Preparing the transition: research and innovation for post-2030 decarbonisation pathways - workshop, Brussels - Main contents
date | November 9, 2015 |
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city | Brussels, Belgium |
location | Berlaymont Building, Rue de la Loi 200 |
room | Berlaymont building (BERL) i |
attending | G.J.M. (Gerben-Jan) Gerbrandy i et al. |
organisation | European Parliament Delegation of Democrats 66 i |
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy will speak at the workshop 'Preparing the transition: research and innovation for post-2030 decarbonisation pathways'
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy participates in the workshop ‘Preparing the transition: research and innovation for post-2030 decarbonisation pathways’.
Gerbrandy will speak during panel 1, ‘Non-technological barriers and challenges for achieving a low carbon economy’ from 11:00 AM to 12:40 PM.
Draft Agenda
09:00-09:30 |
Welcome coffee |
09:30-09:50 |
WELCOME - OPENING Kurt Vandenberghe, Director, Climate Action and Resource Efficiency, DG Research & Innovation RTD’s long-term decarbonisation initiative |
09:50-10:10 |
PRESENTATION Willem Van Ierland, Acting Head of Unit, Strategy and Economic Assessment, DG for Climate Action Climate Policy for 2050 after COP21 |
10:10-10:30 |
PRESENTATION Martin Porter, Executive Director, Industrial Innovation for Competitiveness (i24c) Industrial Innovation for competitiveness and sustainability |
10:30-10:50 |
PRESENTATION Peter White, Chief Operating Officer, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Decarbonisation pathways: what role for the global business community |
10:50-11:00 |
Coffee break |
11:00-12:40 |
PANEL SESSION 1 Non-technological barriers and challenges for achieving a low carbon economy (e.g. finance, behavioural, regulatory, institutional, social aspects) Sami Andoura, Leader of the Sustainable Development Team, European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC) Béla Galgóczi, Senior Researcher, Unit for Economic, Employment and Social Policies, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Member of the European Parliament Robert Jan Jeekel, Head of EU Institutional Affairs, ArcelorMittal Steffen Kallbekken, Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo (CICERO) Imke Luebbeke, Head of EU Climate and Energy Policy, WWF European Policy Office Nick Robins, Co-Director, Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System at UNEP MODERATOR: Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Director, The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG), University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, EU Office & Policy Platforms |
12:40-13:40 |
Lunch break |
13:40-14:00 |
PRESENTATION Måns Nilsson, Deputy Director and Research Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) The New Climate Economy |
14:00-15:40 |
PANEL SESSION 2 The process of co-designing credible, cost-effective and socially acceptable low carbon transition scenarios: factors and measures of success Patrick Criqui, Directeur de recherche, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Christian Egenhofer, Senior Fellow and Head of the Energy, Climate and Environment Programme Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard, CEO & Founder, Greenovation Holding Aps, Former Mayor, City of Copenhagen Elmar Kriegler, Vice Chair of the research domain Sustainable Solutions, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Gail Whiteman, Professor, Rotterdam School of Management Mirjam Wolfrum, Director Policy & Reporting Europe at CDP gGmbH - Global environmental reporting system MODERATOR: Heleen de Coninck, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Radboud University |
15:40-16:00 |
CONCLUDING REMARKS Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director, European Environmental Agency (EEA) |