Friday, June 14th 2013
10.00 a.m.: Introduction
Reinhard Bütikofer, Co-Chair of the European Green Party and Member of the European Parliament
Jürgen Suhr, Chair of the Green Parliamentary Group in the Regional Parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
10.15 a.m.:Welcome Speeches
Claudia Müller, Co-Chair of the German Green Party Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Holger Matthäus, Senator Building and Environment, Hanseatic City Rostock
10.30 a.m.: Keynote “Green Growth in the Baltic Sea Region – Strategies, Problems, Possibilities”
Reinhard Bütikofer, Co-Chair of the European Green Party and Member of the European Parliament
11.15 a.m.: Panel discussion “Different perspectives in the Baltic Sea Region – do we have a common target?”
Valdur Lahtvee, Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn
Jürgen Suhr, Chair of the Green Parliamentary Group in the Regional Parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Stephan Müchler, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Sweden and President of the Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association
Maxi Nachtigall, Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States Expert Group on Sustainable Development (Baltic21)
Presented by: Tobias Etzold, German Institute for International and Security Affairs Berlin
2.30 p.m.: Workshops
Workshop ENERGY
Dr. Martynas Nagevicius, President of the Lithuanian Confederation of Renewable Resources | presentation
Dr. Graham Butt, Deputy Head of Department Energy in the Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and State Development Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | presentation
Vladimir Sliviak, Co-Chair of the Russian Environmental Group Ecodefense, Kaliningrad
Jóannes J. Gaard, Socialist People’s Party Denmark | presentation
Presented by: Johann-Georg Jaeger, Spokesman on Energy in the Green Parliamentary Group in the State Parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Workshop MARITIME INDUSTRY
Björn Pistol, Maritime Industry Expert
Ralf Plump, Germanischer Lloyd SE | presentation
Dr. Reinhard Lüken, German Shipbuilding and Ocean Industries Association
Presented by: Angela Schultz-Zehden, General Manager sustainable-projects GmbH Berlin
Workshop TOURISM
Wolfgang Günther, Institute for Tourism and Research in Northern Europe | presentation
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Steingrube, University of Greifswald, Institute of Geography | presentation
Bernd Fischer, Tourism Association Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Jörg Schmiedel, Coordinator Baltic Green Belt | presentation
Presented by: Jochen Lamp, WWF Baltic Sea Office
Workshop RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE BALTIC SEA
Anja Schillhaneck, Spokeswoman on Science, Research and Technology of the Green Parliamentary Group in the Regional Parliament of Berlin
Georg Niekelski, Baltic Sea Foundation Greifswald | presentation
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bathmann, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde | presentation
Presented by: Katharina Fegebank, Chair of the German Green Party Hamburg
6.00 p.m.: Report “Green Growth as a topic of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference”
Bernd Voß, Spokesman on Europe of the Green Parliamentary Group of the Regional Parliament in Schleswig-Holstein | Speech
Comments:
Linas Balsys, Member of the Lithuanian Parliament, Chairman of the Lithuanian Green Party
Hans Manzke, Association of the Entrepreneurs Associations Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Saturday, June 15th 2013
9.30 a.m.: Discussion on the results of the Workshops
Reinhard Bütikofer, Jürgen Suhr and the moderators of the workshops
10.00 a.m.: Keynote „Perspectives for Green Growth in the Baltic Sea Region“
Ville Niinistö, Minister of the Environment Finland
Comments:
Ewa Kos, Member of Regional Parliament of the Voivodeship Western Pomerania | presentation
Mats Pertoft, Spokesman on Taxation of the Green Parliamentary Group in the Swedish Parliament
