On the occasion of Green Week, the European Commission Directorate General for the Environment, Friends of Europe, and Unilever with the support of Dow co-organize a European Policy Summit entitled “Climate Change: Keys to a concerted policy shift”.
Under Discussion:
Discussions at the Summit will address the media’s role in informing citizens about the climate change debate in order to ensure much-needed societal support, the role of business in implementing green policies despite the economic recession, as well as the actions that developing countries such as Brazil, India and South Africa, and leading economies such as China, the US and the EU, need to consider and act upon in the months leading to Copenhagen.
Where & When:
The summit will be held at the European Commission’s Charlemagne Building in Brussels on Tuesday, 23 June from 16.30 to 18.00, and Wednesday 24 June from 9.30 to 16.00.
Speakers, amongst others, include:
Franny Armstrong, Director of The Age of Stupid (a film about climate change)
Jean-Louis Borloo*, French Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development
Rob Bradley*, Director of International Climate Policy at the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington DC
Ashok Khosla, President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Chairman of Development Alternatives Group, India
Karl Falkenberg, European Commission Director General for the Environment
Tony Juniper*, Former Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International and UK Green Party Parliamentary Candidate
Thelma Krug*, Co-chair, Task Force Bureau National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Matthias Machnig, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Carlos Minc*, Brazilian Minister for the Environment
Frances Moore Lappé*, Author and Co-Founder of the Small Planet Institute
Jonathan Pershing*, United States Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change
Claus Sørensen*, European Commission Director General for Communication
Tony Surridge*, Head of the Centre for Carbon Capture & Storage at the South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI)
Achim Steiner*, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Gerard van Harten, President of Dow Benelux
Wang Yi, Deputy Director-General of the Institute of Policy and Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
* to be confirmed
Registration:
Please click here for the preliminary programme and registration form (regular updates can be found on our website www.friendsofeurope.org).
