EUU, Alm.del - 2008-09 - Bilag 374: Henvendelse fra Friends of Europe vedr. invitation til møde 23-24/6-09 om "Climate Change" i Bruxelles

A European Policy Summitco-organised byFriends of Europe,the European Commission Directorate Generalfor the Environment and Unileverwith the support of DowBrussels, Charlemagne BuildingTuesday & Wednesday 23-24 June 2009WHAT, WHERE & WHEN:A European Policy Summit entitled “ClimateChange: Keys to a concerted policy shift”.The summit will be held at the European Commission’s Charlemagne Building in Brussels on Tuesday, 23June from 16.30 to 18.00, and Wednesday 24 June from 9.30 to 16.00.UNDER DISCUSSION:Discussions at the Summit will address the media’s role in informing citizens about the climate changedebate in order to ensure much-needed societal support, the role of business in implementing green policiesdespite the economic recession, as well as the actions that developing countries such as Brazil, India andSouth Africa, and leading economies such as China, the US and the EU, need to consider and act upon inthe months leading to Copenhagen.SPEAKERS, amongst others, include:Franny Armstrong,Director ofThe 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) inWashington DCAshok Khosla,President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) andChairman 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 PartyParliamentary 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, NatureConservation 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 NationalEnergy 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 ChineseAcademy of Sciences (CAS)* to be confirmed