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Last December, at the Press Club Brussels Europe, Paragon Europe, partner of the FREEWAT project, organised a joint event with Climate-KIC.
During this meeting, that gathered over seventy attendees including EU officers, Government representatives, researchers and academics, delegates from the Maltese Permanent Delegation as well as SMEs and media such as Al-Ahram News, Euractive, EU Observer, Focus Magazine and ANSA, it was announced the organisation of a major Climate Change Conference that will be held, under the auspices of the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU during May 2017.
The climate conference in Malta, co-ordinated by Cliamte KIC and Paragon Europe, will tackle plans already agreed with the Minister for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change Dr. José Herrera around the major themes for the conference: mobility and decarbonisation, circular economy, urbanisation and financial instruments to achieve them. The Climate conference will be enriched by high level speakers such as Bertrand van Ee, Senior Adviser to EIT Climate-KIC; Dr. Mike Cherrett, Director for External Partnerships at EIT Climate-KIC; Paragon Europe CEO Dr. Anton Theuma; Paragon Europe Executive Director Dr. Nadia Theuma; and Edward Vernon, Environment Unit Coordinator from Malta's Permanent Representation to the EU.
The Climate Change Conference will be the stage for Paragon Europe Executive Director to give insights into some of the projects and actions undertaken by Paragon Europe to address climate change issues in Malta including FREEWAT.
It is expected that FREEWAT and other related projects that run in Malta will be showcased during the May 2017 event to illustrate first -hand how such initiatives can concretely address water challenges and provide solutions.