CEREMONIA DE APERTURA + PANEL DE ALTO NIVEL. Energías renovables: la solución para alcanzar el net-zero, el desarrollo sostenible y la seguridad y soberanía energéticas. ¡La hoja de ruta para 2050 comienza ahora!

9.30 – 11.00 Opening Ceremony (Event Driver: Lorenzo Milá)

9.30 – 9.45  Official opening

Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of the Government of Spain

9.45 – 9.50 Welcome address speech

Arthouros Zervos, President of REN21

9.50 – 10.45 High Level Discussion (Davos style): Renewable Energies to Navigate through the World of the Polycrisis: Walking the Talk on our Path to 2030

Moderator: Cristina Monge, political scientist and expert in governance for ecological transition

Francesco La Camera, Director General of IRENA
Kadri Simson, Commissioner for Energy of the European Commission
Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of Spain

10.50 – 11.00 Show cultural

11.00 – 11.45 Roundtable Energy Security: Opportunities and Challenges for a genuine Energy Union – the Energy pillar of the EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy

Keynote speaking (video): Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London

Moderator: Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of Spain

Rob Jetten, Minister of Energy of Netherlands
Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Minister of Energy of Romania
Ana Gouveia, Secretary of State of Energy of Portugal
Henrik Andersen, CEO of VESTAS

11.45 – 12.30 Roundtable Net-zero

Keynote speaking: Ren Jingdong, Vice Administrator of National Energy Administration of China

Moderator: Sara Aagesen, Secretary of State of Energy, Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of Spain

María Neira, Director, Public Health and the Environment Department, World Health Organisation
Mohamed Benyahyia, Secretary General of the Ministry for the Energy Transition and Sustainable Development of Morocco.
Heike Henn, Director Energy, Climate and Environment at the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development
Paul Heithersay, Chief Executive of the Department for Energy and Mining, Government of South Australia