Regístrate en ASPO 9 hasta el 29 de marzo y ahorra

Los organizadores de la 9ª Conferencia Internacional de ASPO han decidido alargar el descuento de inscripción para los más madrugadores hasta el 29 de marzo.

Mientras tanto, se ha confirmado el programa de la sesión pre-conferencia que se celebrará el 26 de abril en el parlamento valón y la que se celebrará el 3 de mayo en el parlamento europeo:

Program for the meeting at the European Parliament (03 May 2011 - 08:30 - 12:30)

Part I: Peak Oil Evidence and Peak Oil Activities in different EU Member States.

• Kjell Aleklett, President of ASPO, Head Global Energy Systems Group Uppsala University.
• UK Industry Task Force on peak Oil and Energy Security (To be Confirmed).
• Lord Ron Oxburgh, House of Lords UK Parliament, former chairman of Shell.
• Michel Lebrun, Vice-President of the Belgian Walloon Parliament

Part II: The EU and Peak Oil - analyses and policy measures.

• Marjeta Jager, Director for General Policy - DG Move.
• EU transport policy and peak oil - Philipp Lowe - Director General DG Energy.
• EU Energy Policy and peak oil (to be confirmed).
• Jose Manuel Silva Rodriguez - Director General DG Agriculture.
• EU agriculture policy and Peak Oil (to be confirmed).

Debate with Members of the EU Parliament.

• Claude Turmes, MEP, Groups of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliamen.
• Udo Bullmann, MEP, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (to be confirmed).
• Joseph Daul, MEP, Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament (to be confirmed).

Meeting at the Walloon Parliament (26 April 2011 - 10:00 - 15:30)

What role for R&D in solving the peak oil issue?

• How to valorise research on the effects of peak oil for urban planning?
• Susan Krumdieck, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
• An analysis of the peak oil effects for the Walloon territory -Thierry Bréchet, UCL, Belgium.
• Debating Scarcity: critical social science meets peak oil - Gavin Bridge, The University of Manchester, UK.

Peakoil and Finance.

• Title to be announced - Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie Chevalier, University of Paris-Dauphine, Director of the Centre de Geopolitique de l'Energie et des Matieres Premieres.
• The effects of triple digit oil prices on the economy - Jeff Rubin, Author, former Chief Economist Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
• Potential Impacts of Peak Oil on Financial Markets - Erik Townsend, former CEO of The Cushing Group, Private investor