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
15:00-16:30	Interventions 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
16:30-17:15	Part 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
16:30-16:45	Coffee 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