete policies”, the Biodiversity angle will be covered by Mark Demesmaeker (Member of the European Parliament, ECR Group, Belgium). Demesmaeker was the Rapporteur of the of the EP’s Biodiversity report adopted in January 2016. The topic […]

Registrations now open!

Registrations are now open for the EEB’s Annual Conference that will be organized together with EEB Austrian member Umweltdachverband in Vienna on Monday 26 September 2016. Confirmed speakers include the Austrian Federal Minister for the Environment Andrä Rupprechter, Ann Mettler, Head of the European Political Strategy Centre at the European Commission and Petros Fassoulas, Secretary […]