Climate change will be the main theme of the EESC plenary session which will adopt an important resolution on sustainable development and climate change. The future European Parliament's working programme will be presented to the EESC by its President, Jerzy Buzek. The EESC will also award the winners of the third edition of the EESC prize for organized civil society.

Charlemagne building of the European Commission, in Brussels, will host on November 4 and 5 the plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). By far the lion's share of the plenary session will be devoted to climate change. On 5 November the EESC will adopt a political resolution on renewable energies, the international financing of measures tackling climate change and the strategy for sustainable development.

With this resolution the EESC calls for ambitious and enforceable commitments aimed at ensuring a sustainable future. Following the adoption, a debate linked to this topic and to the Global Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen will be addressed.

The plenary session will also on 4 November witness the awards ceremony of the third edition of the EESC prize for organized civil society. The competition aims to identify the pioneers of civil society, who are finding new ways to bring Europeans together and help them express a dynamic shared identity in the European continent. The Libera International and Confindustria Sicilia, Italian organisations combating organised crime, tied for the first prize.

The EESC will adopt opinions on "Area of Freedom, Security and Justice" and "Fundamental rights in European immigration legislation". These are just two strands within the EU five-year Stockholm Programme which is likely to be endorsed at the European Summit in December 2009.

Additionally, the EESC will hold a debate assessing the state of play of the Lisbon Strategy in a time of the economic crisis. It will also look into the future and thrash out priorities for the post-2010 Lisbon strategy in different areas. Several opinions on the issue will be debated and voted on.