1. Meeting of the Environment Policy Committee at Ministerial Level
  2. Agenda

Wednesday 28 September 2016

 

  • 9:00 - WELCOME - Nick Smith, Minister for the Environment, New Zealand, and Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

  • 9:30 - SESSION I - CLIMATE CHANGE: KEY CHALLENGES MOVING FORWARD

    • Drew Shindell, Chair of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) Scientific Advisory Panel, Professor of Climate Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, USA

    • Roger Pulwarty, IPPC Convening Lead Author on Adaptation Planning and Implementation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

       

  • 13:00 - SOCIAL LUNCH


  • 15:00 - PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS (see below)


  • 18:00 - COCKTAIL (all participants)


  • 19:15 - 21:30 - DINNER (Ministers and Heads of Delegations only)

    • Kate Brandt, Lead for Sustainability at Google, Inc.

Agenda and Issues Paper

 

 

 

Wednesday 28 September 2016 - 15:00-18:00 - Breakout sessions

 


A I R   P O L L U T I O N   F R O M   T R A N S P O R T

  


B I O D I V E R S I T Y

  • Facilitator - Carole Dieschbourg, Minister of the Environment, Luxembourg

  • Jean-Christophe Béziat, Director for institutional relations for Environment & Innovation, Renault, France
  • Martine Meyer, Expert leader for air quality and substances, Renault, France
  • Olaf Merk, Project Manager, Ports and Shipping, International Transport Forum, France
  • Michelle Harding, Senior Economist, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
  
  • Facilitator - Kimmo Tiilikainen, Minister of Agriculture and the Environment, Finland

Part 1 - Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Sectors
  • Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Vice-President for Conservation Policy, Conservation International, Former Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica

Part 2 - Effective Management of Marine Protected Areas

  • Graham Edgar, Professor, Institute for Marine and Antartic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
     


N I T R O G E N

  


W A T E R

  • Facilitator - Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany

  • Penny Johnes, Professor of Biogeochemistry, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
  
  • Facilitator - Marcelo Mena Carrasco, Vice Minister of Environment, Chile

Part 1 - Financing Investment in Water Security
  • Herman Borst, Director of Staff, Delta Programme Commissioner, The Netherlands

Part 1 - Part 2 - Urban Water Pollution
  • Célia Blauel, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Environment, Sustainable Development, Water, and of the Climate-Energy Action Plan, France

Thursday 29 September 2016

 

  • 9:00 - SESSION II - RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND THE TRANSITION TOWARDS THE CIRUCLAR ECONOMY
  • 13:00 - WORKING LUNCH - MINISTERS DIALOGUE WITH BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES ON THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
  • 14:45 - END OF THE MEETING