Programme

4^th European Resources Forum (ERF 2018)

Day 1 | Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Time	Title
12.00	Registration
13.00	Opening Session: Sustainable Resource Use – Driving the Transition
	Conny Czymoch Conference Moderation, Germany/UK Maria Krautzberger President, German Enviroment Agency Svenja Schulze Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany Karmenu Vella European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission (video message)
	Panel Discussion: Sustainable Resource Use – Driving the Transition Brendan Edgerton Director Circular Economy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland Astrid Schomaker Director, Directorate Global Sustainable Development, DG Environment, European Commission Jeremy Wates Secretary General, European Environmental Bureau
14.45	Coffee & Tea Break
15.00	Plenary Session: Transformation Pathways - the Nexus Between Resource and Climate Protection
	Dr. Harry Lehmann General Director, Division Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, German Enviroment Agency Dr. Hans Bruyninckx Executive Director, European Environment Agency, Denmark Prof. Dr. Helga Weisz Professor of Industrial Ecology and Climate Change, Head of Research Domain Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, member of UNEP International Resource Panel, Germany Prof. Sangwon Suh University of California, Corporate Environmental Managament, Industrial Ecology, Life Cycle Assessment, United States of America
16.30	Coffee & Tea Break
16.45	Plenary Session: Getting the Price Right - Strengthening Fiscal and Financial Instruments
	Prof. Paul Ekins Director, Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, member of UNEP International Resource Panel, United Kingdom Shardul Agrawala Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division, OECD Environment, France Dominic Hogg Phd Founder and Chairman of Eunomia Research & Consulting, United Kingdom Dr. Klaus Jacob Research Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Carola Maggiulli Head of sector, Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
18.15	Get Together

Day 2 | Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Time	Title
09.00	Review and Feedback 1st Day Conny Czymoch Conference Moderation, Germany/UK
09.15	Key Note Speech: The Long Term Cycle of Mineral Resources: Is a Completely Circular Economy Possible?
	Prof. Ugo Bardi Professor in Physical Chemistry, University of Florence, Member of Club of Rome, Italy
09.45	Plenary Session: Resource Efficiency Worldwide – the International Dimension
	Dr. Regina Maria Dube General Director, Department Water Management, Resource Conservation, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany Dr. Rachna Arora Deputy Team Leader and Coordinator, EU-REI, India Janez Potočnik Co-chair of the UNEP International Resource Panel, former European Commissioner for R&D and Environment, Partner SYSTEMIQ, Slovenia Dr. Tracey Spack Directorate Environment and Climate Change, Director of Products Division, Government of Canada Shigemoto Kajihara President, Japan Waste Research Foundation
11.00	Coffee & Tea Break
11.30	Parallel Session 1: Resource Efficiency in Practice – Examples from Central and Eastern Europe (small conference room, ground floor)
	Branko Dunjic Cleaner Production Centre of Serbia Jaana Merisaar Project Manager, Environmental Management Department, Ministry of the Environment, Estonia Pavel Růžička Senior Consultant, ENVIROS, Czech Republic Aida Szilagyi President, National Centre for Sustainable Production and Consumption, Romania Chair: Dr. Martin Vogt Managing Director, VDI Centre for Resource Efficiency, Germany
11.30	Parallel Session 2: Resource Efficiency and Business Innovation – Start-Ups by European “Ecopreneurs“ (Mendelssohn-Saal, 7^th floor)
	Prof. Dr. Klaus Fichter Director, Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability, and University of Oldenburg, Germany Maija Itkonen CEO, Gold & Green Foods Ltd, Finland Hubert Rhomberg CEO, Rhomberg GmbH, Cree GmbH, Austria Klaus Wiesen Co-Founder and CEO, sustainabill GmbH, Germany Eva Revilla Policy officer on cluster internationalization, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission Moderation: Conny Czymoch
11.30	Parallel Session 3: Green and Circular Economy – Network Activities of European Environment Agencies (large conference room, ground floor)
	Pawel Kazmierczyk European Environment Agency, Denmark Ines Oehme, Herwig Unnerstall German Environment Agency Riina Antikainen Finnish Environment Institute Aldert Hanemaaijer Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Chair: Dr. Bettina Rechenberg General Director, Division Sustainable Production and Products, Waste Management, German Environment Agency
11.30	Parallel Session 4: Circular Economy - the Consumer Perspective (Goldberger Saal, 1^st floor) (in Cooperation with World Resources Forum)
	Lieze Cloots Head, International Policy Unit, OVAM, Public Waste Agency of Flanders Rolf Buschmann BUND, Germany Markus Terho, Sari Laine The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra Dr. Vanessa Timmer Executive Director of One Earth, Vancouver, Canada Chair: Bas de Leeuw Managing Director, World Resources Forum, Member of Club of Rome, Switzerland
13.00	Lunch Snack
14.15	Short Reports from Parallel Sessions Conny Czymoch Conference Moderation
15.00	Plenary Session: Digitalisation and Sustainable Resource Use – Opportunities and Challenges
	Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing Professor of Computational Social Science, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Computer Science Department, University ETH Zürich, Switzerland Dr. Maja Göpel Secretary General, German Advisory Council on Global Change Dr. Martin Vogt Managing Director, VDI Centre for Resource Efficiency, Germany
16.30	Closing Session: Outlook and Next Steps
	Dr. Harry Lehmann General Director, Division Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, German Enviroment Agency Prof. Bruno Oberle Phd Professor for Green Economy and Resource Governance, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, President World Resources Forum, Member of UNEP International Resource Panel, Switzerland Conny Czymoch Conference Moderation
17.00	End of the conference
17.30	Get Together with Participants of the National Resources Forum 2018

Programme

4th European Resources Forum (ERF 2018)

Day 1 | Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Day 2 | Wednesday, 28 November 2018

4^th European Resources Forum (ERF 2018)