Programme
Integrating Environment, Development, and
Conflict Prevention – European and National Approaches and Challenges
European Conference
hosted by the German EU Council Presidency 2007
Berlin, March 29 and 30, 2007
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Day 1, 29 March 2007
| 09.00 – 09.30 |
Registration
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| 09.30 – 10.30 |
Session I: Global Trends and
European Challenges
Chair: Hermann Sausen
Ambassador for Environmental and
Biopolitical Issues
German Federal Foreign Office
Karin Kortmann
Parliamentary State
Secretary
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Conflict prevention and peacebuilding – broadening
the perspectives*
Georg Boomgaarden
State
Secretary
German Federal Foreign Office
Environment and Security – More Than an Abstract Threat
to the Security Structure
John Ashton
Special Representative on Climate Change, UK Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
Climate Security and the Diplomacy of Interdependence
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| 10.30-10.45 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10.45– 12.30 |
Session II: European
Commission and Member States’ Priorities
Chair: Ingrid Hoven
Director General, German Federal Ministry
for Economic Cooperation and Development
Michael Müller
Parliamentary State Secretary
German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety
Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment – Challenges
for Broadening the European Security Debate
Christian Berger
DG External Relations, European Commission
The
EU Commission and Environmental Security – An Overview*
Ronald A. Kingham
Programme Director, Institute
for Environmental Security
An Inventory of European Approaches to Environmental Security
Alexander Carius
Managing Director, Adelphi Research/Adelphi
Consult
An Inventory of Environmental Security by Member States
Introduction to Working Groups
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| 12.30 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
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| 14.00 - 15.30 |
Session III: Parallel Thematic Working Groups |
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WG A I: Conflict Resources
and Extractive Industries
Chair: Prof. Dr. Tobias Debiel, Director,
INEF
Input I: Patrick Alley, Director, Global Witness
Input II: Leo Atakpu, Deputy Director, African
Network for Environment and Economic Justice
Input III: Anthonius W. de Vries,
DG External Relations, European
Commission |
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WG A II: Climate Change, Energy and Security
Chair: Dr. Tapani Vaahtoranta, Director, Finnish Institute
for International Affairs
Input I: Anne Marie Sloth Carlsen, Deputy Head of Department,
Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Input II: Shane
Tomlinson,
E3G
Input III: Dr. Elina Bardram,
DG External Relations, European Commission |
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WG A III: “Environmental Peacemaking” (Transboundary
Environmental Cooperation)
Chair: Dr. Bernard Snoy, Co-ordinator
of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
Input I: Dr. Christoph Kessler, Head of Agriculture
and Natural Resources Division Sub-Saharan Africa, KfW-Development
Bank
Input II: Gidon Bromberg, Director,
Friends of the Earth Middle East
Input III: Dr. Anders Jägerskog, Project Director,
Stockholm International Water Institute
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| 15.30 – 16.00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16.00 – 18.00 |
Session IV:
Parallel Thematic Working Group continued |
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| 20.00 |
Dinner Reception at
restaurant “Zollpackhof”
Hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
and Development.
Dinner speech by Karin Kortmann, Parliamentary State Secretary,
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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| Day 2, 30 March 2007 |
| 09.00 – 10.00 |
Session V: Presentation
and Discussion of Thematic Working Groups’ Results
Heidi Feldt, Global Policy Forum Europe |
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| 10.00 – 10.30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10.30 – 12.30 |
Session VI:
Parallel Policy Working Group |
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WG B I: Regional Cooperation
(emphasis on ENP)
Chair: Ortwin Hennig, Director, East-West Institute,
Brussels
Input I: Frits Schlingeman, UNEP Regional Office
for Europe
Input II: Mary-Teresa Moran, DG External Relations,
European Commission
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WG B II: Mainstreaming
Conflict Prevention and Natural Resources in the EU’s
External Relations (Relex, Trade, Development)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Tobias Debiel,
Director, INEF
Input I: Anja Köhne, Project
Manager, WWF European Policy Office
Input II: Alessandro Villa, DG External Relations,
European Commission
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| 12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch Buffet |
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| 13.30 – 15.30 |
Session VII: Chairperson’s
Conclusion, Panel Discussion and Q&A |
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Chair: Dr. Karsten Sach
Deputy
Director General, German Federal Ministry for Environment,
Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety
Ingrid Hoven
Director General, German Federal Ministry
for Economic Cooperation and Development
Friedrich
Däuble
Ambassador, Commissioner
for Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and
Post-Conflict Peace-Building,
German Federal Foreign Office
Prof. Dr. Peter Eigen
Director, Transparency
International and Chairperson of EITI Board
Dr. Karel Kovanda
Deputy Director-General, DG External Relations,
European Commission
Alexander Carius
Managing Director, Adelphi Research/Adelphi Consult
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