In the frame of the EU Sustainable Energy Week

 the issues debated
 the Summary report
 the programme with the photos, slides shown,...
 the minutes and the CV of the speakers

The European Union has drawn up a climate package in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. This package also concerns the transport sector, which accounts for 28% of CO2 emissions in Europe: the Union is committed to achieving a 10% share of renewable energies in each national transport sector by 2020. First-generation biofuels represent an effective ways of meeting this objective. 2nd and 3rd generation biofuels will be even more advantageous.

However, biofuels are a controversial topic and the public is asking itself: can they really open the way to clean transport? Aren’t we running the risk of seeing agriculture produce more fuel than food? How do biofuels affect biodiversity, water, soil and forests? Shortly said: are biofuels sustainable?

The biofuel industry is reviled, but some of industry players deserve to be better known. They actually claim firmly commitment in achieving sustainable development by achieving a multi-sector approach, encompassing the agriculture, energy, food and chemical sectors, that is likely to reduce the environmental footprint of biodiesel production much more than a single-sector approach. We would like to hear about these practices in an open and contradictory debate, to identify the strengths and drawbacks of biofuels.

SUMMARY REPORT

Summary report EE Biofuels 2010

PROGRAMME

 8.30 am - 8.45 am : Registration

 8.45 am - 9 am : WELCOME SPEECH
Claude Fischer, President of Confrontations Europe

Claude FISCHER

 9 am - 9.30 am : INTRODUCTORY SPEECHES
Philippe Tillous-Borde, General Manager of SOFIPROTEOL, Chairman of Diester Industrie
Alejo Vidal Quadras Roca, Vice-President of the European Parliament

Philippe TILLOUS BORDE

Alejo VIDAL QUADRAS ROCA

 9.30 am - 10.45 am : FIRST ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
The biodiesel sector in the face of climate, environment and food production challenges

Chaired by Hervé Fischer, Managing Director of Les Entretiens Européens

With:
Maria Angeles Benitez-Salas, Director to the European Commission’s DG Agriculture and rural development
Paul Hodson, Deputy Head of Unit to the European Commission‘s DG Energy
Jan-Erik Petersen, Head of Group at the European Environment Agency
André Pouzet, General Manager of CETIOM, technical centre for oilseed crops, member of the PROLEA association of French oilseed producers

Hervé FISCHER	Maria Angeles BENITEZ SALAS	Paul HODSON
Jan Erik PETERSEN	Slides Jan Erik PETERSEN	André POUZET

 11 am - 11.30 am : TALK-DEBATE
Worldwide development of non-food crops: Risks and opportunities for the South

With François Traoré, President of the African cotton producers association
and Sylvie Brunel, Geographer, Professor at Paris IV-Sorbonne University

Sylvie BRUNEL

François TRAORE

 11.30 am - 12.45 pm : SECONDE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Building a sustainable biofuel sector in Europe

Chaired by Michel Cruciani, CGEMP, Paris Dauphine University
Participants:
Joseph Beretta, Head for Energy, Technologies and Automotive Emissions, PSA Peugeot Citroën
Xavier Beulin, Chairman of SOFIPROTEOL, first Vice-President of the FNSEA
Raffaello Garofalo, Secretary General of the European Biodiesel Board
Nadine McCormick, Energy Network Coordinator, International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Michel CRUCIANI	Joseph BERETTA	Slides Joseph BERETTA
Xavier BEULIN	Raffaello GAROFALO	Slides Raffaelo GAROFALO
Nadine McCORMICK	Slides Nadine McCORMICK

 12.45 pm - 1 pm: ROUNDTABLE SYNTHESIS and parliamentary prospects
Jo Leinen, President of the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee

Jo LEINEN

 1 pm - 1.15 pm: Recorded MESSAGE of Bruno Le Maire, French Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fishing
The French biofuel sector model
Questions/Answers with Elodie Galko, technical Adviser for sustainable development and climate change

Bruno LE MAIRE

Elodie GALKO

 1.15 pm - 1.45 pm: CLOSING
For a sustainable biofuel industry in Europe
With Philippe Herzog, founder-president of Confrontations Europe
and Claude Fischer, president of Confrontations Europe

Philippe HERZOG

 1.45 pm Cocktail - Buffet

MINUTES and CV of the speakers

Minutes EE Biofuels 2010 ENG

CV des intervenants EE Biocarburants

CONTACT:
Marie-Ange Schilling
Tel: +33(0)1 43 17 32 89 ; Mail

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