Global Eco Forum 2015 by REVOLVE

Barcelona, 22-23 October 2015 Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site

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#GEF2015 host

ted by Sant Pau Sant Pau Recinte Modernista C. Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 167 08025 Barcelona www.santpaubarcelona.org INTRODUCTION

Foreword

Program

Day 1- Urban Energy Forum

Day 2- Climate Eco Forum

Speakers

Partners

CONTENTS

CONTENT

FOREWORD FOREWORD

Follow us: @global_ecoforum 2015 is a critical year for the global sustainability agenda. First, innovative financial tools and economic mechanisms to support international development and cooperation were launched in Ethiopia in July. Then, seventeen ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were approved in New York in September with concrete environmental, economic and social targets to be reached by all countries. Finally, the twenty-first Conference of the Parties (also known as CoP) will bring together thousands of world leaders in Paris this December to commit to combating climate change. With now more than half of the global population living in urban areas and producing about 75% of carbon emissions, it is becoming clear that the race towards sustainability will be won or lost in the cities. To contribute positively to this necessary transition in urban areas, Barcelona – as a living laboratory for smart urbanism, environmental policies and citizen participation – is hosting once again the Global Eco Forum now in its 8th year. And for the first time, we are honored to be co-organizing this year’s forum with B01 arquitectes – an innovative architects firm about making sustainable buildings – and with Revolve Media – a communications agency geared towards fostering cultures of sustainability. We are delighted to have worked together on creating a photography exhibition about sustainable initiatives that is on display in the streets of Barcelona before moving to other cities. The Global Eco Forum also encourages solid commitment and momentum towards the Paris CoP21 UN climate conference. Our 2-day event gathers high level political, social and economic leaders from around Europe and

Engage with us: #GEF2015 the Mediterranean region to address the disruptive transformations that are reshaping the relationships between Energy, Climate and Cities. We wish to express our gratitude to our partners for the critical role each one plays in making the annual Global Eco Forum a reality. We are all sharing the same goal is to catalyze the transition to more sustainable communities around the Mediterranean and garantee a better future for all of us. With the ambition of expanding our geographic focus, we hope to strengthen the eco fora as innovative and inspiring flagship events towards a more prosperous and inclusive Euro-Mediterranean society in which all voices are heard and concrete initiatives can be highlighted and connected to others to open new common opportunities. We invite all change-makers and actors from different sectors to join our platform and to showcase their solutions. So let’s keep connected and involved through our social networks and web: www.global-ecoforum.org

Jérémie Fosse

Sander Laudy

Stuart Reigeluth

DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBAL ECO FORUM & PRESIDENT OF ECO-UNION

ARCHITECT / DIRECTOR OF B01 ARQUITECTES

FOUNDER OF REVOLVE MEDIA

FOREWORD

PROGRAM

22/10 DAY ONE: URBAN ENERGY FORUM THE ENERGY REVOLUTION FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES Mobility, manufacturing, housing, food, and waste are all energy-related urban phenomena that require creative solutions to reduce their environmental impact. Valuable ingredients like density, technologies, behaviors and infrastructures can enable bold progress in the race towards zero-carbon cities. The Urban Energy forum brings together leading international experts to discuss disruptive initiatives and ideas on how to promote, develop and radically transform urban areas so that they become genuinely more sustainable, self-sufficient and resilient.

9:00-9:3O

WELCOME by JĂŠrĂŠmie Fosse, director of Eco-union, eco-forum & Sander Laudy, architect/ director of B01 arquitectes

9:30-11:00

THE GREAT URBAN ENERGY REVOLUTION

How will cities manage the evolution from centralized energy grids to carbon-neutral and self-sufficient networks, providing energy for all? What is the role of power utilities, technological suppliers, citizens and local administrations to construct and manage sustainable energy infrastructures that secure the supply of energy as a social asset?

