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Corinne Lepage, Member of the European Parliament, Friends of the Earth Europe and Eurosif are pleased to invite you to the Public Debate ‘Tar sands - undermining EU Climate Ambitions?’

The Debate will be held in the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 09.30-12:30, Room: P4B001 (Paul-Henri Spaak)

The Debate will present the environmental, climate and social impacts of tar sands and discuss relevant EU policy proposals in the context of EU Climate Agenda (Fuel Quality Directive - FQD), Europe 2020 Strategy, relations with Canada as well as address the issue of EU energy security in the tar sands context.

• What are the impacts of tar sands exploration on climate, environment, indigenous people and developing countries?
• What are the current efforts and EU policy tools to reduce climate impacts of fuels?
• How to prevent heavy crude oil from undermining EU climate ambitions and development objectives?
• Are there lessons to be learned from how California adopted its Low Carbon Fuels Standard?

This high level event will bring together representatives of the European Commission, European Parliament, US and European experts, industry, international organisations, civil society members from European and developing countries including communities affected by tar sands operations in Canada.

Registration can be done via the website here.

Friends of the Earth Europe can reimburse Travel and Accommodation costs for a limited number of civil society participants.

The final date for Registration is April 30, 2010.

Programme of the Debate and Background information are available on the website. Register here.

Please contact Darek Urbaniak for additional information and assistance!

Darek Urbaniak, Friends of the Earth Europe.
tel.: +32 2 893 1021. fax: +32 2 893 1035. e-mail: darek.urbaniak@foeeurope.org

This Debate is organised under the framework of the Making Extractive Industry Work for Climate and Development Campaign with the financial assistance of the European Union.

Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns for sustainable and fair societies and for the protection of the environment,
unites more than 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups
and is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International.

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