ERF 2020 online: The 5th European Resources Forum took place on November 03, 2020, as a virtual conference.
November 03, 2020, Tuesday
09.30 | Opening session (room: Auditorium)
- Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner President, German Environment Agency
- Virginijus Sinkevicius European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
- Stientje van Veldhoven Minister for the Environment, The Netherlands
- Svenja Schulze Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany (video message)
- Prof. Hans Bruyninckx Executive Director, European Environment Agency
10.30 | Plenary session I: The nexus between resource use and climate change - Making Europe more resource efficient and climate friendly (room: Auditorium)
- Prof. Dr. Raimund Bleischwitz Chair in Sustainable Global Resources, University College London, Director of The Bartlett School of Environment Energy & Resources, United Kingdom
- Prof. Dr. Harald U. Sverdrup Professor of System Dynamics, University of Applied Science, Hamar, Norway
- Francesco La Camera Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency, Italy
- Chair: Dr. Harry Lehmann General Director, Division for Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, German Environment Agency
11.30-11.45 | BREAK
11.45-12.45 | Parallel sessions (block I):
Parallel sessions 1: Resource efficient and circular design - from niche to mainstream (room: Charlottenburg)
- Harri Moora, PhD Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn, Estonia
- Aino Vepsälainen Design Forum Finland
- Ronja Scholz Technical University Berlin, Fraunhofer Institue for Reliability and Microintegration, Berlin, Germany
- Joan Prummel Rijkswaterstaat Environment, The Netherlands
- Chair: Carsten Beyer Managing director, sustainable projects, Germany
Parallel session 2: Modelling the nexus between resource use and climate change (room: Kreuzberg)
- Kai Neumann Considio GmbH, Germany
- Dr. Stephan Lutter Research group Global Resource Use, Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- Elena Rovenskaya Program Director, Advanced Systems Analysis, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- Chair: Ullrich Lorenz Section Fundamental Aspects, Sustainability Strategies and Scenarios, Sustainable Resource Use, German Environment Agency
Parallel sessions 3: Towards resource efficient and sustainable chemistry (room: Köpenick)
- Dr. Thomas Jakl Deputy General Director, Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, Austria
- Gabriele Eigenmann Senior Industrial Development Officer, Department of Environment/Industrial Resource Efficiency Division, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- Pascal Chalvon Head of sustainability, Solvay, Belgium (cancel)
- Chair: Dr. Jutta Klasen General Director, Division Chemical Safety, German Environment Agency
Parallel session 4: Renewable energies and end of life - the example of wind turbines (room: Schöneberg)
- Ferdinand Zotz Head of Resource Management and Circular Economy, Rambøll Group, Munich, Germany
- Martin Westbomke Chairman of the Board, RDRWind, Germany
- Jinfeng Zhang National Energy Key Laboratory for Wind and Solar Simulation, Testing and Certification, Blade Certification Division, China
- Marylise Schmid Analyst, Environment & Planing, Wind Europe, Belgium
- Chair: Dr. Ines Oehme Head of Section Product Responsibility, German Environment Agency
12.45 | Plenary session II: The European green deal - New impulses for a resource efficient Europe in a circular economy (room: Auditorium)
- Dr. Janez Potočnik Co-chair of the UNEP International Resource Panel, former European Commissioner for R&D and Environment, Slovenia
- Delara Burkhardt Member of European Parliament, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, Germany
- Sirpa Pietikäinen Member of European Parliament, Group of the European People's Party, Finland
- Michael Bloss Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Germany
- Moderation: Dr. Harry Lehmann General Director, Divison for Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, German Environment Agency
13.45 | BREAK
14.00-15.00 | Parallel sessions (block II):
Parallel session 5: Sustainability, climate protection and resource efficiency in the health system (room: Charlottenburg)
- Dr. Tanja Bratan Coordinator of Business Unit Innovations in the Health System, Fraunhofer Institute for System and Innovation Research, Germany
- Dr. Ulli Weisz Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna, Austria
- Dr. Nicole de Paula Founder, Woman Leaders for Planetary Heath, and Inaugural Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow at the International Institute for Sustainable Development Potsdam, Brazil
- Chair: Christopher Manstein Section Fundamental Aspects, Sustainability Strategies and Scenarios, Sustainable Resource Use, German Environment Agency
