European Economic
and Social Committee
Programme
Moderator: Sarah Schönfeld, International Program Manager, Comité 21
9:30 | Introduction - Presentation of the coalition
- Brenda King, European Economic and Social Committee
- Marco Dus, European Committee of the Regions – Explaining the work done so far: Mapping climate governance case studies – barriers and opportunities
1st Panel Debate: Multi-stakeholders cooperation: Alleviating the barriers to make all types of actors work together to implement Paris Agreement
- Jean-Charles Lardic, Sustainable Development Director and Prospective Director of the City of Marseille
- Martin Frick, UNFCCC Secretariat
- Malte Zieher, Member of the board Bündnis Bürgerenergie (German Citizen Energy Association)
- Business perspective: (tbc)
2nd Panel Debate: Multi-level cooperation: Need for enabling framework for bottom up actions
- Elina Bardram, DG CLIMA, European Commission
- Tadashi Matsumoto, OECD
- Eamon O'Hara, Executive Director, ECOLISE
- Yunus Arikan, Head of Global Policy and Advocacy at ICLEI World Secretariat
11:00 | Conclusion
- Mart Laanemäe, Estonian Ambassador in Germany, representative of the Estonian Presidency of the EU
- Bettina Laville, Comité 21’s Chairwoman