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Official programme
Wednesday, 10 February, 2010
16:30  Conference member accreditation
   
18:00  Inaugural act
  - Carmen Oliver, Lady Mayoress of Albacete
- Pedro Antonio Ruiz, head of Albacete council
- Francisco Pardo, chairman of the law Courts of Castilla-La Mancha
- Teresa Ribera, State secretary for Climate Change
- José María Barreda, president of Castilla-La Mancha

   
19:00  Plenary Session
  - Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Director General of TERI (Tata Energy Research Institute). Pachauri received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore.
  - Introducing the Speaker:
José Manuel Moreno, chair of Ecology at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Vice-chairman of the second group of the IPCC
   
20:00  Authorities Tour
   
20:30  Cocktail


Thursday, 11 February, 2010
09:00  Convention member welcome
   
09:30  Plenary Session
  - Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Primer Minister of Norway and United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change since 2007. Brundtland was Director General of the WHO (1998-2003) and Chair of the United Nations World Commission for the Environment and Development
  - Introducing the Speaker:
Luis Jiménez, director of the Observatory for Sustainability in Spain
   
11:00  Coffee Break
   
11:30  Round table: Policies and strategies for climate change
  Bases for a global strategy: formulation of new measures in co-ordination with European policies, a greater investment in research and heightened public awareness
  

- Carlos José Blázquez Orodea, Director General of Environmental Evaluation in Castilla-La Mancha.
- Jorge Bonnet Fernández-Trujillo, Director of the Canary Islands’ Agency for Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
- Salvador Samitier Martí, Climate Change Office in Cataluña.
- Francisco Victoria Jumilla, co-ordinador of the Regional Observatory for Climate Change in the Murcia Region.
- Esperanza Caro Gómez, general secretariat for Planning, , Climate Change, and Environmental Quality, from Counseling Environment Andalucía.

Moderator: Alfonso Rodríguez, Castilla-La Mancha Office of Climate Change

   
11:30  Round table: Energy
  The contribution of renewable energies to mitigating climate change and energy transition to a world based on clean energy.
  -Manuel Marín, Chair of the Iberdrola Foundation and profesor at UAH
-Salvador Rueda, Director of the Barcelona Urban Ecological Agency
-Benito Montiel, Director General of Industry, Energy and Mines, Castilla-La Mancha
-Luis Atienza, President of the Spanish Electrical Grid
-George Monbiot, journalist and adviser
-Carmen Fernández Rozado, adviser to the National Energy Commission

Moderator:
Paula Fernández Pareja, adviser on Industry, Energy and the Environment, Castilla-La Mancha
   
11:30  Round table: Economic impact
  The need for global economic analysis: the benefit of firm  rather than marginal action will outweigh the costs of investment in the process of adjustment
  - Joaquín Nieto, Honorary President of Sustainlabour
- Ernesto LLuch Moreno, Associated responsible form Climate Change, Garrigues Environment
- Juan Ignacio Palacio, chair of Applied Economics, UCLM
- Laura Gallego, head of department for Climate Change, CEOE
- José Cuenca, Ambassador of Spain

Moderator: Ramón Sotos, Sustainability councillor at the Albacete local council
   
11:30  Round table: New business opportunities
  Climate change as a new business opportunity: the benefits waiting for those industries that adapt their processes to the new system of development
  - Pedro Mora, Cement pool in Spain (OFICEMENT)
- José Núñez, President of Alquimia Soluciones Ambientales
- Santiago Oliver, Union Steel Companies
- José Antonio Alonso Colliga, presidente de la Asociación Provincial de Empresas de Técnicas Energéticas de Cuenca (APETEC)
- Mónica Oviedo, responsible of Climate Change of Corporative Environment and Quality of Iberdrola.

