Chair: Laurent CORBIER, Vice-President, Sustainable Development and Continuous Improvement, AREVA; Director, Envrionment and Energy, Department of Policy and Business Practices, ICC

Planning tools in the climate debate and business opportunites, Nadia MAÏZI, Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied Mathematics, MINES ParisTech, co-responsible of the ParisTech Chair Modeling for sustainable development (PDF)

Arbitrage between energy efficiency and carbon management, Vincent MAZAURIC, Principal Scientist of SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (PDF)

Testimony on prospective issues in EDF, Jean-Yves CANEILL, Head of Environmental Affairs, EDF

Wendy POULTON, General Manager Sustainability and Innovation, ESKOM Holdings Ltd; Vice Chairs of ICC

Mr Mbacké NIANG is an architect, expert counselor for Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and researcher. He will give an overview of challenges in the buiding sector, adaptation to the African context and an overview of a recent work carried on in the NECTAR project : Présentation des résultats de l’étude sectorielle sur l’efficacité énergétiques des bâtiments en Afrique de l’Ouest, dans un contexte de changement climatique.

Mr Ferenc L. TOTH is senior energy economist at the International Atomic Enerngy Association. As nuclear was foreseen in the IEA ETP study to grow at rates higher than the historical high, he will give an overview of the situation of nuclear energy in the world and observed trends after the Fukushima accident: Nuclear power and Climate change.

Mr Vincent MAZAURIC is principal scientist at Schneider. He will give an overview of a corporate initiative BiBop to « spread access to a safe, affordable and green energy for those who need it the most ». He will also discuss reliability issues and the potential for solar thermodynamic for electricity production: BipBop – Business, Innovation, & People at the Base of the Pyramid Spread access to a safe, affordable and green energy for those who need it the most.

Mr Edi ASSOUMOU is researcher at Mines ParisTech. He will chair the side event and give an overview of the importance of long term energy system analysis tools. Capacity building around such decision support tools in Africa is another key factor in order to integrate, over several decades, the complex interactions between demands, resources, technologies and policy objectives: Prospective analysis with technology oriented models for long term energy assessment.