Caixa Catalunya - Obra Social

WEDNESDAY, 14/10

Presentation Kirit S.Parikh

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Opening Session
The world in the post-Kyoto era

Opening speeches

MR. MIQUEL PERDIGUER
DIRECTOR OF CAIXA DE CATALUNYA'S COMMUNITY PROJECTS

MR. EDUARD PALLEJÀ
GENERAL SECRETARY OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND HOUSING AREA

Introductory conference

The new economies and climate change (Spanish version)
Speaker: Kirit Parikh IPCC and member of the Planning Commission, Government of India.

With the support of the Col·legi de Politòlegs i Sociòlegs

WEDNESDAY, 21/10

The future of the past: coal, oil and gas

The problems of non-renewable energy resources and the size of the remaining reserves. The world distribution of the resources and geopolitics. Security of supply and dependence: the case of Spain.

· Coal and oil in twenty years' time
Speaker: Mariano Marzo. Professor and teacher of Energy Resources of Stratigraphy and Petroleum Geology at the Faculty of Geology of the University of Barcelona.

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· The future of gas
Speaker: Antonio Llardén, presidente de Enagás

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With the support of the Association of Professional Geologists

TUESDAY, 27/10

Demonstrated alternatives: nuclear and renewable energy

Nuclear fission and fusion: perspectives. The operation, impact and safety of nuclear energy. Conditions for the Implementation and operation of renewable energies: complementary investment in production and supply. Promotion policies.

· Perspectives of fission and fusion
Speaker: M Teresa Domínguez

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· Possibilities and limitations of renewable energy sources
Speaker: Reinhard Haas. Vice-head of the Institute of Power Systems and Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology.

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With the support of the FUNDACIÓN CONAMA and the Association of Professional Physicists.

THURSDAY, 5/11

Energy, forests and climate

The role of carbon sinks in the carbon cycle. Disforestation and reforestation. Possible policies. Relation between forestry policies and the carbon credit markets.

· Forest biomass and CO2 sinks
Speaker: Carles Gracia Alonso, Researcher at the CREAF and Ecology teacher in the UB

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· The forest climate market
Speaker: Mr. Cyril Loisel, coordinator of the Energy and Climate Change Programme of the IDDRI

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· Special talk on the preparatory conferences - COP-15 in Barcelona

What's at stake in Copenhagen? Challenges and opportunities of COP-15
Speaker: Mr. Frederic Ximeno (Director General of Environmental Policies and Sustainability)

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With the support of the Association Professional and Association Mounts Engineers (Spain)

TUESDAY, 17/11

Clean energy and social actors

The positions adopted by trade unions and ecologists concerning climate change and energy problems. Climate change policies and economic crisis. Clean energies and job creation.

Extraordinary conference by Hble. Counselor of Environment and Housing

· Emissions control and the labour market
Speaker: Aurora Huerga, Territorial Develoment Secretary of CCOO in Catalonia

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Speaker: Dionis Oña Secretary of the Climate Change of the UGT

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· The ecologist position
Speaker: Juan López de Uralde. Executive Director of Greenpace Spain

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With the support of the Association Professional Environmentalists

THURSDAY, 26/11

The price of energy

The impact and external effect of the energy sector. Private costs and social costs. The electricity rate and who has to pay all the costs. The role of current and future consumers.

· Rates and the market
Speaker: Paulina Beato, Professor of Economic Theory and vice-president of the Expert Energy Group in the Economics and Finance Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya

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· The costs that price does not internalise
Speaker: Emilio Padilla, associate professor of applied economics at the UAB

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With the support of the General Council of Association Professionals Economists (Spain)

WEDNESDAY, 2/12

The carbon credit markets

Carbon credits markets or the carbon tax. The degree of coverage of the carbon credit markets. The emitting sectors. Free or auctioned distribution. Carbon credit financial markets: their functions. World credit or tax market.

· The European emissions trading market
Speaker: Mr. M. Ángel Lasheras, Chairman of Intermoney Energía and Wind Market

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· The financial markets and emissions
Speaker: Mr. Alfredo Martínez-Sabadell, president of the Environmental and Sustainability Commission of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce

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With the support of the Association Professionals Lawyers