"The Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia is delighted to host the 4th Bridging the Gap conference: Responding to Environmental Change – from Words to Deeds at the occasion of 10th anniversary of Bridging the Gap conferences. Conference will gather participants from policy, research, business and civil society communities. It will look at the past ten years of Bridging the Gap conference progress and will seek to close the gaps in most prioritised and emerging issues in European Union. It will address gaps in policy, research and in capacities of society to respond to emerging issues and uncertainties to be better prepared for the future and to move toward more sustainable development. Well being gaps will be addressed by looking at environment related impacts to human health and at the provision of ecosystem services. Three headline issues will be the common thread through five themes of the conference. The headline issues of the conference: • Need for urgent action • To put environment in the hearth of economic decision making • To improve communication between scientists, policy-makers, politicians, business and civil society Main themes of the conference: 1. Information gathering and sharing 2. Adaptation to climate change 3. Biodiversity and ecosystem services 4. Sustainable consumption and production 5. Energy and the environment Participants will have an opportunity to follow the conference through various ways of interaction: from listening to presentations and round table discussions of the most distinguished experts and high level politicians to participation at the café discussions in freely brainstorming style and five parallel topic sessions where they will be contributing to conclusions of the conference in respective theme."