Parallel session 6: Fostering the resource efficient and circular economy - How to manage the interface between chemical, product and waste legislation? (room: Kreuzberg)
- Enrique Garcia John Policy Officer, Waste Management & Secondary Materials, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission
- Bo Balduyck European Chemicals Agency
- Maria Thestrup Jensen Ministry of Environment and Food, Environmental Protection Agency, Denmark
- Chair: Dr. Bettina Rechenberg General Director, Division Sustainable Production and Products, Waste Management, German Environment Agency
Parallel session 7: Resource efficiency and circular economy indicators and targets (room: Köpenick)
- Barbara Bacigalupi Policy Officer, Directorate General for Environment, European Commission
- Prof. Dr. Hans Mommaas Director, Netherlands Enviromental Assessment Agency
- Dr. Melanie Haupt Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Bringezu Director, Center for Environmental Systems Research, University Kassel, Germany
- Chair: Dr. Philip Nuss Section Fundamental Aspects, Sustainability Strategies and Scenarios, Sustainable Resource Use, German Environment Agency
Parallel session 8: Global implications of a country’s water footprint - the case of industrialised countries (room: Schöneberg)
- Dr. Markus Berger Chair of Sustainable Engineering, Technical University Berlin, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Boulay International Reference Centre for Life Cycle of Products, Services and Systems, Canada
- Jonas Bunsen Chair of Sustainable Engineering, Technical University Berlin, Germany
- Dr. Masaharu Motoshita National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
- Chair: Manuela Helmecke Section General Aspects of Water and Soil, German Environment Agency
15.00 | BREAK
15.15-16.15 | Parallel sessions (block III):
Parallel session 9: Sustainable lifestyles for the resource efficient and circular economy (room: Charlottenburg)
- Prof. Detlef van Vuuren Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Professor in Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change, Utrecht University
- Malin Pettersson-Beckeman Head of Sustainability Communications & Engagement, Inter IKEA Group, Sweden
- Dr. Lewis Akenji Executive Director, Promoting Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development
- Chair: Dr. Michael Lettenmeier, D-mat, Finland
Parallel session 10: Resource efficient buildings, infrastructures and building solutions (room: Kreuzberg)
- Hubert Rhomberg Managing Director, Rhomberg Holding, Cree GmbH, Austria
- Cédric de Meeûs Vice-President, Group Public Affairs & Government Relations, LafargeHolcim, Switzerland
- Klaus Dosch Director, Factor X Agency, Entwicklungsgesellschaft indeland GmbH, Germany
- Chair: Alexa Lutzenberger Alrene Consulting, ResScore GmbH
Parallel session 11: The international dimension of resource efficiency - Policies and best practise examples from all over the world (room: Köpenick)
- Prof. Dr. Olga Sergienko ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Dr. Ashok Khosla Member of UNEP International Resource Panel, India
- Prof. Dr. Bing Zhu Director and Professor, Institute for Circular Economy, Tsinghua University, Member of UNEP International Resource Panel, China
- Chika Aoki-Suzuki Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
- Chair: Dr. Detlef Schreiber Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ GmbH, Germany
Parallel session 12: Learning about resource efficiency - The role of the higher education system (room: Schöneberg)
- Prof. Holger Rohn Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, University of Applied Sciences, BilRess-Network, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Torsten Masseck Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Sakari Autio LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland
- Chair: Dr. Carolin Baedeker Co-Director, Division Sustainable Production and Consumption, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
Parallel Session 13: Top ten technologies towards a sustainable use of our resources (room: Pankow)
- Hartwig Michels President, Petrochemicals BASF, Germany
- Prof. Stéphane Mangin Université de Lorraine, France
- Cody Finke CEO, Brimstone Energy, USA
- Chair: Prof. Victoire de Margerie Founder & Vice Chairman, World Materials Forum, Academician at the National Academy of Technologies of France
16.15 | Plenary session III: Outlook and next steps (room: Auditorium)
- Dr. Harry Lehmann General Director, Division for Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, German Environment Agency
- Jagoda Munic Director, Friends of the Earth Europe
- Esha Nitin Patil ERF Student Reporter, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Dehli, India
- Julian Alexander Becker ERF Student Reporter, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
- Dr. Ashok Khosla Member of UNEP International Resource Panel, India
16.45 | End of the conference