> Jose Etcheverry, professor, York University > Angel Gonzalo, production director, Gas Natural > Merce Rius, director, Catalan Energy Institute > Stefan Schurig, director, Climate & Energy, World Future Council l

Moderator: Stuart Reigeluth, founder, Revolve Media

11:00-11:30

Coffee break 11:30-13:00

LOW EMISSIONS MOBILITY Low carbon mobility solutions are available but are still restricted to a very few. How to overcome the gap between technology, consumer behaviors and economic sustainability to mainstream low emissions mobility in cities? Moderator: Sander Laudy, architect, Green Building Council Spain

> Greg Archer, clean vehicles manager, Transport & Environment > Andreas RĂ¸hl, associate, Gehl Architects & former mobility director, City of Copenhaguen > Vincent Rosso, founder, BlaBlaCar Spain > Manuel Valdes, mobility and infrastructure deputy director, City of Barcelona

13:00-14:00

Networking Lunch (separate registration)

22/10 PROGRAM

14:00-15:30

ARTICIPATIVE WORKSHOPS P ON ENERGY IN CITIES* (*in parallel) Resources, buildings, waste, food, energy consumption and production, citizens… All these factors can establish a more sustainable urban ecosystem for our cities. A rigorous integration of them all can create enormous synergies, but we have to first establish clearly, which are the problems to be solved. In these workshops all participants interact to get to a shared statement concerning the specific themes.

#1 ENERGY & BUILDING:

#2 WASTE & CITIES

How can buildings become carbon neutral, both reducing the amount of KWh they need to be comfortable and at the same time producing their own energy? And where is the biggest gap to be closed: in the building or in the behavior of the user?

How do we manage all the waste that we produce so abundantly in cities? How much of them can we recycle, and turn into nutrients for new products, and how much of it all should simply be avoided by not consuming the wat we do right now?

> Michel Wassouf, Passivhaus

> Marceli Sugrañes, director ROSA Gres

> Josep Ricart, H-arquitectes

> Fernando Gabirondo, Interface

> Eulalia Figuerola, GBC España

> Verocnica Kuchinow, founder Symbiosy

Moderator: Gloria Gomez, PhD architect cc60

> Josep Simó, Agencia de Residus de Catalunya > Ignasi Puig, ENT consultancy Moderator: Carlo Pesso, editor Renweable Matter

#3 ENERGY & CITIZENS

#4 FOOD & WASTE

New technologies are provoking drastic changes in the relationship between consumers and producers of energy. How do we manage this transition in electricity networks in such a way that clean energy becomes available to everybody? And what should we pay for energy?

Food comes from far and wrapped in plastic. If we continue this we, it will continue to cause large quantities of CO2 emissions and waste. Which models (Slow Food, 0KM, Season Food) can change this system? And can adapted regulations help push in this direction?

> Alfons Pérez, Xarxa per la Soberanía

> Pilar Chiva, Agencia de Residus

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> Ricard Álvarez, Plan Energia Participativa

> David Esteller, AECOC

> Oriol Gavalda, Aiguasol Engineering

> Gaby Susanna, Aprofitem els Aliments

> Nuria Palmada, Somenergia

> Charo Saavedra, Danone

> Teresa Battle, ASA Moderator: Oriol Giménez

> Fundació Banc dels Aliments Moderator: Mariajo Maroto, eco-union

22/10 PROGRAM

15:30-16:00

Coffee break 16:00-17:30

PRODUCTIVE, HEALTHY AND RESILIENT CITIES Z Cities are going to suffer increasing disruptions due to climate change, geopolitical tensions, technological breakthroughs and demographic explosion. How to increase their capacity and capability to react to such unpredictable developments while guaranteeing quality of life for all citizens within the limits of our planet

>A lessandro Galli, head of Mediterranean, Global Footprint Network > Dan Lewis, head of City Resilience, UN Habitat > Ridha Abassi, mayor, city of Kasserine, Tunisia > Richard Bellingham, director, Institute for future Cities > Eva Herrero, commissioner for ecology, Barcelona City Hall oderator: M Cristina Mas, senior journalist, Ara

17:30-18:00

Conclusions workshops & plenary sessions by facilitators and commissioner 18:00-20:00

Guided electric-bus tour to ECO-energies zero-CO2 energy central 19:00-20:00 side event

Eurosolar Spain Award Ceremony

20:00-22:00

Cocktail & Live Music (separate registration)

Energy Tour

Thursday, 22 October 18:00-20:00 The sustainable energy tour will take participants on an electric bus to the Ecoenergies district heating and cooling plant in the Zona Franca district of Barcelona. This central provides energy, cold and heat, from carbon neutral sources like biomass from the forests of Collserola, solar photovoltaic and recycled cold coming from the adjacent liquefied gas plant in the port of Barcelona.

