Time To Adapt – Climate Change And The European Water Dimension

In 2007, the German EU presidency organized an international symposium about climate change and water issues titled Time To Adapt – Climate Change And The European Water Dimension
On of the key messages of that symposium was the importance of efficiency in resources use, including energy:

Energy and electricity production have an important role in mitigation and adaptation: improving energy efficiency (including reductions in transmission losses) should play a key role in national and European mitigation and adaptation policies. Decentralised approaches and a diverse energy mix are likely to be beneficial both in terms of adaptation and mitigation on the supply side. The management of cooling water demands, in particular under low flow conditions, should be made a part of the river basin management plans.