Moderator: Director Representative of AGESAM, Environment Solicitor Asociation of Albacete
   
13:30  End of the round tables
   
14:00  Lunch
   
15:30  Energy workshop: the application of forms of energy to industrial processes. Organised by AGECAM, ESCAN, EUROPEAN UNION
   
15:30  Business meeting. Organised by FEDAJE and CECAM
   
15:30  Workshop for Taller a Network of Networks for Sustainable Development (Ecourbano)
  Organised by Network of Network development Network and FEMP
   
15:30  Social workshop. Organised by the Castilla-La Mancha Consumer Institute and the OSE
   
15:30  Clean energy route. Organised by AGECAM
   
 15:30 Promoting bicycle transport in the city today: training program in safe movement.
  Organised by ATIZZA S.L.
   
18:30  End of the workshops
   

 

Friday, 12 February, 2010
09:00  Convention member welcome
   
09:30  Plenary Session
  - Juan Verde, a world expert on the environment and sustainability
  

- Introducing the Speaker and moderator of the debate:

David Sánchez Paños, president of the federation of associations of young entrepreneurs in Castilla-La Mancha

   
11:00  Coffee Break
   
11:30  Table: New challenges
  Scientific and technological research faced with the new landscape of climate change: challenges following Copenhagen 2009
  
-Fernando Valladares, research profesor at CSIC, President of the Spanish Association for Terrestrial Ecology
-Santos Cirujano, scientist at CSIC and at the Madrid Botanical Gardens
-Cayetano López, Director General at CIEMAT
-Manuel López, Corporate Marketing Director at Hewlett-Packard
-Domingo Jiménez Beltrán, former Director of the European Environmental Agency
-Francisco Quiles, vice-rector of Research, Campus Albacete, UCLM

Moderator: Jorge de las Heras, Director of Studies, Campus Albacete UCLM
   
11:30  Round table: Rural environment
  Impact of climate change on rural areas: an evaluation of the economic repercussions, challenges and opportunities for each productive subsector
  - Gregorio López, professor of Economic Policy at UCLM
- Ángel de Prado, founding member of the Spanish Network for Rural Development
- Juan Felipe Carrasco, officer for the Transgenic Campaign at Greenpeace España
- Alberto Lafarga (ITC - Navarra). Extensive Cultivations, Energetic Consumption and Co2 Emissions
- José Manuel Delgado (UPA Madrid) Colaborates with climate change issues for the Farmers Asociation.

Moderator: Javier Sánchez, President of the + árboles Foundation
   
11:30  Round table: Climate Change and Mass Media
  The scale of climate change: how the mass media has transformed a scientific emergency into a global one
  

- Luis Guijarro, president of the Journalists’ Association for Environmental Information
- Ernest García, chair of Anthropology, University of Valencia
- Rafael Méndez, El País newspaper (pending confirmation)
- Eva González Herrero,Europa Press Noticias Environment and Science Editor
- José Vicente Barcia, press officer of Ecologistas en Acción

Moderator: Ángel Muñoz, communication's department of the Observatory of Sustainability in Spain.

   
 13:00   Conclusions of CCSE
  Jorge de las Heras - President of Cientific Committee
Council of Albacete - President of Organizer Committee
  

 - José Manuel Moreno, professor of Ecology at Castilla-La Mancha University, vice-president of the second group from IPCC

   
 13:20  Final Reflects: Alook to the future.
   - José Manuel Moreno, professor of Ecology at Castilla-La Mancha University. vice-president of the Second Group of the IPCC.
   
13:45  Closing ceremony
  

- Ángel Nicolás, President of CECAM

- Abel Caballero Álvarez, President of the Spanish Network of cities about Climate

- Carmen Olvier, Lady Mayoress of Albacete

- Pedro Antonio Ruiz, head of Albacete council

- Diego López Garrido, secretary of State for teh Europeann Union (pending confirmation)

- Paula Fernández Pareja, adviser of Industry, Energy and Environment, Castilla la Mancha Government.

   
   NOTE: Round tables are simultaneous activities, so congressmen, must check the once which want to take part in, throught the form below, when making the inscription paying.


 * The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the diary of the 2nd Convention on Climate Change and Sustainability in Spain without in any way damaging the prestige of the proposed programme.