23/10 DAY TWO: CLIMATE ECO FORUM THE PATH TOWARDS A GLOBAL CLIMATE AGREEMENT IN PARIS The 2015 Paris Climate Conference (also known as CoP21) will be one of the largest international events ever held on climate change. This Conference, planned in Paris in December 2015, must result in an international agreement to limit global warming to below 2°C. This Forum will therefore discuss the common challenges and economic opportunities behind the fight against climate change in the EuroMediterranean region and update the participants on the state of negotiations on the road the UNFCCC climate talks in Paris

9:00-9:3O

WELCOME Jérémie Fosse, director, eco-forum & opening by Janet Sanz, vice-mayor for ecology, Barcelona City Hall, and Eduard Beslay, general consul for France in Barcelona

9:30-11:00

THE RESOURCE, ENERGY AND WATER NEXUS In a climate change era with unreliable access to water, energy and raw materials, how can we promote the sustainable use and management of natural resources in territories and industries without harming economic and social development of the region? Moderator: Kristian Petrick, director, All Green Energies & eco-union

> JesĂşs Calderer, mayor of Cesc & vicedeputy for environment, Barcelona Provincial Council > Manel Giraldo, sustainability director, AGBAR > Michael Scoullos, chairman, MIO-ECSDE & Global Water Partnership-Med > Samantha Smith, leader, Global Climate & Energy Initiative, WWF

11:00-11:30

Coffee and networking 11:30-13:00

FINANCING AND BUILDING LOW CARBON, GREEN & INCLUSIVE ECONOMY Shifting to a low carbon economy requires massive public and private investments into cleaner infrastructures and greener businesses. How can we manage this ecological transition towards a green and more inclusive economy? Moderator: Lluis Amiguet, journalist, La Vanguardia

> Javier Albarracin, socio-economic director, European Institute of the Mediterranean > Herve Levite, senior expert, Centre for Mediterranean Integration & World Bank > Mohammed Sefiani, Mayor, City of Chefchaouen, Morocco >Marta Subira, director for environmental policies, Government of Catalonia >Eva Bufi, director, PPP for Cities

13:00-14:00

Networking Lunch (separate registration)

23/10 PROGRAM

14:00-15:30

PARTICIPATIVE WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE, SDGS AND CITIZENS* (*in parallel) Those parallel workshops explore the role of stakeholders, citizens, NGO’s, businesses, local authorities and regional entities to promote greener communities and low carbon economy. Participants will share concrete climate initiatives and reflect on how to scale them up

#1 CITIZENS AND CLIMATE Powered by: Caixa Foundation

#2 CAPITALISM, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SUSTAINABILITY

What are the roles of citizens to develop, support and implement commitments against climate change?

Powered by: Conscious Capitalism Can business, entrepreneurs and capitalism incorporate sustainability and stakeholders’ interest?

> Alicia Torrego, Conama

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> Ignasi Lopez, Caixa Foundation > Antonio Calvo, AECC > Maties Serracant, Sabadell City hall Moderator: Susana Pascual, COAMB

José Mª Ayuso, La Viña del Vero Jordi Gali, VanAPedal Alberto López Rey, ecoavantis Roger Garcia, SCP/RAC Taha Amiar, Massolia Moderator: Sven Kallen, CC Barcelona

#3 CREATIVITY & SUSTAINABILITY Experiential workshop to explore new skills and competences for eco-creative leaders Coach: Koos Vos Dancer: Helena Lizari

#4 BUSINESS & COP21: Powered by: Lavola What are the expectations and opportunities to be taken to and from Paris summit by economic and industrial actors? > > > >

Angel Pes, CaixaBank & Global Compact Marta Anglada, Ferrer Laboratories Encarna Baras, ICL Iberia Office for Climate Change Moderator: Pere Pous, Lavola

