Past Events 2007
Ambassador Foley Addresses NATO’s Advanced Research Workshop on Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security
"Kyoto and Beyond: Can Europe and the United States Find Common Ground on Meeting the Challenge?" This was the question Ambassador Foley answered with an emphatic Yes in her speech to NATO’s Advanced Research Workshop on Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security on November 23, 2007.
At the Workshop, held in the Hungarian Parliament, Ambassador Foley underlined that the U.S. and Europe agree on the seriousness of the challenge of climate change, on the need for action, and on the need to ensure that a future post-2012 climate change framework is truly global in nature, including all major economies. In her remarks, and the Q&A that followed, the Ambassador characterized as critical the need to develop and deploy transformational energy technologies, improve energy efficiency and ensure that a new global framework is both environmentally effective and economically sound.
Coming less than two weeks before the opening of the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP-13) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bali, Indonesia, this workshop (November 21-23) offered a timely opportunity for a lively exchange of views on how best to address the challenge of climate change. Organized by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the Regional Environmental Center (REC) for Central and Eastern Europe, the Workshop drew some 80 participants -- NATO parliamentarians, academicians, scientists, and other experts in the field.