Renewables in transport: How to gain market share in a difficult environment?

At a half-day conference, experts from different fields presented their renewable road transport solutions in a market and regulatory context and pointed to tasks ahead in an ensuing panel debate with involvement from the European Commission and the Dutch presidency of the Council of the EU, renewable solutions were discussed in the current political context. A prominent speaker from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offered a global perspective on how carbon taxes could offer solutions for the transport sector.

The event was carried out in cooperation with the Association of German Biofuels Producers (VDB) and the  Association of the Oilseed Crushing and Oil Refining Industry in Germany (OVID)

DATE: 11th May 2016

VENUE: Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU, Brussels

Agenda:

10:30am: Registration

11:00am: Welcome and Introduction

• BARBARA SCHRETTER, Director of the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU
• ROBERT GÖTZ, Head of Unit for Renewable Energy, Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs
• ALEXANDER KNEBEL, Spokesperson, Renewable Energies Agency

11:15 Keynote: Taxes and the Environmental Costs of Transport

• IAN PARRY, Principal Environmental Fiscal Policy Expert, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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11:45 – 12.30: Renewable energy in transport: Solutions for today and tomorrow
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• JÖRG JACOB, CEO, german biofuels gmbh
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• DR DORIS SCHMACK, Managing Director, MicrobEnergy GmbH
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12:30 - 13:30: lunch
13:30 -14:30: Panel debate: How to pave the way for more renewables in transport?

• IAN PARRY, IMF
• BERND KUEPKER, European Commission
  
• NIENKE SMEETS, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment of the Netherlands
• ALAIN BRINON, President, European Biodiesel Board (EBB)

Moderator: SARA STEFANINI, POLITICO

2:30pm: Conclusion