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Nuclear Energy - Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change
19 October 2005
Draft Programme
08:30 – 09:15
Registration
09:15 – 09:20
Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Peter HAUG, Director General, FORATOM
09:20 – 09:30
Chairperson’s Opening Speech by Ms. Eija-Riitta KORHOLA MEP (EPP-ED, Finland),
Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
09:30 – 09:55
Keynote Speech, UK Presidency of the EU 2005 (tbc)
09:55 – 10:10
Presentation of the MEP Declaration on Climate Change and Nuclear Energy by Mr. Terrence
WYNN MEP (PSE, United Kingdom), Chairman of the MEP Forum for the Future of Nuclear Energy
10:10 – 11:10
Session I: Global / EU Energy and Climate Change Policies
Moderator: Mr. Paul KAYE (ENDS Environment Daily)
Each speaker will make a brief presentation (10 minutes) on the session topic:
Introduction:
 European Commission (DG Environment) (tbc)
 Mr. Anders WIJKMAN MEP (EPP-ED, Sweden), Member of the Committee
on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
 Ms. Eija-Riitta KORHOLA MEP (EPP-ED, Finland) Member of the Committee
on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
 Mr. Chris HORNER, Director of External Relations, European Enterprise
Institute
 Mr. Juha POIKOLA, Vice President, Communications, Bioenergy Strategies,
Pohjolan Voima Oy (PVO)
 Ms. Claude NAHON, Senior Vice President - Environment and Sustainable
Development, EDF Group
11:25 – 11:45
Questions & Answers
13:15 – 14:15
Session II: Nuclear Energy’s Role in a post-2012 International Climate Change Framework
Moderator: Brussels Correspondent (tbc)
Each speaker will make a brief presentation (10 minutes) on the session topic:
14:30 – 14:50
Introduction:
 Mr. Jean-Eudes MONCOMBLE, Secretary General, French Member
Committee/World Energy Council (WEC)
 Dr. Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS ROCA MEP (EPP-ED, Spain), First VicePresident of the European Parliament
 Mr. Mark JOHNSTON, Campaigner, EU Energy Policy - Central & Eastern
Europe, Greenpeace European Unit (tbc)
 Prof. Risto TARJANNE, Professor of Energy Economics, Lappeenranta
University of Technology
 Dr. Gerd JÄGER, Executive Vice President, Nuclear Power Plants and
Renewable Energies, RWE Power
 Mr. Alain BUCAILLE, Special Adviser to the Chairman, ARVEA
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Questions & Answers
14:50 – 15:00
Closing Remarks by Ms. Eija-Riitta KORHOLA MEP (EPP-ED, Finland), Member of the
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and Mr. Eduardo GONZÁLEZ GÓMEZ,
President, FORATOM
tbc = to be confirmed