Presentations
Plenary session 1 – Energy Poverty, Economic and Financial Crisis, and Climate Change
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Chairman, IPCC, and Director-General, TERI
Climate change, energy and the green economy
Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
Secretary of Environment, Mexico
Pobreza Energética, Crisis Económica y Financiera, y Cambio Climático
Plenary Session 2 - Renewable Energy and Energy Transition
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Deputy Director, IIASA, and Professor of Energy Economics, Vienna University of
Technology
Renewable Energy and Energy Transition
Plenary Session 3 – Renewable Energy Potential – Reality or Utopia
Hélène Pelosse
Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Renewable Energy Potential
Reality or Utopia?
Plenary Session 4 - Renewable Energy and the Access Agenda
Susan McDade
Resident Representative in Cuba, UNDP
Renewable Energy: Opportunities and Challenges in addressing energy poverty
Philippe Benoit
Manager, Energy Sector, Department for Sustainable Development, Latin America Region, World Bank
Renewables for Access Expansion in LAC
Edigson Pérez Bedoya
Director-General, Institute for Planning and Promotion of Energy Solutions for the
Off-grid Areas, Colombia
Energìa renovable y la Agenda de Acceso
Parallel Session 1 - Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy – New Technologies
Paolo Frankl
Head, Renewable Energy, IEA
Transition to alow-Carbon Economy - New Technologies
Nicolas Lymberopoulos
Director, Projects & Programmes, UNIDO International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies, Turkey
Hydrogen Support to the Scaling up of Renewable Energy: The role of the developing world
Stanislav Miertus
Head, Pure and Applied Chemistry Area, UNIDO International Centre for Science and High
Technology, Italy
Next Generation Biofuels: Need for new technologies
Domenico Coiro
Associate Professor, University of Naples
Clean Energy from wind, marine and river currents: practical projects carried out by ADAG research group at Department of Aerospace Engineering, Univ. of Naples Federico II
Parallel Session 2 – Renewable Energy for Industrial Applications
N. H. Ravindranath
Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India
Renewable Energy for Industrial Applications
Parallel Session 3 - Energy Efficiency
Edwin Pinero
International Chairman, ISO Project Committee 242 – Energy Managemen
The Role of Energy Efficiency in Renewable Energy
Plenary Session 5 - Future of Biofuels: Potential and Challenges
William Holmberg
Chair of the Biomass Coordinating Council, ACORE
The Blessings Of Biomass; Powering The Biomass Wheel
Greening The Americas
Plenary Session 6 - Scaling Up Investments in Renewable Energy
Luis Gómez Echeverri
Associate Director, Global Energy Assessment
Scaling Up Investments in Renewable Energy
Bruno Ferrari García de Alba
General Director, ProMexico
Es Momento de Renovar Al Planeta Con Mexico
Venkata Ramana Putti
Senior Environmental Specialist, World Bank
Scaling up Renewable Energy - Financing Needs
Nicola Melchiotti
General Manager - Mexico, ENEL Latin America
Key factors affecting renewable investments
Plenary Session 7 - Innovative Policy and Institutional Framework
Francisco Xavier Salazar Diez de Sollano
Chairman, Energy Regulatory Commission, Mexico
Innovative Policy and Institutional Framework:
the Mexican regulatory experience
Lakshman Guruswamy
Director, Center for Energy & Environmental Security (CEES), University of Colorado
Energy Justice: The Ignored Imperative
Joseph Williams
Programme Manager, Energy, Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
Energy Policy Challenges
Caribbean Community
Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes
Board Member
German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE)
Successful Policies and Frameworksfor Renewable Energy
– Lessons learnt from Germany
Summary and Key Recommendations
Ged Davis
Council Co-President, Global Energy Assessment (GEA)
Global Renewable Energy Forum Summary