Traduction de «Réseau de recherche canadien en variabilité climatique » (Français → Anglais) :

Activities shall focus on research, development and full scale demonstration of new smart energy grid technologies, back-up and balancing technologies enabling higher flexibility and efficiency, including conventional power plants, flexible energy storage, systems and market designs to plan, monitor, control and safely operate interoperable networks, including standardisation issues, in an open, decarbonised, environmentally sustainable, climate-resilient and competitive market, under normal and emergency conditions.

For the latter, this includes: understanding the determinants of health and optimising the effectiveness of healthcare provisions, support to policies empowering rural areas, researching and preserving Europe's cultural heritage and richness, promoting informed consumer choices, creating an inclusive digital eco-system based on knowledge and information, robust decision making on energy policy and in ensuring a consumer friendly European electricity grid and a transition to a sustainable energy system, supporting evidence based transport policy and foresight, support to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, ...[+++]resource efficiency initiatives and measures towards a green and sustainable economy, and cultural and socio-economic aspects of security, risk and management issues (including legal and human rights aspects).

2. Calls on the Commission to seek a 0% tariff agreement in the Doha Development Round for environmentally preferable goods and services, notably renewable energy technologies as they are preferable to energy derived from fossil fuels; calls on the Commission to work towards building a consensus within the WTO on a definition for such goods and services, but recommends, as a starting point, a specific link to climate change; stresses that the elimination of tariffs would reduce the cost of grid-connected technologies and increase the affordability of these technologies in the portfolio of generating options available to electricity uti ...[+++]lities, as well as level the playing field between some aid-financed goods and goods imported through normal market transactions; calls on the Commission, at the same time, to explore WTO-compatible mechanisms and climate friendly trade policies to address the issue of third countries which are not bound by the Kyoto Protocol;

This is a network of academics from across Canada who devote much of their research and writing to workplace issues. In the coming months we'll be asking the network to examine the latest data and to summarize a number of key issues facing Canadian businesses and workers.

16. Stresses that the Commission should seek the active participation of developing countries though its communication strategy on climate change, as well as take initiatives in the dissemination of information using ACP-EU channels; it is also important to take account of the European ultra-peripheral regions which neighbour many ACP countries and often have similar sustainable development issues to face;

Research will focus on: understanding and quantification of changes in the carbon and nitrogen cycles; the role of all sources of greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutants and their sinks in the biosphere; their effects on climate dynamics and variability, ocean and atmospheric chemistry, and their interactions; future stratospheric ozone levels and ultraviolet radiation; prediction of global climatic change and impacts; associated phenomena (e.g. the North Atlantic oscillation, El Niño and changes in sea level and ocean circulation); and mitigation and adaptation strategies.