09.00 Welcome and introduction – Adrienne Baker, Green Power Conferences

Opening session: Sustainable policy, production, and consumption – the big ideas

Chair: Willy De Backer, European Director, Global Footprint Network

09.10 Legislation update: An outline and potential impact of the Action Plans for Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy
Alberto Parenti, Director for Sustainable Development and Integration, European Commission

09.30 How SCP/IP-developments can change your business
Barend van Bergen, Director, KPMG Sustainability

09.50 SCP/IP discussion
Chair: Willy De Backer, European Director, Global Footprint Network
Alberto Parenti,
Director for Sustainable Development and Integration, European Commission
Sigrid Linher, Environment Manager, Orgalime
Klaus Hieronymi, Chairman of the Environmental Board, EMEA, Hewlett Packard
Almut Reichel, Project Manager, Sustainable Production & Consumption and Waste,
European Environment Agency
Korrina Hegarty, Government Affairs Manager - Environment, CECED

10.40 Networking Coffee Break

Session: Winning and innovative strategies for sustainable manufacturing

11.10 Case study: Cradle to grave CO2 balancing
Peter Saling, Head of Eco-efficiency Analysis Group, BASF

11.20 1billion € turnover, 72 locations and 8 weeks to measure the company footprint
– a case study from Carbon-View
Peter Klein, Vice-President, Carbon-View

11.50 Case study: Towards zero emissions manufacturing
Steve Hope, General Manager, Plant Engineering Division, Toyota Motor Europe

12.10 Case study: Environmental strategy with EMAS
Alain Denielle, Corporate EHS group director, STMicroelectronics

13.00 Networking Lunch

Session: Efficient and sustainable energy strategies

Chair: Luc Bas, Director, The Climate Group

14.00 Case study "The technology is there. It's a question of daring."
CO2 free manufacturing with the innovative use of renewable energy.
Koen Knippenberg, Manager Quality and Infrastructure, Volvo Trucks

14.20 Energy efficiency through cooperation – the Modell Hohenlohe case study
Dr. Stefan Müssig, Chairman of the Board, Förderkreis Umweltschutz in Unterfranken

14.40 Case Study: Energy efficiency as a corporate strategy
Nayeem Sheikh, Global Energy Manager, Cisco Systems

15.05 Q&A and renewable energy discussion
Andrea Jelitte, Lawyer, European Renewable Energies Federation
Koen Knippenberg, Manager, Quality and Infrastructure, Volvo Trucks
Dr. Stefan Müssig, Chairman of the Board, Förderkreis Umweltschutz in Unterfranken
Nayeem Sheikh, Global Energy Manager, Cisco Systems

15.30 Networking Coffee Break

16.00 What is offsetting and how to do it sustainably?
Stefano Merlin, The Social Carbon Company

Session: Water Footprinting

Chair: Derk Kuiper, Executive Director, Waterfootprint.org

16.20 Case Study: Measuring and reducing your water footprint
Chris Dutilh, Environment Manager, Unilever

16.40 Discussion with expert panel
Chair: Derk Kuiper, Executive Director, Waterfootprint.org
Friedrich Barth, Vice-Chairman, European Water Partners
Chris Dutilh, Environment Manager, Unilever
Marco Mensink, Energy & Environment Director, CEPI
Dominique Gatel, Chairman of Commission on Drinking Water, EUREAU

17.20 – 18.00 Networking drinks reception sponsored by Carbon-View

Day 2 - Thursday, 20 November 2008

 08.30 Coffee and registration
Session: Life cycle analysis

09.00 Life cycle analysis at UK brewer Adnams Plc
Dr Simon Gerrard, CRed Project Manager, Low Carbon Innovation Centre, University of East Anglia

09.20 Case study: Life cycle thinking at Nokia – connecting people and the environment
Kaisa-Reeta Koskinen, Environmental Team, Nokia

09.40 Case study: Life Cycle Approach in Business Development
Johanna M. Öster, Sustainability Manager, Hydro Aluminium

10.00 Life cycle analysis Q&A
Chair: Dr Simon Gerrard, CRed Project Manager, Low Carbon Innovation Centre,
University of East Anglia

10.10 Networking Break

Session: Carbon and Eco-labelling

11.00 An expanded Eco-labelling scheme – what this might mean for manufacturers, retailers, consumers and other scheme providers
Pavel Misiga, Head of Unit, Environment and Industry, European Commission

11.20 Panel: From life cycle to label
Rasmus Priess, Director, Thema1
Philippe Diercxsens, Environment Manager, Danone Beverages Division,
Chairman SCP Working Group BusinessEurope
Sonny Masero, Managing Director (UK), Camco
Doreen Fedrigo, EU Policy Unit Coordinator, European Environmental Bureau
Dr. Wendy Williams, Regional Manager and Strategic Advisor, TCO Development

12.10 – 13.00 Lunch

Session: Strategies for reduce, reuse, recycle

13.00 Case study: Cradle to cradle production
Henk Van Houtum, Managing Director, Van Houtum Papier

13.20 The possibilities and practicalities of industrial symbiosis
Peter Laybourn, Programme Director, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme

13.40 Case study; Designing for the 3Rs
Kentaro Niwano, Senior Environment Officer, Canon Europe

14.00 The possibilities for reengineering, reusing  and recycling consumer products – what manufacturers need to know
Sepp Eisenriegler, Managing Director, R.U.S.Z GmbH

14.20 Networking Break

14.50 Sustainable Public procurement boosts innovations – how manufacturers can get involved
Philipp Tepper, Project Officer, Sustainable Procurement Team,
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Session: EMAS - Turning eco-management in to corporate strategy

15.10 EMAS easy - a cost effective tool for supply chain management
Heinz Werner Engel, Executive Director, Eco-Conseil Entreprise

15.30 EMAS III – EMAS after the SCP/IP Action Plans
Gilles Vincent, Directorate G -Sustainable Development and Integration, European Commission

15.50 EMAS discussion
What is the response of EMAS members to the proposed revision of the scheme? Where should the scheme be revised – what currently works well and what does not?
How should the EMAS scheme be simplified?
Does the EMAS scheme deliver enough in terms of the reduction of environmental impact – how can it do more?
Which companies have been nominated for a 2008 EMAS Award and why?
How easily is EMAS adopted by these organisations?

16.45 Close of conference

18.30 Drinks reception and 2008 EMAS Awards
Hotel Plaza, Bd Adolphe Maxlaan, 118-126 (place Rogier)