EDF is launching a range of concrete initiatives showing how the practical application of the circular economy in the energy sector can drive efficiency, cost-effectiveness and performance. EDF wants to help foster the debate in Europe about a circular economy: How does it work? What projects can benefit? What contribution can the energy sector make?

Debate: Prospects for the circular economy

PROGRAMME

10:00 Welcome of participants
10:30 Keynote speech by Douglas Mulhall
11:00 Panel discussion
12:00 Q&A
12:30 Closing remarks

Speakers/Participants:

• Anne de Béthencourt, Vice-president of the Institute of the circular economy & in charge of external relations at Nicolas Hulot’s Foundation
• Françoise Bonnet, Secretary General of the Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling and Sustainable Resource Management
• Claude Laveu, senior advisor at EDF, expert in circular economy
• Paola Migliorini, policy officer, Eco-innovation Action plan, DG ENVI, European Commission
• Douglas Mulhall, Business Developer for EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH, senior researcher at Rotterdam School of Management, associate researcher Delft University of Technology and University of British Columbia Canada, and Research Fellow Technical University Munich
• Claude Nahon, Senior Vice-president Sustainable Development EDF Group

The debate will be moderated by Gavin Watt, expert in communications.

To register, please send a mail to events-brussels@edf.fr.