The Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) is pleased to announce the inaugural CN Net Virtual Conference organized by the United Nations Environment Programme in collaboration with the City of Arendal.
 
Held in conjunction with the Global Climate Week (21-25 September), the conference will present the first online knowledge-sharing opportunity for 160-plus CN Net participants around the world, including countries, regions, cities, major companies, leading NGOs, universities and UN agencies.
 
The conference will provide an update on the state of play in the climate negotiations less than 80 days before the crucial Copenhagen conference where world leaders must Seal the Deal on a comprehensive new agreement that puts the global economy onto a low-carbon path.  

The conference will also present best practices in moving towards climate neutrality in the transport sector and provide a forum to discuss standards and criteria for climate neutrality. 

Click here to listen to the full podcast of the CN Net Virtual Conference (.wmv file)

Agenda

Note – total duration 3h 00 min, all times shown are GMT

[ Back to Top ]

Speakers

Kilaparti Ramakrishna is a Senior Advisor, Environmental Law and Conventions, with the United Nations Environment Programme. Having received his academic training in sciences and law in India, Ramakrishna joined Harvard Law School in Massachusetts. His research interests were largely on how developing countries cope with emerging environmental problems and what role if any that laws, regulations, judiciary and civil society might play in it. Ramakrishna has previously worked as Special Advisor to the United Nations in drafting the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Before joining UNEP, he was Deputy Director of the Woods Hole Research Center, holder of Sarah Shallenberger Brown Chair in Environmental Law and Policy and Visiting Professor of International Law at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and World Academy of Arts and Sciences, is on the boards of trustees of Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, and the New England Forestry Foundation. Ramakrishna holds Bachelors Degrees in Law and Sciences and Masters and Doctorate Degrees in International Environmental Law.

Click here to listen to Kilaparti Ramakrishna's presentation

Chris Coulter is Vice President, Global Insights & Strategy, GlobeScan Incorporated. Chris works with public affairs and communications professionals in international companies, multilaterals and NGOs to help them manage their reputations, identify emerging issues, plan strategically and develop successful initiatives and communications. He has a decade of experience in providing research-based strategic counsel to companies in the area of corporate reputation and sustainability. Chris gets particularly excited when working with clients that have aspirations to be leaders in the transition to sustainable development. He regularly briefs senior decision makers across all sectors in the area of society and business. He is a specialist in international relations, holding a MA in International Affairs from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa, Canada. He has substantive international experience, having worked in both the Ukraine and Korea, and for the Canadian International Development Agency. Chris is responsible for strategy and collaboration at GlobeScan and is a member of the firm’s Management Team.

Click here to access the CN NET Webinar for GlobeScan

Steffen Frankenberg has been Vice President since April 2008, leading Deutsche Post DHL climate protection program, GoGreen. In his previous role at the Group, Steffen Frankenberg was the project manager in charge of DHL Packstation/Paketbox, overseeing the implementation of DHL’s network of automatic parcel machines that enable customers to retrieve and send parcels around the clock. At the same time, the business studies graduate completed his MBA in supply chain management. His earlier career history includes positions at AeroLogic GmbH, a joint venture air cargo company owned by DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, and MICO Ltd., an Indian subsidiary of Bosch.

Click here to access the CN NET Webinar for Deutsche Post DHL

Alaa Salama is Senior Environmental Engineer, Toyota Motors Europe. He is responsible for the company’s CO2 footprint management, including determining GHG sources, production, sites, logistics and business travel, setting company guidelines for GHG management, reduction targets and offsetting some of company’s emissions. He is also working on the company’s new unified environmental policy and sustainable plant concept (Eco-factory), and coordinates communications projects such as Green Month Campaign. He holds a Master's Degree in Environmental Science & Management from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and a BA in civil engineering from Birzeit University, Palestine.

Click here to access the CN NET Webinar for Toyota Motors Europe

Tim Johnson is the Director of the Aviation Environment Federation. He joined as Planning Officer in 1989 with a degree majoring in transport planning. He became Director in 1997 following the retirement of the AEF’s founder Moyra Logan. Early work focused almost exclusively on aircraft noise and planning law, but undeterred, he stayed to witness the birth of the debate on aviation’s contribution to climate change, an issue that the AEF plays a major role in resolving at a global and national level. Tim provides the AEF’s representation at the International Civil Aviation Organisation as well as on the Department for Transport’s External Advisory Group, and other stakeholder advisory roles associated with NATS, the Sustainable Aviation Initiative, the European Commission, and the academic partnership, OMEGA. He spent a year working for DEFRA on aviation issues, a role that left him with some sympathy for the civil servants we try to influence today! He tries to leave all this at the office at the end of each day to spend time with his young family - two boys aged one and four.

