Hamburg City Climate Conference’09 First Annual Conference of the Covenant of Mayors

Conference Programme

Monday | 16 November 2009 Chamber of Commerce

19:00 Get together hosted by the Senate of

Welcome speeches: Anja Hajduk , Senator for Urban Development and Environment, City of Hamburg Frank Horch , President of Hamburg Chamber of Commerce Dr. Michael Otto , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Otto Group and founder of the initiative "2° - German CEOs for Climate Protection"

Tuesday | 17 November 2009 Congress Center Hamburg (CCH) and Town Hall

Conference host Mishal Husain , BBC World

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome Address

Ole von Beust , First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

09:10 - 09:30 Plenary Session

Cities’ Joint Strategy: Invitation to World’s Cities to Join the EU Initiative Covenant of Mayors

Matthias Ruete , Director-General for Energy and Transport, European Commission

09:30 - 10:30 Keynote speech

"Third Industrial Revolution and the Future of the City" Jeremy Rifkin , President of the Foundation on Economic Trends

10:30 - 11:45 Cities in Dialogue with Experts

Cities and Energy: Zero Emission Energy Supply – a Chance or a Ruin?

Dr. Eric Martinot , Senior Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies

Panel discussion:

Raouf Dabbas , Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Environment, Amman , Jordan Jane Drejer Nielsen , Chief Project Manager, Technical and Environmental Administration, Copenhagen , Denmark Suzanne Malec-McKenna , Commissioner, City of Chicago , Department of Environment speaks at the City Club of Chicago, USA Josef Monatzeder , Third Mayor of Munich , Pekka Sauri , Deputy Mayor of Helsinki , Finland Gunnar Söderholm , Director of the Environment and Health Administration, Stockholm , Sweden

12:00 - 13:15 Cities in Dialogue with Experts

Cities and Transport: Mobile Quality of Life

Francois Bellanger , Director Transit-City, Sociologist and Consultant

Panel discussion:

Leonid Bochin , Minister of the Moscow City Government, Head of the Moscow City Nature Management and Environmental Protection Department, Moscow , Russia Adam Kimbisa , Mayor of Dar es Salaam , Tansania Erich Valentin , Municipal Council, Member of the Vienna Parliament, Chairman of the Environment Committee, Vienna , Austria Marijke Vos , Alderwoman for Environment, Amsterdam , Netherlands

14:15 - 14:30 Plenary Session

Europe Takes Responsibility: Importance of the EU Initiative Covenant of Mayors

Claude Turmes , Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chairman of the Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance

14:30 - 15:30 Parallel Sessions

1. Covenant of Mayors: Ambitious Action to Achieve Ambitious Targets: Sustainable Energy Action Plans

Moderator: Ulrike Janssen , Covenant of Mayors Office

Speakers: ››› Ronald PIERS-DE-RAAVESCHOOT , Joint Research Centre of the European Commission ››› Christian MAAß , State Councillor for Urban Development and Environment, City of Hamburg ››› Pierre-Loïc Nihoul , Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign ››› Muharrem Demirok , City Councillor, Linköping, Sweden

2. Covenant of Mayors: The Role of Supporting Structures and Energy Agencies in Achieving the Covenant Objectives

Moderator: Kristina DELY , Head of Covenant of Mayors Office

Speakers: ››› Franceso de Sárraga Mateo , Barcelona Provincial Council ››› Gerhard Urbanczyk , City of Munich ››› Markus Siehr , Stuttgart Region ››› Camelia Rata (tbc), ABMEE, Brasov Energy Agency ››› Emilio D’Alessio , Local Agenda 21, Italy

3. The Consistency of Urban Development and Adaptation to Climate Change: Joint Strategy and Consequences for Spatial Planning, Land Use and Waterfront Development

4. LG Action – Identifying support to help European local governments tackle climate change more effectively

16:00 - 17:15 Plenary Session

Urban Economics and CO2 Reduction – Cities’ Needs in Financing the Battle against Climate Change

Juan Alario , Direktor, Energy Efficiency and Renewables, Transport and Energy Department, European Investment Bank Pedro Ballesteros Torres , Principal Administrator, DG Energy and Transport, EU Commission Ronan Dantec , Vice-President des Communauté Urbaine of Nantes Métropole , Mayor of Tübingen, Germany Peter D. Thomson , Director of the Sustainable Development Department of the Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank Jutta Volmer , Senior Project Manager, KfW Carbon Fund, KfW Bankgruppe

17:30 - 18:00 Keynote speech

"Climate Change Challenges: the Facts We Need to Know" Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif , Climate scientist, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University (IFM-GEOMAR)

20:00 - 22:00 Gala Dinner, Town Hall

Dinner speeches: , Second Mayor of Hamburg Dr. Anna Tibaijuka (tbc), Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN- HABITAT) Representative of the German government

Wednesday | 18 November 2009 Congress Center Hamburg (CCH)

09:30 - 10:00 Plenary Session

The Future of the City – The Future of Resources

Prof. Herbert Girardet , Director of Programmes, World Future Council Nicholas You , Chief of Policy and Strategic Planning, UN-HABITAT

10:00 - 11:30 Plenary Session

Mayors and Cities' Representatives Discuss the Cities' Requests and Hopes for Copenhagen

Roger Read , Secretary General METREX Yunus Arikan , Manager of the Cities Climate Center of ICLEI

12:00 - 12:30 Joint signature and press conference

Joint signature of the Hamburg Conference’s Conclusion followed by a press conference with mayors, representatives of the Covenant of Mayors and NGO’s

14:30 - 17:00 Study Tours

Parallel study tours on how the City of Hamburg and Hamburg-based companies and institutions implement sustainability policies

››› HafenCity Hamburg: Sustainable Inner City Development. Concepts and Market Initiatives Guided tour to HafenCity Hamburg ››› The climate protection concept "Renewable Wilhelmsburg" – creating a climate-neutral city Guided tour to the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Hamburg (International Building Exhibition Hamburg)

››› Hamburg, a centre of excellence for climate research. KlimaCampus Hamburg Guided tour to the German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth System Research (DKRZ) ››› How does global change affect the coastal system? Coastal research in the face of climate change: tools, assessments, and scenarios for managing coastal landscapes Guided tour to the Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH

››› Algae consumes CO2 at an "algae power station" – alternative biomass production in dense urban environments Guided tour to the TERM microalgae test facility plus a discussion on applications of the principle of biomass production that would be feasible at urban locations

››› Expedition Cimate Change: Calling Planet Earth Guided tour to the Planetarium Hamburg

››› Balancing ecology with economy: environmental partnerships with Hamburg businesses:

››› Guided tour to Hamburg Airport ››› Guided tour to the Hamburg Wasser (Waterworks) ››› Guided tour to Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA)