Dinner Debate: The Ideal City in the Twenty First Century
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 from 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM

1- The Ideal City Projects, Independent in Energy and Zero Carbon

 •  Energy, transport and waste management in the ideal city
 •  The ideal city project of the Emirat d’Abu Dhabi (Masdar)
 •  Other projects in the world (notably the “green” city of Dongtan in Shanghai))
 •  The ideal city projects in Europe (London)


2- The Realistic City of Tomorrow

 •  What place is there for individual vehicles (automobile, bicycle, motorcycle)
 •  Evolution pf public transportation
 •  Evolution of the habitat
 •  Social Mixture

Dinner Debate: How Do Company Executives Anticipate the Changes?
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 from 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM

• Need: how to follow more closely the tastes and the ways of life of consumers, the evolution of purchasing power, the level of activity and the solvency of different areas of the world?
• Oil, electricity, gas...how to anticipate and manage in the long run the changing price of energy? Should we commit ones company or ones group in heavy investments destined to see the progressive end of the oil resource?
• Supply: how to secure the need for raw materials (steel, plastics, agricultural materials...)?
• Sustainable development: how to place the life and development of the company in a time line that surpasses the decade?
• In short, how to run a large company in an environment that is evolving more and more quickly? what are the tools, the precepts, the state of mind, which enable us to envision the future, despite the continuous pressure of the present?

 

ParticipantsDinner Debate around Four Company Leaders
Guests change tables in between each dish

The Communication of Sustainable Development
Wednesday, December 3rd 2008, from 9:00AM - 12:00PM

1/Sustainable development and communication:
•    Does sustainable development raise the « general policy of the firm » or is it only a component of its communication policy and of its social marketing policy?
•    The green market excess: campaigns and boomerang effects
•    Examples of campaign themes on the ecological advantage: objectives, results of post tests.

2/How to write the sustainable development report? How to propose the policy to the eco-person in charge for his company?
•    Stages of the composition of this report
•    Contents & organization
•    Assistance & advisors
•    What global communication policy relates to matters of eco-responsibility?

The Role of Local Authorities in Sustainable Development
Thursday, November 14th 2008, from 9:00am - 12:00pm

1- Regional Community: Very Brief Reminder of the Respective Roles and Methods Available
•    City / District / Department
•    Managing budgets, availability of resources

2- The Role of Regional Communities in Sustainable Development
•    Managing waste
•    City Planning
•    Education of the public
•    Developmental projects
•    Creation of special zones « sustainable development »

3- Communicating on the Actions Carried Out
•    Sustainable development communication plan

4- Examples of the Eco-City Concept
•    China
•    Netherlands
•    Abu Dhabi

CCIP (Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Commodity Exchange,
Salle Baltard, 2 rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris

Green Chemistry / Plant Chemistry
Wednesday, November 19th and Thursday, November 20th

1- What do we Call Green Chemistry?

• Chemistry without oil? Chemistry respecting the environment? (differentiate between green chemistry, sustainable chemistry and plant chemistry)                                                    
• Which product and by-product families are involved?
• What is the theoretical origin and what is the current application of the concept of green chemistry?
• Is a regulation framework being prepared?

2- Plant Chemistry and Post Oil

• The necessary development of plant chemistry (bio-carburant, biomaterials and bio-molecules have a limited greenhouse gas effect and are obtained in part from renewable raw materials).
• The current state of plant chemistry (how much can we actually produce) and perspectives for six years

Recycling: Obligations, Organization, Consequences
Wednesday, September 24th from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

1- Recycling of Used Products
-Creating and maintaining an optimized recycling system for used products (reintroduction of products in the cycle or recovery of the material: plastic, scrap metal...)
-Reduction at the source, recycling, recovering: Common obligations in all categories of waste: The recycling regulation, internal law and European law
-Obligations which weigh essentially on the manufacturers – the residual but significant role of local communities in matters of household and similar waste
-The importance of the concept of the manufacturers “expanded” responsibility”: Tires, disabled vehicles, electrical and electronic equipment…and its impact in terms of eco-design
-Difficulties due to the legal definition of waste (Communication of the March 2007 Commission)
-The course to follow in the matter of recycling agricultural plastic, tires and batteries
- Recycling: An economical and profitable activity?
 
2- Recycling Products/Materials: Would This Allow Moderate Pricing of Raw Materials?
Can the pricing of steel and plastics be moderated by a recycling systematization of these two resources?
•    Steel/Plastic: Production forecasts and expectations of demand
•    Evaluation of quantities recycled and quantities consumed
•    Introduction of the different recycling circuits
•    Evaluation of intrinsic qualities of the product obtained from recycled materials
•    Recyclable materials vs. non recyclable materials
•    How to optimize the quantities recycled: By imposing restrictive rules? By rethinking the networks? By modifying the materials?

Office of Baker & McKenzie, 1 rue Paul Baudry, 75008 Paris

Engaging and Investing in Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy
Thursday, May 22, 2008 from 9:00 to 12:00

1/Does renewable energy and sustainable development comprise of sectors that are open to the entrepreneurial initiative?

