WG 3 «Environment, energy and climate change» of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum held its meeting sessions on 28–29.11.2011 in Poznan with participation of 29 members.

The report 2011 was presented by Anna Golubovska-Onisimova (Environment) and Wojtek Borodzicz (Energy security) according the following 4 main directions of work:

1. Participation in the panels and seminars (no platforms allowed in 2011)
2. WG3 meetings, planning and activities in 2011
3. Participation in the European Integration Index report
4. Preparation of the Environmental performance assessment report TOWARDS GOOD ENVIRONEMNTAL GOVERNANCE in 6 EaP countries.

Anna Golubovska-Onisimova reported about the participation in EaP mile-stown events, the reports were disseminated among WG3 members via list-serve This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
To ensure that everybody receives information including all presentations, copies were sent to all personal addresses, since there were complaints that google group doesn't work properly. The Environmental Panel coincided with EaP Summit in dates, so environmental issues were not presented during the Summit. It is a need to highlight environment and SD issues in the EaP agenda at the high-level dialogue and promote it further. Now, prior to CSF III, CSF representatives received the status of permanent representatives so then they officially will be invited for all Governmental meetings.

Annual meeting of Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Working Group 3 “ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY SECURITY” was held in Kyiv on 23rd June, 2011. On June 24–25, 2011 the Expert workshop “Eastern Partnership CSF Working Group 3 assessment of environmental policy reform in 6 partner countries” was conducted in Kyiv. The main purpose of the workshop was to agree by the experts from relevant WGs of EaP national platforms, on joint assessment of environmental pillar of the Eastern Partnership via the implementation of environmental policy reform and governance in 6 EU partner countries, based on the methodology, developed by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) in 2009.

Immediately after the WG3 June 2011 meetings were held, IRF (European Programme) invited WG 3 and its co-ordinator Anna Golubovska-Onisimova to participate in the EII report preparation, e.g. to elaborate common indicators for all 6 countries, to identify experts, to fill in the data, to process it and analyse with a summary. National platforms co-ordinators were approached to take part. Final results were verified by the MAMA-86 experts. The report, including Environmental chapter, was presented in Poznan on 30.11.2011.

Anna Golubovska-Onisimova reported on preparation of the Environmental performance assessment report TOWARDS GOOD ENVIRONEMNTAL GOVERNANCE in 6 EaP countries. Project Coordination Council was established in June 2011 in Kyiv. WWF Questionnaire was modified and suggested for comments. After comments were received, 7 Questionas were finalised and the Questionnaires were sent to 6 countries Co-ordinators. After replies were received, they were verified and co-ordinators asked for clarifications. Final draft was produced in Russian and English and distributed in e-format among WG3 participants and printed copies in Russian were distributed among co-ordinators and experts. Final draft conclusions and recommendations were distributed and made available in Russian and English for WG3 and beyond, also to be presented at special CSF III side-event in Poznan . After discussions and written comments, the final version in two languages will be published in January 2012.

For GROUP’S ACTIVATION, it was decided to nominate Focal points on main thematic directons of work resulted into the following attribution:

• Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development — Anna Golubovska-Onisimova
• Green Economy/ green agriculture — Malak Shukurova, Manana Tsulaia (green agriculture)
• Energy Efficiency, renewables, energy security — Andriy Chiubyk, Murman Margvelashvili
• Climate change/ water — Yaroslav Bekesh, Dimitru Drumea (water)
• Ecosystem service — Samir Isayev
• Greening ENPI — Manana Kochladze

Focal points role should be to collect and disseminate information on the issue (in relation to the EaP), to coordinate the preparation of position of WG3 (responsible for the draft), to deliver it to intergovernmental meetings/ seminars where appropriate, to represent WG3 at the relevant meetings, to take minutes of these minutes and report back to WG3.

It was decided that Environmental Policy Integration and Sustainable Development issues prioritisation in the EaP agenda is the goal of WG3 activities. For 2012, it was suggested that environmental governance issue (theme of EaP Flagship Initiative) should be presented at the high politic al level of EaP Summit.

National coordinators should communicate to NatPlatforms and back in order to improve coordination and national implementation of WG3 decisions and activities.

It was also decided that the REGULATION of EaP CSF WG3 should be drafted and approved ASAP.

The discussion was held on what type of projects should be the priority for whole WG3. It was decided that Monitoring and Assessment activities are the core, and current Assessment Report TOWARDS GOOD ENVIRONEMNTAL GOVERNANCE in 6 EaP countries should continue. Anna GO was asked to keep co-ordinating it. Similar monitoring and assessment activities would be very good to establish for Energy and Climate change issue.

Yaroslav Bekish, Green Alliance, Belarus was elected as new co-ordinator on behalf of EaP Partner countries. Wojtek Borodzicz from Center for International Relations, Poland, was elected as the co-ordinator on behalf of EU.

WG3 endorsed the Statement on Climate change which was adopted as a Statement of CSF III at the last plenary session.