Programme
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Biographical note to introduce the speakers of the conference
Day 2: conference
| 09.00 | Registration |
| 09.15 | Opening of the Conference Tineke Huizinga, Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning |
| 09.25 | Introduction by the Chair of the Seminar: Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Professor of International and European Law at the University of Leiden; former Minister of Agriculture, and of Economic Affairs |
| 09.30 | Resource scarcity: the public good character of food and energy and how to deal with their expected shortages in the future Alex Evans, Centre on International Cooperation, New York University |
| 09.50 | The global quest for a more sustainable use of resources Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Chair of the UNEP panel on the sustainable use of resources |
| 10.10 | Discussion |
| 10.45 | Coffee break |
| 11.15 | Geopolitical views on the management and protection of natural resources Bernice Lee, Research Director of Energy, Environment and Resource Governance, Chatham House, Michael Klare, Professor Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College, United States |
| 11.45 | Discussion |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Workshops on Scarce resources: energy, food and minerals Workshop 1 – Securing a sustainable and affordable energy supply in Europe • A review of the EU’s energy policy • A transition to renewable energy sources: economic and societal barriers • Energy and foreign policy integration at the EU level Chaired by: Jacques de Jong, Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael International Energy Programme Brief presentations by: Helen Donoghue, Unit Strategy & Programming, DG Energy and Transport, European Commission Dominique Finon, Senior Fellow, French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), and affiliated with CIRED, EHESS (Paris) and IEPE (Grenoble University) Marcel Viëtor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Germany Workshop 2 –Towards a sustainable and fair food system in the EU • Access to food and the functioning and governance of food markets • Food security within the EU: still a relevant issue? • Safeguarding fish stocks or promoting it as alternative to meat? • External impacts of the CAP and the EU’s trade agenda • Strategic importance of natural resources for agricultural production Chaired by: Gerrit Meester, Chair of the OECD Committee for Agriculture Brief presentations by: Carlo Trojan, former Secretary General of the European Commission, former EU permanent representative to the WTO and Chairman International Food & Trade Policy Council Anders Klum, Director for Economic Analysis, Swedish Ministry of Agriculture Workshop 3- Precious minerals for the production of goods and food • Increasing resource extraction within the EU or stepping up raw materials diplomacy? • Safeguarding natural resources: a question of access, recycling, efficiency or substitution? • Phosphate; is there enough to keep up world food production? • Towards an integrated framework for sustainable exploration and use of minerals Chaired by: Renée Bergkamp, Director-General of Entreprise & Innovation, Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands Brief presentations by: Gwenole Cozigou, Director for Chemicals, Metals, Forest-based and Textile Industries, DG Entreprise, European Commission. Günter Tiess, Department of Mineral Resources and Petroleum engineering, Montan University of Leoben, Austria |
| 14.30 | Short break |
| 14.45 | Sustainable growth within Europe in 2020 • Integrating the economic and ecological aspects of the EU’s natural resources strategy • CAP reform: how use Europe’s competitive advantage in food with a sustainable land-use and economic development of rural areas? • Renewable energy sources: fashion or necessity? • Towards a European research agenda on scarcity and transition Keynote address by: Pierre Dechamps, Advisor Energy, Climate and the Environment, Bureau of European Policy Advisors, European Commission Food scarcity and the future of sustainable agriculture in Europe: Gerda Verburg, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Invited comments by: Joris Relaes, Head of Cabinet for Agriculture of the Flemish Prime-Minister, on behalf of the forthcoming Belgian presidency of the EU David Baldock, Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, United Kingdom |
| 15.15 | Discussion |
| 15.45 | Short break |
| 16.00 | The role of EU: reacting to global developments in the field of scarcity or co-shaping the framework for a sustainable planet? |
| 17.05 | Summary and conclusions (if possible) by the Chair of the conference Press briefing |
| 17.30 | Drinks |