PANEL 2: SOCIAL DIALOGUE – THE DEVELOPMENT OF COAL REGIONS THROUGH THE PRISM OF TERRITORIAL PLANS FOR A FAIR TRANSITION Featured

(hybrid session open to the media)

The discussion will focus on the different perspectives, alternatives for jobs and business in the decades of just transition and beyond, the opportunities that TJTPs give, including innovation and research, the capacity to implement successfully future projects and the potential for a positive impact on the community

Featuring:

• Mr Sander HAPPAERTS, DG REGIO Policy Officer - Just Transition  - DOWNLOAD PDF
• Assoc. Prof. Lefteris Topaloglou, former Executive Director of the Regional Association of Local Governments of Western Macedonia; (Kozani as the first region with approved TJTP in the EU);
• Plamen Barakov, Deputy Mayor of Galabovo Municipality;
• Ognyan Atanasov - Vice President of the CITUB;
• Judith Kirton‑Darling​, Deputy General Secretary, industriAll European Trade Union
• Lora Lyubenova, Chief Expert Economic and Social Affairs Directorate, ESC;
• Vera Petkantchin - Junior Achievement Bulgaria;
• Apostol Dyankov,  Head of Climate and Energy Program of WWF - Bulgaria,
• Sylwia Borkowska, (DG REGIO) - - DOWNLOAD PDF

Q&A

Moderated by: Sofia Savova, SZ REDA