The board of the Edison Electric Institute elected Ted Craver Jr., CEO of California-based Edison International, as chairman of EEI, the national association of investor-owned electric utilities. Also elected were three vice chairmen: Nick Akins, CEO of Ohio-based American Electric Power; Tom Fanning, CEO of Georgia-based Southern Company; and Chris Crane, CEO of Illinois-based Exelon Corporation. EEI also promoted Brian L. Wolff from SVP to EVP of Public Policy and External Affairs.
Lo scorso 15 novembre il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato il disegno di legge “Collegato Ambiente” alla legge di Stabilità, con lo scopo di promuovere nuove misure di green economy, modelli di sviluppo riguardanti le energie rinnovabili, il trasporto ecologico, la gestione delle risorse naturali, l’edilizia ecosostenibile eccetera. L’intento è ovviamente quello di incentivare comportamenti virtuosi da parte dei Comuni e dei cittadini.
Fuori, una scatola; dentro, una piazza come luogo d incontro. La struttura del Padiglione Italia a Expo 2015 sarà alta 25 metri, avrà cinque piani e una terrazza panoramica. Una struttura ramificata come un albero della vita costruita da Nemesi & Partners, Proger Spa, BMS Progetti e nata fra Roma, Pescara e Milano.
A leaked draft of a report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is understood to concede that the computer predictions for global warming and the effects of carbon emissions have been proved to be inaccurate. The report, to be published later this month, is a six year assessment which is seen as the gospel of climate science and is cited to justify fuel taxes and subsidies for renewable energy.
The “Plan”: how to integrate economic development and environmental quality.
Discussants
• Giancarlo Allen, National Secretary ANAB (National Association of Bio-ecological Architecture)
• Bellicini Lorenzo, Director CRESME (Center for Economic Research Social Market for Building and Land)
• Paolo Buzzetti, President of ANCE (National Association of Builders)
• Firouz Galdo, Architect, Scientific Committee at CFS
• Marzio Galeotti, Professor, Economics of Environment and Energy – University of Milan
• Luigi Paganetto, President at Enea
Second Session
The prospects of the Italian G8 Presidency for the climate, energy and the environment
Speaker:
Franco Frattini – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Moderator:
Francesco Rutelli – President at Center for a Sustainable Future
Promoter of the initiative are various deputies and senators belonging to the Parliamentary Committee of the Center for a Sustainable Future: Emma Bonino, Pier Ferdinando Casini, Roberto Della Seta, Stefano De Lillo, Piero Fassino, Fabio Granata, Giuseppe Leoni, Maurizio Lupi, Marianna Madia, Hermes Realacci, Gianni Vernetti, Santo Versace.
Center for a Sustainable Future
Institute of European Democrats
Center for American Progress
Nuclear power and the future of energy: What will change after Fukushima and on the eve of the referendum?
Rome, June 7, 2011 hours 9:30 to 13:00
Sala Mappamondo – Chamber of Deputies
Program
9:30 am Registration
10.00 Start
New international developments
Japan after Fukushima
– Hirotami Murakoshi, MP, Special Commission on Fukushima, Tokyo
Terrorist threats: risks and prevention
– Stefano Casertano, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Potsdam, Germany
The program of stress tests on plants in Europe
– Luigi Paganetto, President of the Foundation Economia Tor Vergata
The outlook in Italy
– Flavio Cattaneo, Terna CEO
– Marzio Galeotti, Professor, Economics of Environment and Energy, University of Milan
– Simone Mori, General Manager Environment and Adjustment at ENEL
– Giuseppe Onufrio, Director of Greenpeace Italy
The policy choices towards the June 12th – 13th referendum
Francesco Rutelli, President of the Center for a Sustainable Future Stefano Saglia, Undersecretary of Energy, italian government
Parliamentarians – members of the Center for a Sustainable Future: Pier Ferdinando Casini, Roberto Della Seta, Stefano De Lillo, Fabio Granata, Maurizio Lupi, Marianna Madia, Ermete Realacci, Gianni Vernetti, Santo Versace
