date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:13:38 +0100
from: "Marjan Minnesma" <marjan.minnesma@ivm.vu.nl>
subject: FW: Latest version of ENSEMBLES WP structure
to: "Bert Metz" <bert.metz@rivm.nl>, "Mike" <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>

   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

