Press Release: Green Week 2009: Climate change – act and adapt

With a new international climate agreement due to be finalised at the Copenhagen conference in December, climate change was the natural focus for the European Commission's Green Week 2009 conference which took place from 23 to 26 June, 2009. Under the slogan 'act and adapt', Green Week, the biggest annual conference devoted to European environment policy, examined the multi-faceted challenges of reducing EU and global greenhouse gas emissions and of adapting to the climate change that is already under way. Eight of the sessions tried to come up with a realistic vision of how a low-carbon world in 2050 would look. Over 4,000 participants from Europe and beyond attended the three-day event. Commission President José Manuel Barroso gave the keynote speech at the closing session on 26 June, which looked ahead at prospects for the Copenhagen agreement.