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Launch
Shell Energy Scenarios to 2050
Monday, April 07, 2008 - Bibliothèque Solvay

17.00 Welcome drink
17.30 Presentation by Jeremy Bentham, Vice President Global Business Environment, Royal Dutch Shell plc, and Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell plc
18.00 Debate
 

Panellists include:

  • Javier Solana, Secretary General and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Council of the EU;
  • Claude Turmes MEP, Member of the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Temporary Committee on Climate Change;
  • Fatih Birol, Chief Economist & Principal Author of the World Energy Outlook, International Energy Agency (IEA);
  • Vitor Gaspar, Director General of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA), European Commission.
 
  Moderated by Giles Merritt, Secretary General of Friends of Europe 
19.15 Cocktail

Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels
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