Wednesday, 15 May 2013
VLADANKA AVIROVIĆ AT A CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE USE OF ENERGY IN ZAGREB
The Chairperson of the Committee on Economy of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia Ms. Vladanka Avirović participated at the Conference: Energy, Development, Democracy, Successful Approaches for a New Energy Future in South East Europe, which was held on 13 May 2013 in Zagreb, Republic of Croatia.
The Conference was a main event of the regional initiative “Public Dialogue for the Sustainable Use of Energy in South-East Europe. This was the second regional conference held in the framework of this initiative, the first conference of this kind was held in Belgrade in 2011.
The goal of the Conference was to bring together representatives of the local authorities, parliamentarians, the NGO sector, investors and businessmen from the region in order to exchange knowledge and experiences in the field of sustainable use of energy.
The Public Dialogue Initiative is implemented by the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (Serbia), the School for Democratic Leadership (Montenegro), the Academy for Political Development in cooperation with the Society for Sustainable Development Design (DOOR) (Croatia), the Centre for Research and Policy Making (Macedonia), the Albanian School of Political Studies (Albania), the European Association of Schools of Political Studies in BH (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Prishtine Institute for Political Studies (Kosovo).
The Conference covered topics such as the role of parliaments and local authorities in promoting sustainable use of energy, the contribution of civil society, and national and local success stories in this area.
The aim of the initiative is to foster capacity building and public dialogue on the sustainable use of energy between representatives of parliaments, governments, business sector, media and civil society. The specific objective of the project is to enable and increase efficiency of sustainable energy policy implementation.
The initiative and the Conference are supported by the Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Energy Efficiency, which is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.