Lord Browne Dinner: Financing low carbon technologies in Europe

Starts

12:00AM, 15 March 2010

Ends

12:00AM, 15 March 2010

Location

Brussels

This event is Invite Only.

The roundtable with the EU-commission senior officials and business representatives will focus on how the post-Copenhagen EU diplomacy and domestic energy and climate change policy can accelerate financing for a low carbon economy.

Central issues for discussion will be:

1. The move to an unconditional 30% CO₂ emission reduction target;
2. Binding energy efficiency targets;
3. Mainstreaming climate change in the EU 2020 Strategy for jobs, competitiveness and growth;
4. Financing the Strategic Energy Technology Plan and the EU budget priorities and financial perspectives.

Other questions that will arise are:

1. How can EU policy make a low carbon economy investable?
2. What are the barriers to financing renewable energy?
3. How can Public-Private Partnerships be further strengthened?

Participants will include high-level representatives from:

• DG Climate action
• DG Energy
• The power sector (e.g. Iberdrola, Scottish Power, Alstom)
• Financial institutions (e.g. Munich Re, HSBC, European Investment Bank)
• Clean tech providers (e.g. Better Place, Johnson Controls, Cisco, Siemens, Suntech)

Results of the discussions will be communicated to the Spring Council on 25 March 2010