Los organizadores de la 9ª Conferencia Internacional de ASPO[*1] 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