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15:30-16:00

Coffee break 16:00-17:30

THE CLIMATE, ENERGY AND SDGS DIALOGUE What are the synergies, challenges and opportunities between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris Climate summit expectations and global Energy transition? Moderator: Cristina Manzano, journalist, esglobal

>P edro Ballesteros, DG Energy & Climate, European Commission > Nicolas Debaisieux, climate change advisor, Union for the Mediterranean & French Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy > Ferran Rodes, President, Advisory Council for Sustainable Development of Catalonia > Farooq Ullah, director, Stakeholders Forum > Victor Vi単uales, director, ecodes

17:30-18:00

Closing

23/10 PROGRAM

Co-Creating Europe’s National Renovation Strategies

What is BUILD UPON? BUILD UPON is an innovative two year Horizon 2020 project, financed by the European Union. It aims to help European countries design and implement strong, long-term national strategies for the renovation of their existing buildings. The project counts on the participation of 13 European countries, through their GBCs.

BUILD UPON will guide a critical mass of key stakeholders across all the participating countries through a structured process, working as a powerful collaborative community to design and implement the v2.0 national renovation strategies due to be in place by April 2017.

Get involved! If you’re a buildings expert, industry leader, public authority, NGO, housing association, financer, researcher or one of many other professionals involved in energy efficient building renovation, BUILD UPON wants you! Get in touch with your local GBC in any of the project countries below to find out more and get involved.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 649727, and is coordinated by GBC España

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CRISTINA MAS

RIDHA ABBASSI

Vice Mayor of Kasserine, Tunisia, since 2011 before becoming Mayor in 2014. He has extensive experience in coordinating and managing all international liaison and development projects done in partnership with the municipality of Kasserine, including city’s twinning projects and peer-to-peer technical exchanges, good governance practices and civil society participatory projects.

JAVIER ALBARRACÍN Former Head of the Mediterranean and Middle East Department at the Consortium for the Commercial Promotion of Catalonia of the Government of Catalonia (2001-2008) and part of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of Spain in Istanbul (1998-99), Javier has participated in various Euro-Mediterranean projects of the European Commission (MEDPRO 2030, SEARCH Project, JISER-MED).

TAHA AMIAR

Co-founder of Massolia (Arabic for “responsibility”) the first online platform in North Africa fostering clean technologies and green growth. He graduated from the Toulouse Business School in 2004 and has participated in conferences in Germany, South Korea, Belgium, France and the USA. He is a Professional Fellow of the Moroccan Department of State since 2014.

GREG ARCHER Transport & Environment (T&E) clean vehicles team leader since 2012 at working on vehicle regulation and testing issues. Previously, director of Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership – a UK public-private partnership promoting the shift to clean vehicles and fuels – he also worked as a non-executive director for the UK Government’s Renewable Fuels Agency and Cenex. A chemist by training, Greg describes himself as a “pragmatic environmentalist.”

PEDRO BALLESTEROS TORRES Principal administrator at the Directorate General for Energy of the European Commission (working at the EC since 1995), he is in charge of the energy relations between the EU and India and Latin America, and worked extensively on relations with China. He was also in charge of the launch and overall management of the Global Covenant of Mayors.

EVA BUFI

Executive Director of the Specialist Centre on PPPs in Smart and Sustainable Cities (PPP for Cities). She has taken the lead with the IESE Business School in hosting the Specialist Centre on PPPs of the United Nations in Spain. 20 years experience working on public-private partnerships, project finance, procurement and infrastructure management.

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NICOLAS DEBAISIEUX French civil servant currently seconded as climate change advisor at the Secretariat General of the Union for the Mediterranean. He was previously advisor to the government of Serbia for the implementation of climate policies in the framework of the EU accession process. He worked for the European Commission, developing climate policy in the maritime sector.

JOSE ETCHEVERRY Founding member of the International Renewable Energy Agency’s Learning Partnership and the RETScreen International Training Institute, Dr. Etcheverry is a member of the World Council for Renewable Energy and others renewable energy networks. He is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the SEI in the Faculty of Environmental Studies of York University.

