PROGRAMME
Moderation: Mariam Zaidi
14.30 – 15.00 Opening
- Christa Schweng, President of the EESC
- Pernille Weiss, MEP, Chair of the MEP Water Group (intervening remotely)
- Pietro Francesco De Lotto, President of Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI)
15.00 – 16.10 Panel 1: Global challenges at stake
This panel will look into key challenges and existing policies concerning:
- the preservation of freshwater resources and clean water
- access to water, economics of water and water poverty
- geopolitics of water and blue diplomacy
Speakers:
- Sergiy Moroz, Policy Manager for Water and Biodiversity, European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
- Mirjam Wolfrum, CDP
- Milo Fiasconaro, Executive Director, Aqua Publica Europea
- Marc Zeitoun, Director General, Geneva Water Hub
16.10 – 16.20 Break
16.20 – 17.30 Panel 2: Sustainable water management
This panel will look into key challenges and existing policies concerning:
- water consumption and wastewater produced by households, public administration, agriculture and industries, notably water-intensive ones;
- water efficient technology sector;
- distribution networks and water infrastructures from the triple perspective of efficiency, sustainability and resilience.
Speakers:
- Will Sarni, founder and CEO, Water Foundry (intervening remotely)
- Li Lifeng, Director of Division for Land and Water, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
- Johannes Lohaus, Secretary General, European Water Association
- Oliver Loebel, Secretary General, EurEau
17.30 – 18.00 Closing
- Oliver Röpke, President of the Workers' Group, EESC
- Salla Saastamoinen, Deputy Director-General, Joint Research Centre (JRC)