This seminar will take place on Friday 24 February 2012.SERVE Wood Energy Seminar 24th February 2012 Final

Bookings for the event can be made

• on-line at http://servecommunity.ie/news/serve-conference-and-events-20112012/serve-seminar-series/

• or by phoning Maureen Ryan, LIT Tipperary at 0504 28112 or email Maureen.Ryan@lit.ie

Attendance will be limited to 40 so early booking is advised.

For those interesting in visiting a well established biomass supply chain network in Trento, northern Italy please contact pphelan@tea.ie

Come along to LIT Tipperary, Thurles campus on Wednesday morning, 1st February, at 9am and join the network.  Join us on Facebook

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 The programme of work has also been sent to the Chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht as part of the follow-up to the Minister’s meeting with the Committee in December.

The work programme for policy development, including legislation covers the next 18 months. The principal milestones include -

• a public consultation which will take place in the first half of 2012;
• in the second half of the year, the publication of an initial report by the NESC Secretariat on potential climate policies and measures (to be completed by end June 2012) and the development of heads of a Climate Bill for consideration by the Committee following Government approval (end-2012) – and
• the consideration of the end-2012 final report by the NESC Secretariat and the heads of Bill by the Committee in the first half of 2013.

The Minister also reiterated his commitment to an open and transparent process involving all stakeholders.

“A successful way forward for Ireland lies in structured dialogue on the range of views that exists across society – on an open and inclusive basis – and this will be facilitated at various points in the course of this work programme, beginning with the open consultation I will initiate next month”, the Minister said.

The Tipperary Green Business Network will hold a morning LAUNCH and NETWORKING event on Wednesday, February 1st  at LIT Tipperary, Thurles Campus at 9.00am. Companies in Co. Tipperary involved in the green sector, and who want to network with similar organisations, are encouraged to attend the launch event. The Green Business Network is being established in Co. Tipperary to take advantage of the emerging Green Economy, harness its job creation potential, with the longer term ambition of making Tipperary one of Ireland’s greenest counties. The event will feature a short presentation outlining the proposed structure and role of the Network, discussion and selection of a Management Committee, Business to Business networking, as well as an address by Michael Kelly (award-winning social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow) whose GIY network has over 12,000 members  across the country.
Membership of the Network will be free for the first year. It will, initially, focus on the following four key sectors: Buildings & Energy, Tourism, Transport and Food & Agriculture.  A Steering Group, established in mid 2011, has drafted a set of actions for the first 12 months of the Network. Speaking prior to the Launch Patrick Killeen of NTLP noted: ‘The Green Business Network has emerged out of a series of workshops and meetings in 2011 which saw a need for businesses in the areas of sustainable energy, construction, transport and food to come together.  This developed into the concept of a Network which is being launched on the 1st February.  The aim of the Network will be to support and develop businesses working in the green economy in the County.”  The Launch Event will start at 9.00am and finish at approximately 11am.

For more information see www.ntlp.ie . Call to confirm attendance. Tel 085-7409023 or email gfitzgibbon@ntlp.ie

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