JÉRÉMIE FOSSE

Founder and director of the Global Eco Forum, co-founder and president of eco-union – an international environmental non-profit association. Mr. Fosse advises public and private institutions around corporate responsibility and the green economy. He holds an Msc in Industrial Engineering at INSA Lyon and an Executive MBA at Esade Business School.

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ALESSANDRO GALLI Senior Scientist and the Mediterranean-MENA Program Director at Global Footprint Network. Previously, he has been working as technical advisor with the Emirates Wildlife Society (EWS-WWF) and the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) on the Al Basama Al Beeiya (Ecological Footprint) Initiative in the United Arab Emirates.

MANEL GIRALDO VERA Director of Sustainable Development, Aguas de Barcelona (AGBAR). Board member of the association Responcat for the development of Corporate Social Responsability in Catalonia and boardmember of the innovation agency of Baix Llobregat Innobaix. Mr Giraldo holds a Master in Water Management (UPC).

GLORIA GOMEZ MUÑOZ Founding partner of cc60, Gloria holds a PhD. in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). She advances environmentally-integrated architecture and sustainable refurbishment projects with bioclimatic criteria. Gloria lectures about these issues with Margarita de Luxán and others in Spanish architect associations and universities.

ANGEL GONZALO MARTIN Chemical engineer working in energy since 1985, starting with gas regulations for Catalana de Gas y Electricidad. After being Chief Coordinator on the Emergency Center, he moved to Mexico, developing international projects. Since 2001, he is main responsible for Exploitation Management of Energy Efficiency projects of the Gas Natural Fenosa Group in Spain.

EVA HERRERO ALONSO Graduated in Labor Sciences by the Open University of Catalonia and by the University of Barcelona. She is a public servant for local administration since 1999. From 2011 to 2015, she has been vice-mayor for ICV-EUiA at Terrassa city hall on environmental affairs. She is currently commissioner for ecology, urbanism and mobility at Barcelona City Hall.

JESÚS CALDERER Jesús Calderer Palau is vice-deputy for Natural Areas of the Barcelona Provincial Council. He is mayor of Cercs, a town of 1,246 inhabitants of the Berguedà county. It is also Vice President of the county Development Agency and President of the Association of Municipalities for biomass . He has also developed an important activity as an entrepreneur in the private sector .

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SANDER LAUDY Sander Laudy is architect / director of B01 arquitectes in Barcelona and member of the directive board of Green Building Council España. He works on the sustainability of the built environment through architecture projects, industrial R&D and academic investigation, He is a visiting scientist on Intergal Sustainable Architecture at the University of Sassari in Italy.

HERVÉ LÉVITE Water and environment engineer (AgroParistech, France), he brought support to French rural municipalities and spent fifteen years in Africa as policy advisor on natural resources. With FAO he promoted the diffusion of innovations. He is now leading the green growth program at CMI/World bank in Marseille, France.

DAN LEWIS Dan Lewis is the Chief of the Urban Risk Reduction Unit, UN-Habitat, Kenya, currently leading the new UN-Habitat global programme designing new standards for measuring and monitoring urban resilience. The City Resilience Profiling Programme, and its associated projects and team, are based in the Risk Reduction Unit’s programme office in Barcelona, Spain.

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CRISTINA MANZANO Director of esglobal – a leading global affairs online platform. She blogs on the Spanish edition of Huffington Post and contributes to multiple news outlets. She is former deputy Director General of the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) – an independent think tank based in Madrid.

CRISTINA MAS Senior reporter for Ara daily newspaper, based in Barcelona. She focuses on social, political and economic challenges in the Mediterranean area. She started her career covering the Balkan wars, and has reported from Turkey, Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco, Melilla, Libya and Greece.

STUART REIGELUTH Founder of Revolve Media and Vice-President of Revolve Water. Stuart has worked for over 10 years in Euro-Mediterranean issues related to security and development as well as water and energy. He holds a MBA from Solvay-Ponts Business School and a MA in Middle East Studies from the American University of Beirut.

FERRAN RODÉS I VILÀ President of the Advisory Council for Sustainable Development within the President’s Office of the Government of Catalonia. Graduated in economic sciences by the University of Barcelona with specialization from IESE and Stanford Business schools. Mr Rodés is vice-president from Havas Group, advisor at Acciona and founder of ARA newspaper.

