Agenda
10:00
Welcome by RGI, IUCN and ENTSO-E
Antonella Battaglini | CEO, Renewables Grid Initiative
Stewart Maginnis | Deputy Director General, IUCN
Sonya Twohig | Secretary-General, ENTSO-E
10:10
Keynotes: The importance of optimising energy while empowering nature for a fast and successful energy transition
Bruno Oberle | Director General, IUCN
Hervé Laffaye | ENTSO-E President
10:45
‘Good Practice of the Year’ award ceremony
Award keynote given by:
Virginijus Sinkevičius | Commissioner for Environment, EC
Moderator:
Antonella Battaglini | CEO, RGI
Jury members to present the award winners:
Jean-Michel Glachant | Director, Florence School of Regulation / Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies / European University Institute
Rachel Asante-Owusu | Programme Manager, IUCN
Susana Batel | Integrated Researcher, Centre for Social Research & Intervention (Cis) / University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE)
11:15
Pathways to the future: Planning energy in harmony with biodiversity standards
- The need to address the double crisis of climate change and biodiversity and understand how to optimise energy infrastructure via innovative technologies and approaches and solid planning
- Reasons for protecting nature while deploying energy infrastructure
- How do we ensure that we can develop a culture of planning across energy and nature and implement the needed approaches?
- Which policy gaps do we still need to close for successful and timely implementation?
Moderator:
Antonella Battaglini | CEO, Renewables Grid Initiative
Panelists:
Gerhard Salge | CTO, Hitachi Energy
Dolf Gielen | Director, IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre
Humberto Delgado Rosa | Director Natural Capital, DG Environment
12:00
Lunch break incl. best practice fair
13:00
Optimising planning to achieve net zero and net biodiversity gain
- How to scale new approaches, test and mainstream those that work? What type of resources and regulatory settings are required?
- What are the best technologies and opportunities for nature?
- What can be done on policy level to roll the best practices out across Europe?
Moderator:
Rachel Asante-Owusu | Programme Manager, IUCN
Panelists:
Ilse Tant | Chief Community Relations Officer, Elia
Eva Philipp | Director Environment & Sustainability Unit BA Wind, Vattenfall
Leon Bennun | Chief Scientist, The Biodiversity Consultancy
Martin Harper | Regional Director, Europe & Central Asia, BirdLife
13:45
Optimising space: Needed actions, roles and responsibilities Short pitch presentations on existing best practices
- How to develop a European approach for site allocations for economic activities to achieve climate neutrality and for nature protection?
- How can we ensure that the plans for our future energy system are optimised with regard to the space we have available?
- How can we achieve a truly European approach for site allocation and transfer of best practice within Europe? Which actors need to be involved?
- How can policies better support integrated spatial and system planning and its implementation?
Moderator:
Gerald Kaendler | Chairman, ENTSO-E System Development Committee
Panelists:
Audrey Zibelman | Vice President, X’s Electric Grid Moonshot
Nathan Cummins | Great Plains Renewable Energy Strategy Director, The Nature Conservancy
Heleen Vollers | Senior Project Lead Nature-Friendly Energy, North Sea Foundation
Christoph Bals | Policy Director, Germanwatch
14:30
Joint call to action: committing to principles in biodiversity protection & benefit creation / asking policy makers and practitioners to raise the bar
Antonella Battaglini, Stewart Maginnis, Sonya Twohig
14:45
