Program

The preliminiary program is as follows

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Time October 12th – Workshops
09:00 – 16:00 Project Green Light – Communicating Green Growth. Read more…
09:00 – 16:00 Smart Grid, Smart Growth. Read more…
09:00 – 16:00 Welfare and Green Growth
09:00 – 16:00 Bio Business is Big Business. Read more…
09:00 – 16:00 Sustainable Living in Buildings. Read more…
09:00 – 16:00 The Power of Wind. Read more…
09:00 – 16:00 Solutions for Sustainable Cities – Copenhagen. Read more…
09:00 – 16:00 Green Growth Indicators – OECD
Time October 13th – Conference Copenhagen City Hall
09:00 – 12:00 Site Visits to Green Solutions in Copenhagen for Workshop Participants
09:00 – 12:30 Closed High Level Roundtables
12:30 – 12:45 Take Lead Conference opening
Frank Jensen, Lord Mayor, City of Copenhagen
Erik Rasmussen, CEO, Monday Morning
12:45 – 13:15 When Business Take Lead
Simon Willis, Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco
13:15 – 13:30 The Evidence of Green GrowthThe launch of a comprehensive study by The Pathways Project at UC Berkeley – the first to investigate the evidence behind of green growth and displays how seven different countries have pursued green growth.
John Zysman, Professor, UC Berkeley
13:30 – 14:00 When a Billion Chinese Jump
Jonathan Watts, Asia Correspondent, The Guardian and award-winning author
14:00 – 14:45 Green Growth LeadersThe Green Growth Leaders is a global alliance that documents, demonstrates and communicates the benefits of green growth. This session offers perspectives on how businesses, cities and civil society organizations can help build prosperous, green economies and communities.
Q&A with Frank Jensen, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen; Flemming Borreskov, CEO, Realdania; Michael K. Rasmussen, CMO, VELUX Group; Morten Albæk, Senior Vice President, Group Marketing and Customer Insight, Vestas Wind Systems and Anders Eldrup, CEO, DONG Energy
14:45 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 15:45 The good lifeTo make the transition to a green economy, we need examples of how sustainable thinking, sustainable design and sustainable living can actually increase the quality of life so that sustainable life becomes more fun than normal life.
Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG and awarded one of the most creative people in 2010
15:45 – 16:30 Re-taking the leadUntil 2009, conventional wisdom was that governments and intergovernmental institutions were the political powers responsible for tackling global climate change. Since then, however, the wheel of history has turned, and it seems that cities and businesses are now the ones looking after our planet. How can governments re-take lead in advancing green growth?Connie Hedegaard, EU Commissioner for Climate ActionYvo de Boer, Special Global Advisor, KPMG and Fmr. Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
16:30 – 17:15 The Great Reset
Richard Florida, Thought Leader and author of the global best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class
17:15 – 17:30 The Greatest Story Never Told
The Copenhagen Charter for Sustainable Growth
17:30 – 20:00 Reception in the Ceremonial Hall at Copenhagen City Hall

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