ANDREAS RØHL Andreas has worked at national and city levels and has acted as transport consultant for cities such as Vancouver, Berlin and Vienna. His 7 year position as director of the Bicycle Program at the City of Copenhagen, has provided Andreas with unique insights into delivering on high profile political agendas, as well as promoting cycling.

VINCENT ROSSO With over 15 years of experience in IT, Vincent launched his first startup in 2006 after being selected by the NETI Program of the IE Business School. He launched BlaBlaCar in Spain in 2009. He is a business angel and advisor of multiples startups of the sharing economy since 2015.

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RICHARD BELLINGHAM Richard is Director for the Institute for Future Cities at University of Strathclyde, Deputy Director of the Fraser of Allander Economic Research Institute, and a Senior Research Fellow specialising in energy policy and smart sustainable cities. He was previously Head of Energy Policy for the Scottish Government.

MERCĂ&#x2C6; RIUS PhD in Biology from the University of Barcelona. Deputy Mayor for Environment and Mobility at Badalona City Council (2007-2011). Previous deputy for environment at Barcelona Provincial Council and now director of the Catalan Energy Institute (ICAEN) of the Government of Catalonia.

JANET SANZ Deputy Mayor for Ecology, Urban Planning and Mobility and Nou Barris District Councillor. She has been a Barcelona City Councillor and a member for the Barcelona Metropolitan Area since 2011, specializing in drafting and implementing urban and environmental policies. Councillor for ICV (2011-2015) and current Deputy Mayor for Barcelona en ComĂş (2015).

MICHAEL SCOULLOS UNESCO Chair on Management and Education for Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean. He represents the European Parliament in the Management Board of the EEA. Chairman, MIO-ECSDE & GWP-Med. Chairman, Greek National Commission of MAB/ UNESCO. Awarded the Medals of the City of Paris and Simon Bolivar of UNESCO.

STEFAN SCHURIG Founder of the Future of Cities Forum and Director of Climate Energy at the World Future Council on climate change, renewable energy and sustainable city development. Member of the energy advisory board of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) in Hamburg and of the steering committee of its World Urban Campaign.

SAMANTHA SMITH Leader of WWFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Global Climate and Energy Initiative, serving on various task forces on climate change, Samantha has been involved in climate issues for two decades working as Director of WWFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Global Arctic Programme and in senior roles within the New Energy division of Statoil in Norway before returning to WWF.

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MOHAMED SEFIANI Mayor of Chefchaouen since 2009. Chair of UCLG Working Group on Intermediary Cities. President of the Mediterranean Network of Medina and vice-president of MediverCities, the Mediterranean network for Biodiversity. General secretary of the Moroccan eco-cities network (AMEV).

MARTA SUBIRÁ Postgraduate in Corporate and Institutional Communication at UPF, Public Management at ESADE and leadership in public administration at IESE, she was Councillor and Deputy Mayor of Environment and Mobility in the City of Sant Cugat del Vallès. Marta is Managing Director of Environmental Policy Department of Territory and Sustainability at Generalitat de Catalunya.

FAROOQ ULLAH Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum – an international NGO advancing sustainable development through good governance at all levels. He is also a Specialist Advisor to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee and a member of Future Earth’s Engagement Committee. Farooq holds an MSc in Public Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE).

MANUEL VALDÉS Director of Mobility, Infrastructure and Urban Coordination and responsible for Barcelona’s Electric Mobility Strategies, Manuel Valdés (La Habana, 1966) is a civil engineer and since 2006 has been working at the municipal infrastructure department of the Barcelona Urban Habitat Directorate.

VICTOR VINUALES EDO Sociologist. Executive Director of Fundación Ecología y Desarrollo since 1995. Member of the Advisory Board of the Biodiversity Foundation, member of the Advisory Boards of Inditex and Triodos Bank. Member of the Board of Directors of CREAS, member of the Spanish Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation, and of Greenpeace Spain Governing Council.

KRISTIAN PETRICK (Industrial Engineer, Technical University Berlin) is freelance consultant in the field of renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability. Since 2008 he has been acting for the Operating Agent of the International Energy Agency’s Implementing Agreement on Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD).

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