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SUMMARY:7th edition of the Silesia 2030 Conference ‘The dark side of the European Green Deal’
DESCRIPTION:Contaminated rivers\, sick children\, tons of e-waste\, high emissions\, exploitation of African miners by Chinese mine owners – this is the dark side of the European Green Deal. \nThis is the title of the seventh edition of the Silesia 2030 international conference\, which will be held on Wednesday\, March 22\, in room 6B1 with the participation of Polish and foreign experts.  \nThe Silesia 2030 series of debates is held on the initiative of MEP Grzegorz Tobiszowski. \nClimate policy leads the European Union towards climate neutrality\, i.e. zero emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. It translates into renewable energy sources\, electric cars – clean Europe protecting the climate. The goals sound noble. However\, the Green Deal requires large amounts of raw materials\, and the EU has either little or no resources\, mainly because their acquisition is connected with environmental degradation and high energy intensity. In many cases\, thousands of tons of rock need to be crushed and incinerated to obtain 1 kilogram of sought element. Mining of other elements require use of acids and chemicals\, which are discharged into rivers after the process is completed. The energy required for these activities is produced from coal\, without respecting EU standards\, resulting in huge emissions of greenhouse gases. \n  \nThe European Commission boasts of decreasing emissions within the EU. Meanwhile\, global emissions are still growing\, partly in order to satisfy the requirements and needs of the EU green transition. This is an environmental aspect.  \nNevertheless\, there is also a social agenda – people living in environmentally degraded regions\, third world countries who are treated as electronic waste scrapyards\, miners working in extremely difficult conditions for several hours a day without a day off\, for Chinese mine owners. \n  \nIt is China that is the hegemon in the raw materials market – especially rare earth elements used in electronic appliances\, renewable sources of energy or electric cars. China supplies the EU with 90% of these elements! In the case of many other raw materials\, imports from third countries reach 90-100%! This is an extremely dangerous situation\, which could result in the collapse of the entire climate policy in the event of interruptions in supply chains. \nThe economic issue is also extremely important. Huge demand for raw materials increases their prices\, thus making the energy transition more and more expensive. Over the past two years\, the price of lithium in Poland has increased fifteenfold! With such rises\, the purchase of an electric car will soon not be possible even for the middle class. \n  \nThe authorities of the European Union and many member states do not seem to see all these problems. Therefore\, we would like to discuss these issues during the 7th edition of the Silesia 2030 Conference in Brussels. Without ideology and demagogy\, supported by reliable and substantive voices of scientists\, we want to show – in the heart of the European Union – also the dark side of the European Green Deal. Our goal is to provoke reflection – whether such climate policy really protects the climate. \nWhen: Wednesday @ 10:00 – 12:30  \nWhere: SPAAK 6B1 \nAgenda: \nOpening of the conference “The dark side of the European Green Deal” @ 10:00 \nOpening remarks @ 10:05 \n\nGrzegorz Tobiszowski\, MEP\, initiator of the Silesia Conference \n\nSpeech and Presentation @ 10:30  \n\nDr. Tomasz Rogala\, President of the EURACOAL and Polish mining Group \n\nSpeech and Presentation @ 11:00 \n\nProf. Krzysztof Galos\, Director of the Institute of Mineral and Energy Economy of the Polish Academy of Sciences\n\nSpeech @ 11:30 \n\nProf. Adam Smoliński\, Scientific Secretary of the GIG\n\nPress briefing @ 12:00 \nEnd of Conference @ 12:30
URL:https://ecrgroup.eu/event/7th_edition_of_the_silesia_2030_conference_the_dark_side_of_the_european_gr/
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