Subjects for discussion
SESSION I:
What should we aim at and what needs to be done for achieving environmental sustainability in energy?
SESSION II:
What alternative energy futures for Europe and what about their financial viability?
- Alternative energy futures and investment strategies linked to them
- Environmental sustainability of alternative energy future(s)
- Future of the energy sector from the perspective of a major electricity company
- Views about an environmentally sustainable transport sector
- Future of renewable energy, particularly solar energy, and investment strategies needed
SESSION III:
Do we really have a blueprint for sustainable water management in Europe?
- From vision to environmental policy, resources needed and available
- Does reality match the rhetoric?
- How can Southern Europe meet the challenge?
- Efforts to be made for implementing the acquis communautaire.
SESSION IV:
Innovative Financing Instruments
- Financial strategies for implementing the conclusions of the Kyoto Water Summit
- Innovative financing of environmental projects
- Promoting markets for environmental services
- The emerging market for carbon - experience to date and emerging trends
- New instruments for new challenges