Program

Thursday 5 June 2008

12:00 – 13:00

Arrival – Registration & lunch
Welcome to Hafslund Manor: Christian Berg, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hafslund ASA

13:00 – 15:30

Plenary session: Setting the scene

Ricardo Lagos, Former President of Chile, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President of the Club of Madrid

Göran Persson, Former Prime Minister of Sweden

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Prime Minister of Norway, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, member of the Club of Madrid

Nicholas Stern, I. G. Patel Chair at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Former chief economist at the World Bank

Coffee break

Romina Picolotti, Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development, Argentina

Philippe Joubert, Executive Vice President, Alstom

Frederic Hauge, President, The Bellona Foundation

Erik Solheim, Minister of Environment and International Development, Norway

Question & answer session
Moderator: Frances Cairncross, Rector, Exeter College, University of Oxford 

 Coffee break

15:45 – 18:30

Working groups: An agenda for technology and finance to mitigate and adapt to climate change 

Working group 1

An international agreement for access to and financing of technologies for developing countries

Chair:
Richard Benedick, Former Chief US Negotiator of the Montreal Protocol, Senior Adviser at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, President of the National Council for Science and the Environment.

Panellists:
Scott Barrett, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Romina Picolotti, Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development, Argentina
Lu Xuedu, Deputy Director-General, Office of Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Science and Technology, China

Working group 2

A major effort for climate-related technological development

Chair:
Frances Cairncross, Rector, Exeter College, University of Oxford 

Panellists:
Christian Berg, CEO, Hafslund ASA
Kristalina Georgieva, Vice-President and Corporate Secretary, World Bank
Lewis Milford, President, Clean Energy Group
James E. Rogers, CEO, Duke Energy

Working group 3

What are the key technological challenges – and what is needed to overcome them?

Chair:
Jennifer Mary Shipley, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Member of the Club of Madrid

Panellists:
Bonifacio Garcia Porras, European Commission, Member of Cabinet of Commissioner for Energy
Frederic Hauge, President, The Bellona Foundation
Mark Hopkins, Director of International Energy Efficiency, United Nations Foundation
James Pennay, General Manager, Wind Prospect (China) Ltd and Founding Board Member of China Carbon Forum

Working group 4

Effectiveness of international climate funding

Chair:
Victor D. Norman, Professor Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration

Panellists:
Eric Beinhocker, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
Nitin Desai, Former Secretary-General of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General for the World Summit on the Information Society
Jose Alberto Garibaldi, Director General of Energeia, Consultant UK Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Charles McNeill, Environment Programme Team Manager and Biodiversity Conservation & Poverty Reduction Advisor, UNDP

Working group 5

How to build the domestic coalitions needed for transformational politics and technological development? 

Chair:
Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway, Member of the Club of Madrid

Panellists:
Kristin Halvorsen, Minister of Finance, Norway
Bård Harstad, Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Ruud Lubbers, Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Chairman of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative Council
Manuel Marín González, Professor, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, former Speaker of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies; former Vice President and interim President of the European Commission

20:00

Dinner
Dinner speaker: Elliot Morley, President, GLOBE International

Friday 6 June 2008

08:30

09:30 – 12:30

Plenary session

Presentation of session recommendations by WG chairs
Discussion on the CC8 Technology and Finance in Climate Co-operation final document
Moderator: Gunnar Eskeland, Senior Research Fellow, CICERO

Coffee break

Closing session
Ricardo Lagos, Former President of Chile, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President of the Club of Madrid

Question & answer session
Moderator: Frances Cairncross

 Closing Words
 Ricardo Lagos
 Frederic Hauge
 Christian Berg

 Press conference