Workshop: "Climate change: Implications for technological development and industrial competitiveness”

The Energy Chair at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness, University of Deusto, and the Foundation for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-Funseam are organising this conference in collaboration with the Repsol Foundation. Its aim is to set out the main implications for technological development and industrial competitiveness in the struggle against climate change and in view of the summit, as well as examining the role of technologies in the struggle against climate change.  The implications for industrial competitiveness will also be analysed.

Programme:

8:30 Registration

9:00 Opening Session

• Antonio Brufau - President of Repsol and Fundación Repsol
• Emiliano López Atxurra – President of Petronor and Orkestra’s Energy Chair Sponsors Commitee
• Antonio Llardén Carratalá – President of Enagás and FUNSEAM
• Eduardo González- Deputy General Director for Coordination of Climate Change Actions of the Spanish Office of Climate Change

9:45 Panel I: The road to Paris

Chairman: Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri, Corporate Director of Institutional Relations of Repsol

• Alexander Ochs- Director of the World Watch Institute's Climate and Energy Programme
• Jorge  Rodríguez Grossi –Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University Alberto Hurtado, and Former Minister of Economics, Mining and Energy, Chile
• Geoffrey J. Blanford- Ifo Institute for Economic Research
• Teresa Ribera-Director of IDDRI (Institute for Sustainable Development and Internacional Relations)

12:00    Coffee Break

12:20    Panel II:  Technologies to cope with climate change challenges

Chairman: Antonio Soria Ramírez- Head of the Economics of Climate Change, Energy and Transport Unit, IPTS

• Fernando Temprano - Director of Technology of Repsol
• Gonzalo Sáenz de Miera - Director of Energy Prospective of Iberdrola
• Daniele Poponi - Project manager Energy Technology Perspectives project, International Energy Agency (IEA)
• Bettina Schreck – Industrial Development Officer, Energy Branch, of UNIDO

13:55   Lunch

15:30   Panel III: Climate change: Economic Implications for Industrial Competitiveness

Chairman: María Luisa Castaño, General Director of Innovation and Competitiveness, Ministerio de Economía, España

•  Alexandre Affre - Director of Industrial Affairs of Business Europe
•  Susanne Dröge – Head of Research Division Global Issues of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
•  Karsten Neuhoff - Head of Department of Climate Policy of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)

17:25    Closing session

Chairman: Josu Jon Imaz- CEO of Repsol

•  Eloy Álvarez Pelegry - Director of the Energy Chair of Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness. Deusto University
•  María Teresa Costa Campi – Director of the Chair in Energy Sustainability of the University of Barcelona and General Coordinator of Strategic Projects Funseam

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Free entrance.