European Commission, New Environmentalism Summit, Brussels, 3 June 2014:
Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment:
"Good afternoon everyone, thank you James.
I hope you all agree it has been a fascinating day with really excellent speakers.
Recently I gave a TED talk which had
the title 'New Environmentalism and the Circular Economy'. Some of you
may have watched it on YouTube so I will try not to repeat too much of
what I have said before but some of the points I made in that talk are
highly relevant to this one and need to be repeated.