 |
|||||||
|
|
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Innovative policies and financing instruments for the EU's southern and eastern neighbours Ministerial
Conference under the German Presidency of the EU
Programme 8 a.m.
Registration
9 a.m.
Welcome by KfW
Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, Spokeswoman of the Board of Managing Directors, KfW Bankengruppe 9.10 a.m. Opening by the EU Presidency and the European Commission
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety 9.40 a.m. Keynote speech
Topic: The urgent need for renewable energies and energy efficiency in the light of climate change Speaker: Mohamed El-Ashry, Senior Fellow of the UN Foundation, former CEO of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Chair of the Steering Committee of REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century) 9.55 a.m. Video message by His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, former President of the Club of Rome
10 a.m. Coffee break
10.30 a.m.
Session 1: Successful Policies for Renewable Energy
Topic: Successful political, economic and regulatory frameworks for the promotion of renewable energy Panel Hassan Ahmed Younes, Minister of Electricity and Energy, Egypt Ahmed Khaled Al Ali, Minister for Electricity, Syria Areg Galstyan, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy, Armenia Igor Salamun, Director General for Energy, Ministry of the Economy, Slovenia Manuel Sainz de Andrés, Director, Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving, Spain Steve Sawyer, Secretary General, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) Chair: Jos Delbeke, Director for Climate Change and Air, DG Environment, European Commission 12.15 p.m. Lunch
1.45 p.m.
Session 2: Successful Policies for Energy Efficiency
Topic: Successful political, economic and regulatory frameworks for the promotion of energy efficiency Panel Jurij Aleksandrowitsch Nedaschkowskij, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Fuel and Energy, Ukraine Khaled Najib Elshuraydeh, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jordan Abdelaziz Rassaâ, State Secretary for Renewable Energy, Tunisia Anicetas Ignotas, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Economy, Lithuania Fabrizio Barbaso, Deputy Director-General, DG TREN, European Commission Stephan Kohler, CEO, DENA (German Energy Agency) Fiona Riddoch, Managing Director, COGEN Europe Chair: Bernd Eisenblätter, Managing Director of GTZ 3.30 p.m. Coffee break
4 p.m.
Session 3: Innovative financing tools
Topic: Financing tools and possible support by donors and International Financing Institutions Panel Matthias Kollatz-Ahnen, Vice-President, EIB Josué Tanaka, Corporate Director Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, EBRD Peter D. Thomson, Director Sustainable Development, World Bank Group Wolfgang Kroh, Member of the Board of Managing Directors, KfW Bankengruppe Pierre Jaquet, Director Strategy, Agence Française de Développement, AFD Michael Fübi, Vice President, RWE Power AG Bob Assenberg, Deputy Managing Director, Triodos Investment Management Chair: Richard Weber, Deputy Director-General, EuropeAid 5.45 p.m.
Closing panel
Vanya Walker-Leigh, Vice -President of the Malta Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies Association, Malta Mohamed El-Ashry, Senior Fellow of UN Foundation, ex-CEO of GEF, Chair of the Steering Committee of REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century) Astrid Klug, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany Erich Stather, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany Chair: Humberto Rosa, State Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development, Portugal 8 p.m.
Reception and dinner
KfW Building Conference languages were English, French and German. Simultaneous translation was provided into the Conference languages and into Russian. |
||||||
 
 |
|||||||
|
Conference organised by Ecologic
- Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
 |
|||||||
| Copyright / Legal Disclaimer |  |
||||||
