European Sustainable Energy Seminar, October 13-15, 2008

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Monday 13/10 : Salle Franklin – 60 rue Franklin – Metro « Mairie de Montreuil »

9.30 - 11.30. Project Meetings (meetings between organisations involved in the CE climate report and questionnaires and report, evt. other project meetings)

11.30-13. Lunch in the meeting room, check-in

13-13.30 : Introduction of seminar and participants

13.30-15.00 : Sustainable Energy Strategies, the rationale :
 News on oil peak, gas, coal and nuclear resource limits and price responses (Emil Bedi, FAE, Slovakia, INFORSE)
 Latest news on climate change (Paul Allan, CAT – UK)
 The democratic deficit in energy regulation, and ways to overcome it (Christelle Brown, Helio International)

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee/tea

15.30 – 16.00 Negawatt, sustainable energy scenario for France (Bernard Chabot, Negawatt)

16.00-17.00 Sustainable energy & zero carbon visions, short presentations of :
 vision for Latvia (Alda Ozola. Latvian Green Movement)
 vision for Lithuania (Saulius Piksrys, Atgaja, Lithuania)
 vision for Bulgaria (Todor Slavov, Za Zemiata, Bulgaria)
 visions for Russia, Denmark, and the EU (Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE) Zero Carbon Britain (Paul Allan CAT, UK /Tim) (each presentation with 5 min about the vision followed by 5 min. presentation of its use and plans)

17.00-17.30 Meeting with the Major of Montreuil, Dominique Voynet (previously French environmental minister, greens)

17.30 : Check in to hotels

18.30 – 20.00 Dinner (restaurant Le Huit, 8 rue Edouard Vaillant, Montreuil – Metro Croix de Chaveaux)

20.00 – 21.00 Discussion on sustainable energy visions, how to use them, and networking, such as the new low carbon emission network and ZeroCarbonEurope. Including a short presentation by Olivier, Climate Action Network France on the new network.

21.00 – 22.00 Open evening, presentations brought by participants (at CLER Office)

Tuesday 14/10 : Salle Franklin – 60 rue Franklin – Metro « Mairie de Montreuil » :

8.00 Breakfast at the hotel

9.00 Division of groups : Groups 9.15 – 12.00 (coffee included) for one group : at CLER Office

Group 1. Energy efficiency in the EU - Ecodesign - Building Performance Directive / update - Energy Service Directive − Energy efficiency action plan and way ahead (Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE)

Group 2.Sustainable energy education in practice - posters - working models - teaching materials - examples of education and exhibition activities (SPARE etc.) (Ion Zamfir, Earth Friends, Romania, etc.)

Group 3. Democracy in energy sector −Experience from France and other European countries −US experience with Public Utility Committees (Christelle Brown, Helio International)

12.00 Conclusions from groups in plenary

12.30 Lunch in the meeting room

13.30 EU Energy Package :
 Renewable energy promotion (targets and mechanisms, state of affairs), Dörte Fouquet, European Renewable Energy Federation)
 Emission trading Scheme (Tomas Wyns, Climate Action Network – Europe, through internet)

15.00 Discussion on energy package- national commitments to reach 20/30% target (panel of above and Gunnar Boye Olesen, Emil Bedi)

16.00 Biofuels : state of affairs, way ahead (Gunnar Boye Olesen)

19.00 Dinner (restaurant Le Huit, 8 rue Edouard Vaillant, Montreuil – Metro « Croix de Chaveaux »)

20.30 Evening together for free exchange of ideas etc... at CLER Office

Wednesday 15/10 : Salle du Conseil – Hôtel de Ville – 1 Place Jean Jaurès – Montreuil – Metro « Mairie de Montreuil » :

8.00 Breakfast at the hotel

9.00 Climate and energy policies in five selected countries (France, Germany, Poland, UK, Denmark. Presented by Raphael Claustre (CLER, France), Ursel Beckmann (BW Germany), Paul Allan /Tim (UK) and Gunnar Boye Olesen (OVE, Denmark)

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Global climate policies - Climate Change Country Reports - Review. Discuss the issue with respect to our future activities aimed to COP in Copenhagen 2009. Emil Bedi FAE, INFORSE

12.00 Our strategies for the climate negotiations and related policies in EU and the countries ? (plenary discussion on overall strategies, details can be discussed in the afternoon)

12.30 Lunch in the meeting room

Future INFORSE-Europe activities (for one group : at CLER Office) :

14-14.30 Plenary to prepare groups

14.30 – 15.30 Group session 1 15.30 – 16.30 Group session 2 including coffee 16.30 – 17.30 Group session 3

INFORSE-Europe work programme is presented on posters Tuesday morning and at each poster there will be room to add comments and names of interested. Empty posters will be available for new ideas. Each participant is asked to put his/her name on the topics that he/she expects to work on in 2009. We will then make as many working groups as we have proposals and schedule them to have as many people as possible participating in the topics they prioritise. The coordinators will coordinate the sessions.

17.30 – 18.30 Conclusions in plenary, end of the seminar

19.00 Seminar dinner (restaurant Le Huit, 8 rue Edouard Vaillant, Montreuil – Metro « Croix de Chaveaux »)

Thursday 16/10 7-10 Breakfast, departure of participants

Transfer to Paris railway stations is about 1 hour, to airport about 1½ hour.