Presentations
1. Session: Welcome, Introduction and Overview:
- a) Welcoming Speech - Mr. Grzegorz Donocik, Chief, Europe and NIS Programme, UNIDO
- b) Introduction into UNIDOs Europe and NIS Programme - Mr. Grzegorz Donocik, Chief, Europe and NIS Programme, UNIDO
- c) The Carpathian Convention - Mr. Harald Egerer, Head, Vienna Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention, UNEP
- d) Regional Programmatic Framework Approach to Renewable Energy Development in the Carpathian Region - Mr. Pradeep Monga, Chief, Renewable and Rural Energy Unit, UNIDO
- e) UNEPs Activities in the field of Energy Policy and Financing - Mr. Jyoti Prasad Painuly, UNEP
2. Session: Policy Options for the Promotion of Renewable Energies in the Carpathian Region:
- a) Challenges to be addressed in Renewable Energy policy – Mr Mark Howells, IAEA
- b) Renewable Energy Policy Options for the Carpathian Region – Mr. Mark Draeck, IT Power
- c) Economic and policy challenges for wood energy in the Carpathian Region, Volker Sasse, FAO [ENG] [RU]
- d) Austrian Energy Agency and its activities in the frame of international Cooperations – Ms Karin Reiss, Austrian Energy Agency
3. Session: Financing Mechanisms for the Promotion of Renewable Energies in the Carpathian Region:
4. Session: Regional Outlook – Country Presentations on Renewable Energy:
- a) Brief Energy Profiles of the Carpathian Convention Countries – Mr. Andriy Mitsay
- b) Czech Republic - Vladimír Vlk, Director of Department of Sustainable Energy and Transport
- c) Poland – Ms. Ewa Gańko, Institute for Fuels and Renewable Energy, Warsaw
- d) Romania - Maria Elena Teodorescu, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
- e) Serbia – Mr. Dejan Stojadinovic, Assistant Minister for Renewable Energy
- f) Slovakia - Mr. Radoslav Slovík, Slovak Environmental Agency
- g) Ukraine - Prof. Stepan Kudrya, Institute for Renewable Energy at NAS of Ukraine
- h) Hungary - Increasing the share of renewable energy sources within the energy supply of Hungary for the sake of sustainability
5. Session: Cooperating Partners Presentations:
- a) Renewable Energy Potential and Challenges - Experiences of the Alpine Convention countries – Ms. Špela Prelc, Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention
- b) Renewable Energy Development in an Alpine Region – Example of South Tyrol - Wolfram Sparber, EURAC research
- c) RENEC - Renewable Energies for Sustainable Development of the Carpathian Region – Ms. Dorothea Palenberg, blue! advancing european projects
- d) Renewable Energies and Sustainable Development: the CEI Approach – Mr. Mykola Melenevsky, Central European Initiative (CEI)
