Energy
Round table on environmental protection and climate change
Brussels, 27 May 2008
The Commissioner for competition, Ms Neelie Kroes, hosted a full-day Round Table event on "Environmental Protection and Climate Change - Cost, Opportunities and the Role of Public Support" on 27 May in Brussels.
The purpose of this event was to put environmental State aid policy in the right economic and political context and to stimulate an exchange of views between industry, politicians, the financial community, analysts, stakeholders and policy-makers.
Presentations
Opening speech: "State aid and climate change – creating the right incentives for business"
Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for competition
Speech "Climate Change – a global finance perspective" 
Caio Koch-Weser, Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group
CEO Vision: renewable energy and energy saving – cost and opportunities for industry
Moderator: Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for competition
Speakers: Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO, Schneider-Electric; Lars G. Josefsson, CEO, Vattenfall; Ben Verwaayen, Chairman, CBI Task Force on Climate Change
Discussant: Nick Mabey, CEO, E3G
Speech "Environmental protection as an opportunity for improved competitiveness"
Dr Žiga Turk, Development Minister, Republic of Slovenia
Financing environmental protection and combating climate change: the right balance between "polluter pays principle" and public support
Moderator : Philip Lowe, Director General, DG Competition
Speakers: Andrea Benassi, Secretary-General, UEAPME; Graham Branton, Director State aid, BERR; Dörthe Fouquet, European Renewables Energy Federation
Discussant: Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, IEA
Speech "Leading the Way to the Third Industrial Revolution"
Jeremy Rifkin, President, Foundation on Economic Trends
The reform of the EU ETS – burden or opportunity for European industry?
Moderator : Philip Lowe, Director General, DG Competition
Speakers : Claude Turmes, MEP; Nick Campbell, BUSINESSEUROPE, Chairman Climate Change Working; Group Rod Christie, President, Central & Eastern Europe, GE Energy
Discussant: Sanjeev Kumar, WWF European Policy
Closing remarks
Philip Lowe, Director General, DG Competition
Speakers' biographies
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