• January 12, 2007 •
The 1st Meeting on Energy, Municipality and Global Warming (EMCG), to be held in Madrid between 7 and 8 February, will feature the Former U.S. vice president, Al Gore, global sustainability advocate and firm believer in the idea of \u200b\u200bclimate change.
The director of the meeting, John Bold, explained that the holding of this conference is part 'In the urgency of raising public awareness in general and provide a solution to climate change, with a vision that integrates innovative policies from public authorities. "
For this reason, the event - to be opened by the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz Gallardon, while the closure is payable by the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade Joan Clos - is aimed at public authorities responsible for , entrepreneurs, technicians, academics and all those concerned with global warming and climate change.
In the case of Al Gore, former Vice President will give a lecture entitled 'The greatest problem of humanity today: global warming and our action to stop it', as part of their shares in favor of sustainable development, after last November will premiere the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth '( An Inconvenient Truth) - which he stars - which says that 'climate change is a real phenomenon, which is already happening as a result of human activity and not natural phenomena. "
Al Gore's lecture will be held Feb. 7 from 10:15 am, after the opening ceremony. Subsequently, the intervention will take place Acciona Chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales, after 12.30.
The time of day 7 was completed with the development of several working panels that provide energy solutions. In particular, deepen the solutions provide solar energy (with the director of the Center for New Energy Technologies Sevilla, Valeriano Ruiz), transport fuels (with the principal investigator Biofuels Group of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Magin Lapuerta) or the waste and recycling (with Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of La Laguna, Raimundo Arvelo), among other acts.
The conference will begin on 8 from 10:00 am with the plenary 'Energy efficiency and urban planning', by the director of the Municipal Housing Agency of Madrid, Ana Iglesias.
Throughout the morning, also include representatives of the English Network of Cities for Climate and members of the central and regional governments to bring their vision in this regard.
The meeting ended with the Virtual Round Table 'Is a municipal climate change policy? " consisting of a video conference with mayors of large cities. The complete program is available on the web 'www.emcg2007.com' .
Source: actualidad.terra.es /
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