09:00 - 10:45

Arnaud Berger (France)
Head Of Sustainability - Banque Fédérale Des Banques Populaires

Mungo Park (United Kingdom)
Chairman - Innovator Capital Limited

Environmental Technologies - Financing the early stages

Silvio Mattanza (Switzerland )
Managing Director - Zegora Investment Management Ltd.

EU policies as Value Drivers in Environmental Technology The presentation outlines the main priority areas of the EU's Sixth Environment Action Programme (EAP) and examines through which policiesand regulatory instruments they are being addressed. In addition, conclusions are drawn regarding which investment opportunities are created as a consequence of implementing the EAP.

Fabrizio Donini Ferretti (France)
Direction des Financements de Projets - Dexia Credit Local

Financing technologies or regulatory frameworks?

1) Environmental technologies are becoming mature, but many are not yet competitive and mostly driven by externalities: support is still required to finance projects based on such technologies. What does it take to finance them?
2) Many such technologies are new, not proven, or designed for distributed generation and demand-side management. How to address these challenges from a financing perspective?