December 2008 : N°16

EDITORIAL
Awakening awareness of green technologies
By Laurent ULMANN, Editor in Chief

“Greentech-Green IT“ European strategy Developments and Perspective

• Eco-friendly production to boost EU’s competitiveness and employment
  Günter VERHEUGEN, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Enterprise
  and Industry policy
• Environmental Technologies: key to Europe’s future competitiveness
  Stavros DIMAS, Commissioner for Environment
• The information society and environmental issues
  Viviane REDING, Commissioner for Information Society
• France commits to sustainable development
  Jean-Louis BORLOO, French Minister of State, Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development
  and Town & Country Planning
• “Greentech” technologies - evolution and perspectives
  Andris PIELBAGS, Commissioner for Energy
• Green energy technology and the EIB
  Simon BROOKS, Vice-President, European Investment Bank

The economic opportunity of green technologies for a sustainable environment in Europe

• Eco-Technologies: an opportunity to avert the crisis ?
  Jean-Yves LE DÉAUT, French Deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle , 1st Vice-President of Lorraine Regional Council
• Inventing and implementing sustainable development 2.0, developing
  technologies at the service of the green and connected city
  Gilles BERHAULT, President of ACIDD, European Communication and Information association for Sustainable
  Development, Board of World Agency for Digital Solidarity, French Commitee for Sustainable Development, European Partners for the Environment
• SMEs set to benefit from the Eurostars Programme
  Paul RÜBIG, Member of European Parliament, PPE-DE
• Greentechs and partnership research
  Eric PAPON, General Director of Carnot Institut MIB
• Cleantechs: an opportunity for France
  Stéphane PARPINELLI, co-founder of Cleantech Republic (a community information site devoted
  to the cleantech industry).
• Green Technologies and Climate Change
  Olivier SASSI, Economic Researcher, Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement
  et le Développement / Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

By-sector approach to “Greentech-Green IT“: towards better optimization of resources

• Partnering for Environmental Sustainability
  John VASSALLO, VP Corporate Affairs Microsoft Europe
• ICT, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change
  Pilar DEL CASTILLO, Member of European Parliament, PPE-DE
• Corporate citizenship and sustainable development
  Bruno HOURDEL, Marketing Director, Sun Microsystems
• Positive economy: IT as a lever
  Fred BORDAGE - green IT expert, Green IT.fr
• The green revolution in information and communication technologies  is underway !
  Christian Hiller, Chief Executive Officer at EMC France
• The Green Data Center: Software as the energy efficiency enabler
  Michel BENSADOUN, VP EMEA Western Symantec
• Promoting a quality approach for large-scale solar thermal systems through a performance guarantee. The East-GSR project example in five Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC)
  Stéphane POUFFARY, Head of the International Expertise in Energy Management Unit
  ADEME – French Environment and Energy Management Agency
  Charlotte COLLEU, Project Officer - International Expertise in Energy Management Unit
  ADEME – French Environment and Energy Management Agency
• Contribution of Semiconductors in improving the power efficiency of high volume professional and consumer electronics
  Jacques LE BERRE, Director Marketing & Business Development, Power and Lighting Solutions,
  NXP SemiConductors
• Optimizing the exploitation of transport networks for sustainable mobility
  Jean-Baptiste LESORT, Scientific Director of INRETS (The french national institute for transport
  and safety research)
• Chemistry and Sustainable Development
  Professeur Marc Lemaire, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Laboratoire de Catalyse
  et Synthèse Organique