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Launch of the First Transatlantic Platform on Environmental Technologies at the 6th La Baule World Investment Conference


    The main conclusion of the 2007 La Baule WIC was a strong demand for

    transatlantic cooperation to accelerate R&D and business initiatives in

    GreenTech. The Transatlantic Green Platform will take place on June 5

    in La Baule (France) at the initiative of the Europe Plus

    Foundation. Some 200 innovative companies, investors, researchers and

    European and American politicians will meet to enhance transatlantic

    cooperation on technologies with strong impact on the environment and

    in particular, renewables. In addition, 20 selected European and US

    start-ups will present their innovative technologies.

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    I. The first Transatlantic Green Platform: June 5, 2008 (10.30 AM -

    7:00 PM), La Baule (France)
    The discussions of the 2007 World Investment Conference on "Global

    environmental challenges and economic opportunities for Europe" resulted in a series of recommendations, including the need to

    strengthen the transatlantic dialogue. The objective is to set up

    cooperation, partnerships, research, innovation and business

    opportunities among the main actors within environmental technologies.
    Thus, a few days before the French EU Presidency and on the World

    Environment Day, the Europe Plus Foundation launches the first

    transatlantic platform on environmental technologies. This

    initiative is supported by several Member States (Italy, Spain, France

    Scandinavia) and two American states (California and Texas), and will

    contribute to Europe Plus´s input to the

    French Presidency on the issue of environment.
    II. Numerous debates and roundtables with representatives from

    Economy, Research and Policy
    The conference includes two sessions:

    Morning: presentation of innovative GreenTech companies from Europe

    and the US

    Afternoon: transatlantic dialogue on environmental technologies.

    Some 200 experts will bring their contribution to the general theme of

    this conference: "How to develop R&D in favor

    of renewables?"
    The transatlantic exchanges will address three main themes:

    "Bringing Green to Market"

    dedicated to technology transfer

    "Public Policies, a Driver for Green"

    devoted to public policy incentives

    "Financing R&D and new Business in Green"

    on financing of research in innovative companies.

    III. The participants
    High-level representatives from the main industrial energy groups (GE, SIEMENS, TOTAL, BP, EDF, GDF, ENEL, ENI, ENDESA, AREVA, IBERDROLA

    ABENGOA, E.ON"¦) and specialized Venture

    Capitalists (ALOE, ETF"¦) will be

    present. Some 80 Texan and Californian key actors are part of the

    US delegation coordinated by the University of Sacramento. Experts

    include Lorraine Bolsinger, Vice-President Ecomagination, GE -

    Kai-Oliver Kölmel, Vice President of the

    Renewable Energy Division of Siemens - Andreas Wild, Director

    Technology Solutions, EMEA, Freescale Semiconductor"¦
    The closing session will be made by a dozen of high-level political

    economic and scientific decision makers including Jean-Louis

    Borloo, French Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and

    Spacial Planning, Rick Perry and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governors of

    California and Texas, Maud Olofsson, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for

    Enterprise and Energy, Sweden, and a representative from Mr Zapatero´s

    Government (Spain).
    The recommendations of the first Transatlantic Green Platform will be

    presented at a press conference planned for Thursday June 5, at 8 PM, immediately after the official closing session, which will include the

    above key figures. Accreditation for this press meeting is requested.
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    The Europe+ Foundation is an independent platform that supplies

    analytical tools and governance guidance to promote the attractiveness

    and competitiveness of the European Union, its Member States and

    regions. The Foundation´s aim is to take the

    conclusions of WIC working groups further and ensure follow-up of

    recommendations addressed to the European Commission and the European

    Parliament, as well as to governments and Member States. "Europe+

    is a dynamic platform founded on the exchange of best practices, the

    diversity of its members, the multiplicity of its experiences and

    public-private partnership. We are neither a lobby associated with

    particular interest groups, nor a traditional think tank working on

    general or purely theoretical positions," remind the two Co-Chairmen of the Foundation. The high-level think tank

    of Europe+ gathers more than a hundred international personalities drawn

    from the world of business, government and academia.