Click here to access the CN NET Webinar for Aviation Environment Federation

Svein Tveitdal is the CEO of Klima 2020 and Climate Ambassador to the City of Arendal. He has previously worked with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as Director of the Division for Policy Implementation and Division for Environmental Conventions, and Polar Advisor to the Executive Director. He also founded UNEP’s collaborating centre in Norway, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, and served as its Managing Director from 1992-2003. Svein has developed a private-public network in southern Norway which focuses on challenges and opportunities of addressing climate change, and co-authored the popular guide to IPCC reports. He also serves on numerous boards, including Norfund, government-owned investment fund for risk capital in developing countries, Agder University and Zero Emission Resource Organization (ZERO).

Margrethe Sagevik is Sustainable Development Senior Adviser, International Union of Railways (UIC). She is Chair of the UIC Sustainable Mobility Expert Network which develops communication tools such as sustainability indicators for the rail sector and web tools to compare the energy performance of different freight and passengers transport modes. She is also responsible for cooperation with the United Nations. Prior to joining UIC, she had worked for DSB where she was responsible for the company’s environmental report, communication and marketing, green purchasing, and finalising DSB's contribution to EU-funded RAVEL-project on environmental indicators for procurement of rolling stock.

Click here to access the CN NET Webinar for UIC

Per Otto Larsen is Head of Carbon Management services at CO2focus and also one of the company’s founders. He holds a MSc in Business Economics and a Master degree in Energy Management from the Norwegian School of Management (BI). He is also a Certified European Financial Analyst from Norges Handelshøyskole in Bergen. Per Otto has experience from the Nordic power exchange Nord Pool, from the business development department and with a special focus on the development of the carbon market since 2003. He has previously experience from the gas department of the oil company Saga Petroleum and the Norwegian Ministry of oil and energy. At CO2focus he will have a special focus on the international carbon trading, CDM projects, emission credits management and product development.

Aniket Ghai, a Kenyan national, studied political science and economics at Oxford and Columbia Universities. He has worked for a range of UN agencies, environmental non-governmental organizations and academic institutions, focussing on environment, climate change, international trade, development and employment issues.  He was part of the secretariat teams that negotiated the Rio Earth Summit’s Agenda 21, as well as the Climate Change Convention and its Kyoto Protocol where he focused on industrialized country commitments on climate change.   He has been working for UNEP for the past ten years, where he set up and ran the Geneva Environment Network.  He led UNEP’s first-ever assessment of the Palestinian environmental situation, and then a programme of environmental capacity building for Palestinians coupled with Israeli-Palestinian environmental cooperation.  He is now coordinating the UN system’s move towards climate neutrality at UNEP’s Environment Management Group secretariat.

Click here to access the CN NET Webinar for Climate Neutral Network

Robert Svendsen is the environmental and civil protection advisor in the municipality of Arendal, Norway, working on implementing the municipality's climate neutral strategy since the city has taken the decision to move towards climate neutrality in February 2008. He holds a degree in biology, ecology and environmental management from the University of Telemark,as well as a degree in GIS (geographic information systems). He is currently working on his Master's degree in sustainable planning.
 

[ Back to Top ]

Moderator

Mark Lynas is a British author, journalist and environmental activist who focuses on climate change. He has worked for nearly a decade as a specialist on climate change, and is author of three books on the subject – High Tide: News from a warming world (2004), Carbon Calculator (2007) and Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet (2007). Six Degrees won the 2008 Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He writes for various newspapers and magazines, recently including the Guardian and the Independent, and is a frequent contributor to the New Statesman. Mark is also a founding partner of Oxford Climate Associates, a consultancy and centre of expertise specialising in both national and international climate policy, which works with the Maldives Government carbon neutral initiative and the Government of India to explore future climate policy directions. He is also a co-writer of The Age of Stupid, a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? Mark holds a degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh and lives in Oxford, England.

How can I participate?

Participation is free of charge to all CN Net members and facilitated through the service   www.GoToWebinar.com

All you need is a computer with a two-way headset and relatively fast and reliable Internet access.

To register online, please click here https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/820997779

After you register, you will get a confirmation email with a link to download the software needed and a link to attend the event. 

A quick guide for presenters:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/default/help/g2w/pdf/GoToWebinar_Panelist_QuickRef_Guide.pdf

A quick guide for attendees:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/default/help/g2w/pdf/GoToWebinar_Attendee_QuickRef_Guide.pdf

If you want to follow the conference on phone you will also get details on how to connect.
For technical support questions, please email cn.net.virtual@gmail.com

[ Back to Top ]