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World energy solutions: switch to green power

An alternative energy conference on the eve of the World Energy Congress

Dates : Friday 9 - Saturday 10 November 2007
Venue : Sala Conferenze - Piazza di Monte Citorio, 123 A - Rome

PROGRAMME (download pdf - 1.753 KB)

 

Friday 9 November 2007

10:00 - 12:00

Welcome and Opening Speeches

 

Welcome by
Mauro Paissan, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
Roberto Della Seta, President, Legambiente
Monica Frassoni, Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament

Interventions of
Margot Wallström, Vice-President, European Conmmission
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, Italian Minister for Environment
Claude Turmes, Vice-President, Greens/EFA

Debate

15:00 - 18:30

Panel I - Energy oligopolies & future energy policies

 

Part 1 : Energy oligopolies and nuclear investments: the Enel Case in Mochovce

Chair : Eva Lichtenberger, Vice-President, Greens/EFA

Enel's investment in the nuclear power plant of Mochovce in Slovakia
Film : The ghosts of the Soviet nuclear - The case of Mochovce

15:00-16:30Interventions of :
Rebecca Harms, Vice-President, Greens/EFA
Giuseppe Onufrio, Campaign Director, Greenpeace Italy
Antonio Tricarico, Coordinator, Campaign for the Reform of the World Bank

Debate

16:30-17:15Part 2 : Energy oligopolies: transparency and democracy

Chair : Marie-Hélène Aubert, Vice-President, Greens/EFA

Key note speech by Eva Joly, Special adviser to the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs in Norway - Former investigating judge in the High Court of Paris. Her most famous case was that of Elf Aquitaine.

Debate

17:15 - 18:30

Part 3 : Energy oligopolies: solutions or problems ?

Chair : Eric Joszef, Libération

Round table with :
Chicco Testa, Chairman, XX World Energy Congress Organising Committee
Roberto Della Seta, President, Legambiente
Mariagrazia Midulla, Responsible of the "Clima" Programme, WWF Italy
Claude Turmes, Vice-President, Greens/EFA

Debate

Evening

 "20 Years Without Nuclear - Let's celebrate!"

 Palazzo Rospigliosi - on invitation
 
 

Saturday 10 November 2007

10:00-11:30

Panel II - Scenarios for a new energy and climate policy

 

Chair: Claude Turmes, Vice-President, Greens/EFA

A climate friendly nuclear-free world is possible :
The EREC/Greenpeace scenario
Wolfram Krewitt, Head of the Department of Systems Analysis and Technology Assessment at the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Centre

The Italian scenario
Duccio Bianchi, Director Ambienteitalia - Rodolfo Pasinetti, responsible for the Energy issues of Ambienteitalia

The Mediterranean solar power super grid - a peace and development project for the XXI century
Paul Metz, Co-founder of Gezen - Dutch foundation for large-scale solar power with Concentrating Solar Power

Debate

11:30 - 11:45

Coffee break

11:45 - 13:00

 Panel III - Cities and regions : key climate actors

 Chair : Sepp Kusstatscher, Member, Greens/EFA

Video on London's Climate Action Plan with statement of Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London

Upper Austria : the most dynamic region in Europe on renewables
Rudi Anschober, Regional Minister for Environment in Upper Austria

Rome: Towards a climate friendly city ?
Dario Esposito, Deputy Mayor of Rome (Environment)

Debate

15:00-16:30

Panel IV - The real business winners

 

Chair : Rebecca Harms, Vice-President, Greens/EFA

Jorge Vasconcelos, Head of a European Renewable Energy Investment Portfolio and former head of EU Energy Regulators
Paride De Masi, President, Confindustria Fonti Rinnovabili
Steve Sawyer, Secretary General, Global Wind Energy Council
Vincenzo Naso, President, International Solar Energy Society Italy
Alain Wouters, Architect, Art & Build

Debate

16:30-16:45Coffee break
16:45-18:00

Panel V - Renewable energies: if not now, when ?

 

Chair : Monica Frassoni, Co-President, Greens/EFA

Round-table with :

Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, Italian Minister for Environment
Ermete Realacci, President of the Committee of Environment, Italian Chamber of Deputies
Tommaso Sodano, President of the Committee of Environment, Italian Senate
Emma Bonino, Italian Minister for European Affairs and International Trade

Debate and conclusions

 

CONTACTS :

  • Office of Monica Frassoni, Greens/EFA Co-President - Phone : +32 2 2845932
  • e-mail : greens.rome2007@europarl.europa.eu

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