We kindly invite you to join the Ecofys side events and presentations during the UNFCCC climate change conference in Copenhagen from 7 December to 18 December.

Selecting mitigation targets and financing the efforts in 2020

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

The event will first give an overview of the global emissions that are allowed to keep global warming below 2°C. It will then discuss how this budget can be split among countries, in particular between Annex I countries. It finally will show ways to finance emission reductions in developing countries.

Speakers:

Oras Tynkkynen, Climate Policy Specialist in the Prime Minister’s Office of Finland (Chair), Tommi Ekholm, VTT, Michel den Elzen, PBL, Dr. Niklas Höhne, Ecofys

13.00pm – 15.00pm
EU Pavillion

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Emission reduction efforts by developed and developing countries: Will there be enough for meeting the two-degree target?

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Key question of the side-event: Are the developed and developing countries’ current proposals for Copenhagen, including those by the United States, sufficient for reducing emissions to limit global warming to a temperature rise of 2°C?

Speakers:
Michel den Elzen, Jasper van Vliet, Stephan Slingerland, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, PBL and Dr. Niklas Höhne, Ecofys

15.30pm – 17.30pm
EU Pavillion

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Benchmarking based allocation methodology for the EU ETS post 2012

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Panel by the IETA (International Emission Trading Association). Maarten Neelis will reflect on the benchmark based allocation methodology for the EU ETS post 2012 and also will discuss whether these benchmarks can play role also outside the EU. Mainly from a technical point of view, he will discuss the challenges in using benchmarking in the post Kyoto climate regime.

Speaker:

Maarten Neelis, Ecofys

13.00pm – 14.30pm
Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, room “Mount Everest”

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Leveraging private sector expertise through engagement in the international climate change policy process

Saturday, 12 December 2009

This side event will introduce an EU study which aims to identify how the international climate change policy process can effectively leverage private sector expertise and engagement. In a partnership between the WBCSD, Ecofys and Climate Focus, this side event will present the project overview and provide an opportunity for open discussion and feedback.

Speakers:
Didier Herbert, Head of Unit, DG Enterprise & Industry, European Commission; Antonia Gawel, WBCSD and Marion Vieweg, Ecofys

15.30pm – 17.30pm
EU Pavillion, room “Monnet”

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Forest day 3 - poster presentation on:
Solution through synergies – REDD & sectoral approaches

Sunday, 13 December 2009

Forest day 3 will take place alongside COP15 and will be hosted by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, the Government of Denmark and CIFOR. It will bring together stakeholders from the forest and climate change communities to look beyond Copenhagen, at the issues related to implementation of the Copenhagen outcomes.

The Radisson SAS
Falconer Hotel

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Ecofys at the Eneco side-event

European Energy scenarios: from theory to practice (SERPEC)

Monday, 14 December 2009

Kornelis Blok will present the new mitigation cost curves that Ecofys prepared for the entire European Union. The databases contain detailed information on mitigation potentials and costs per country, per sector and per gas. The net costs for society to reduce EU’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 by 45% compared to 1990 turn out to be very modest.

Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Kornelis Blok, Ecofys

15.00pm – 17.00pm
Holland Climate House

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More information

If you have further questions, please send an e-mail to info@ecofys.com.