date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:13:38 +0100 from: "Marjan Minnesma" subject: FW: Latest version of ENSEMBLES WP structure to: "Bert Metz" , "Mike" Dear Mike and Bert, I hope you had some chance to sit together and think about how to organise or get together to organise workpackage 2 of EFIEA. I would be happy to meet you anywhere in Europe, and preferably in the coming month, as I would not like to loose too much time in getting some things off the ground before the summer. Please read Richards remarks as well, which are in a way indirect criticisms on EFIEA, and see if it is of any use for us. Friendly Marjan Mrs. mr.drs. M.E. Minnesma MBA Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) De Boelelaan 1087 1081 HV Amsterdam tel: +31 20 444 9597 fax: +31 20 444 9553 www.vu.nl/ivm -----Original Message----- From: Bettina Menne [SMTP:BME@who.it] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:29 PM To: 'Richard Tol'; Bettina Menne Cc: Marjan Minnesma Subject: RE: Latest version of ENSEMBLES WP structure Richard for your explanation: Within the European Ministerial Conference cycle I have to organize at the next Environment and Health Ministries conference (Budapest, June, 2004) a ROUND-TABLE on energy, sustainable development and health. For this I am in charge of the development of a short "background document" with evidence based information on this topic. The issue is interesting for us under four aspects: How does energy generation, distribution and transmission affect human health ? -Internalization of external costs -Includes high concerns such as EMF, nuclear waste, etc How do current and future energy policies affect health? -HIA and promotion of win-win strategies How can we deal with energy poverty? -E.g. fuel poverty initiative in the United Kingdom How can the health sector become more energy efficient? Hope this helps Thanks again Bettina -----Original Message----- From: Richard Tol [[1]mailto:tol@dkrz.de] Sent: 07 March 2003 12:17 To: Bettina Menne Cc: Marjan. Minnesma@Ivm. Vu. Nl Subject: RE: Latest version of ENSEMBLES WP structure > Dear Richard first of all do you know of any project which looks more into > details at energy impacts and security? I've been trying to push EFIEA2 in that direction -- but, although most people see the connection between oil and security, and between oil and climate, so far most people are blind to the connection between oil and climate -- silly really -- a lot of Arabs really hate us, and the only thing that restrains them is that we buy their stuff -- if we decide to use solar power instead, there'll be economic misery and much less restraint in Arabia there's also an overlooked link between dislocated people (e.g., sea level rise) and terrorism