Conservatives are natural conservationists
On the 14th November 2019, in Brussels the European Conservatives and Reformists Party will be organising a one day seminar looking at how we can best improve our environment using market mechanisms; the innovation & entrepreneurship that comes from capitalism, and the natural sense of stewardship and trusteeship that is part of Burkean conservatism. Alongside governmental initiatives it is vital that conservatives promote both corporate and individual responsibility in environmental issues. Environmentalism, and the world we live in, are altogether too important to be left to the left.
This will be the fifth Blue Green Summit that ECR Party is organising in two years, and on this occasion we will dedicate specific sessions to:
· Managing Deforestation and Rewilding, and
· Delivering a Sustainable and Clean Energy Mix with special emphasis on waste-to-energy sector innovation and developments
Representatives from global industries including from Malaysia, Brazil, and Indonesia, as well as European Green Innovators and investors will attend this event alongside European politicians, policy makers and thought leaders, to discuss environmental challenges and how to better address them.
Location
TreeSquare
Square de Meeûs 5-6, 1000 Bruxelles
Speakers
Jan Zahradil MEP
ACRE President, Vice-Chairman, International Trade Committee, European Parliament
Dato’ Carl Bek-Nielsen
Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Director of United Plantations
Hermann Tertsch MEP
Member of Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Daniel Hannan
Author and Columnist, former Member of the European Parliament, President of Initiative for Free Trade, United Kingdom
James Delingpole
Conservative columnist and novelist
Andrei Marcu
Executive Director of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition
Datuk Frank Anthony Dass
Richard Milsom
ECR Party Executive Director
João Henrique Bayão
Mission of Brazil to the EU
Paul De Bruycker
CEO Indaver
Isabel Banjumea MEP
Vice-Chair Committee on Regional Development
Boyana Achovski
Secretary General, Gas Infrastructure Europe
Agenda
9:30
Keynote by Jan Zahradil MEP
9:45
Keynote by Dato’ Carl Bek Nielsen, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Director of United Plantations
10:00
Keynote by Daniel Hannan MEP
10:15
Panel on Managing Deforestation and Rewilding:
Chair: Daniel Hannan MEP
Panelists:
- Datuk Frank Anthony Dass
- James Delingpole, Conservative columnist and novelist
- Hermann Tertsch MEP
- João Henrique Bayão
11.15
Coffee Break
11.45
Keynote by Dr Alan Riley - Senior Fellow Atlantic Council
12:00
Keynote by James Delingpole, Conservative columnist and novelist
12:15
Keynote by João Henrique Bayão, Embassy of Brazil to the EU
12:30
Panel on Delivering a Sustainable and Clean Energy Mix with special emphasis on waste-to-energy sector innovation and developments
Chair: Jan Zahradil MEP
Panelists:
- Andrei Marcu, Executive Director of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition
- Paul de Bruycker, CEO of the Indaver Group
- Dato’ Carl Bek Nielsen, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Director of United Plantations
- Isabel Benjumea MEP, Vice Chair Committee on Regional Development
- Boyana Achovski, Secretary General, Gas Infrastructure Europe
13:30
Closing Speech by Richard Milsom, ECR Party Executive Director