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Publish date: October 9, 2009
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Paal Frisvold, Chairman of Bellona Europa’s board, took part in the event, presenting the concept of co-ordinating capture, transportation and storage of CO2.
Frisvold who participated in the first panel discussion of the event, along with Kai B. Lima of StatoilHydro and Jesse Scott of E3G, underscored that Poland could profit economically from CCS, being a net importer of clean energy in the coming decades. He also stressed the importance of using coal with bio-mass in Polish power plants.
This high-level conference gathered many experts in energy policy, representatives of business, public organisatons, NGOs and the media. Among oter speakers at the event were Jostein Dahl Karlsen, Chairman of the Fossil Fuels Working Party of the International Energy Agency, Jacek Piekacz, Committee Chairman of the Polish Platform for Clean Coal Technologies, Chris Bolesta of the European Commission’s Deparment of Transportation and Energy (DG TREN), Henryk Majchrzak, Director of the Energy Department for Poland’s Ministry of Economy, and Aker Clean Carbon Technology Director Oskar Graff.
After the conference, Frisvold took part in a key-note speech by the British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and Member of Parliament Ed Miliband. The speech was held in the Warsaw School of Economics and organised by demosEUROPA and the British Embassy in Warsaw.
The economic benefits of a global deal on climate change to be accepted at the December conference in Copenhagen were the topic of the lecture, after which a lively debate with the audience took place.
Miliband emphasized that preparing to strike a new global climate deal must be treated as a generational matter: should we desist from acting now, what are we going to tell our children?
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