• Reminder of capitalistic and industrial constraints linked to ENR (renewable energy) by energy families (photovoltaic, wind power, biomass
• Risk assessment
• Market volume and financial constraints
• Volume of essential investment
• Time limit to profit on invested capital

2/State of the Initiatives and Finances

• Monograph (census) of start-ups linked to renewable energy and sustainable development
• Example of a few young companies (waste management, hydrogen, biomass…)
• Who are the potential investors and those genuinely active? The committed volume (France, Germany, USA, Japan)?
• Are the ENR (renewable energy) in reality under-funded? How do we ensure that the appointed investments correspond to the importance of the issue?
• Regulatory and societal constraints

3/Industrial Investments / Financial Investments

• What is the investment policy of the industrial players (oilmen, electricians, gasmen, but also the equipment suppliers and the transformation industrialists)?
• What is the policy for investment funds and venture capital?
• Do appointed funds answer correctly to the importance of the issues?

Participants

AGF Private Equity - Nicolas Chaudron, Head of Cleantech Investments

Bryan and Garnier - Sébastien of Blégiers, Analyst

Gas de France (French gas company) - Raoul Arvengas, Head of Capital-Development

Schneider Electric - Ignace of Prest, Investment Partner

 

Moderator : Jean Rognetta, Journaliste Les Echos

Eco-conception, Purchasing and Sustainable Development
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 8.30am - 2pm

8.30 am - 11.30 am: HOW TO IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL VALUE ADD OF YOUR PRODUCTS?

• How to integrate value into your supply chain by developing a more environmentally friendly product range.
• Eco-design: Which strategy? Which Eco-label should businesses choose?

12 pm - 2 pm: PURCHASING DEPARTMENTS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• What is the area covered by purchasing? What form does this take with suppliers: a purchasing charter?
• What is the impact of recycling on the products on suppliers’ portfolios? Is purchasing even more key in product design?
• What are the unanticipated effects of the legal constraints related to sustainable development and the other initiatives that accompany them?
• How is it possible to verify that suppliers are actually submitting to the new constraints decreed by sustainable development policy?
• From now on, how can work that goes even further than this context be evaluated? How can its impact be measured? Which indicators should you use?

Participants

• SAGEM - Garry Mc Cullagh, Research and Development Management
• ELIS - Gilles Delteil, Quality Security Environment Director
• ALCATEL LUCENT - Hélène Fauvé, Purchasing and Global Procurement Management
• L'OREAL - Ariane Thomas, General Management of Purchasing

Moderator : Laure Mandaron, Eric Mugnier, Ernst & Young

Dinner Debate on Sustainable Development
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 7pm - 10.30pm

Introduction by Benoît Gabrielle, researcher, INRA Paris Grignon
- Characteristics of biofuels by product family
- Competition with food for access to agricultural resources
- What will really effect the general implementation of the second generation agro fuels?

1/A typology of biofuels
- What are the different types of biofuels? What are their possible and likely uses? To what percentage will they be diluted in petrol? Can they be used in their “pure” form? What improvements will we see in second generation fuels?
- Who are the companies producing these fuels (agricultural cooperatives, chemical companies, oil companies…)?
- How available are they on the market in France and abroad?

2/Energy efficiency and manufacture
- Efficiency: tons per hectare by plant family
- Efficiency: energy required / energy produced
- Which are the agricultural areas available outside of the competition with food resources?

3/Advantages/Disadvantages of biofuels
- As a compliment to oil: CO2 assessment of the growing, manufacture and combustion of biofuels
- As a substitute for oil: What is the maximum quantity that can be produced? What could the consequences of the wide use of biofuels be on agriculture and the food processing industry?

4/Current state policies
- What is the position of France?
- What is the position of the European Union?
- What is the position of the United States?
- What is the position of Brazil?

Conclusion: what place can biofuels have in the energy mix?
What changes can we expect in state policies for this area?

 

Participants

Michèle Pappalardo, Commissioner General for Sustainable Development MEDAD

Thérèse Martinet, Director of Public Relations and the Environment, PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN

Christian Coutin, Sustainable Development Manager, GROUPE SEB

Gilles Vermot-Desroches, Sustainable Development Manager, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Nathalie Stubler, Sustainable Development Manager, AIR FRANCE

Claude Nahon, Sustainable Development Director, EDF

Moderator : Thierry De Cassan Floyrac, Director General, SYNERTRADE YTAE

How to Reduce the Carbon Mark?
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 9am - 12pm

The carbon mark
• The framework
• The panorama of CO2 emissions
• Issues
• Developments and trends

Different carbon strategies: Location and corporation
• Why the company decides to determine its carbon mark?
• What are the implemented means?
• Actions: What are the levers that can reduce CO2 emissions? What are the first results?

Participants

 

• BUREAU VERITAS: Mickael Sigda, Head of the Audits and Performance Department
• BUREAU VERITAS: Antoine Lesieur, Operations Manager of QSE management systems
• NATURE ET DECOUVERTES: Etienne Ruth, Sustainable Development Director
• AIR LIQUIDE: Eric Sebellin, Director Energy Purchase and Optimization
• MEDAD: Régis Meyer, Head of the Energy Department in the MIES (Inter-ministerial Mission for Greenhouse Effects)
  
  
  

Moderator : ENABLON: Emmanuel Ferreira, Head of Industrial Development and Partnerships