Conference

Margot WALLSTRÖM, Vice President, European Commission

H.E. Mary ROBINSON, Vice President, Club of Madrid, Former President of Ireland

H.E. Gro Harlem BRUNDTLAND, Member, Club of Madrid, Former Prime Minister of Norway

Joao GOMES CRAVINHO, Secretary of State, Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (TBC)

Guido SACCONI, Chairman of the Climate Change Committee, European Parliament

Moderator: Fiona Harvey, Financial Times

Introduction by: Lise Kingo, Executive Vice President, Novo Nordisk

Graham Smith, Senior Vice President External Affairs, Toyota Motor Europe

Andrew Fisk, Director External Relations, Fabric and Home Care Global Business Unit, Procter & Gamble

Luigi Mengoli, Supply Chain Director, Heineken

A round table session will follow the presentation with members from Respect Table: Fortum, IKEA, Novo Nordisk, Osram, Reed Elsevier, SKF, Triodos Bank and Whirlpool.

Moderator: Fiona Harvey, FinancialTimes

Yvo De Boer, the Chair of the UNFCCC, would like 3 outcomes from Bali:

1. agreement to launch inclusive negotiations on a comprehensive post-2012 framework
2. agreement on the structure of those negotiations, including the key elements to be negotiated; and
3. agreement on a timetable for concluding those negotiations

The communiqué will include a strong call for negotiations to begin in Bali, with a view to completing them by 2009. We would like the workshops to respond to Yvo’s second request and develop thinking about how this group can best make a positive contribution to the negotiations between 2007 and 2009.

Therefore, each workshop will tackle the following questions:

1. What should be the key principles and/or elements of the post-2012 negotiations under each heading?
2. How can we, as representatives of key civil society groups, best organize an inclusive discussion process to build on this conference and make a positive contribution to the debate between now and 2009?

The outputs will be a series of bullet points which will be included in the communiqué as Annexes.

Expert 1: Pankaj Bathia, World Resource Institute and the Green House Protocol

Expert 2: Steward Maginnis, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Head Forest Conservation Programme

Business: Monitor, Measure and set Targets, Business Leaders Initiative on Climate Change - BLICC

Parliamentarian: Anders Wijkman, Member European Parliament, Member Climate Change Committee, Chairman of Globe EU

NGO: Stephan Singer, Head of European Climate and Energy Unit, WWF

Expert: Salvano Briceño, Director of UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR)

Parliamentarian: Steen Gade, Danish Folketinget and President of Globe Europe

NGO: John Sauven, Executive Director, Greenpeace UK

Institution: Derek Osborn, President,  Sustainable Development Observatory - European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

Expert: Lewis Milford, President, Clean Energy Group

Business: Kate Hampton, Head of Policy, Climate Change Capital

Parliamentarian: Michael Kauch, German Bundestag

NGO: Frederic Hauge, President, Bellona Foundation

Margot WALLSTRÖM, Vice President, European Commission
H.E. Mary ROBINSON, Vice President, Club of Madrid, Former President of Ireland
H.E. Gro Harlem BRUNDTLAND, Member, Club of Madrid, Former Prime Minister of Norway

2. Presentation of final communiqué, with workshop conclusions as annexes

3. Concluding remarks

Stavros DIMAS, European Commissioner for Environment, European Commission