ICC ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMISSION ENERGY TASK FORCE FEEDBACK

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ICC ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMISSIONENERGY
TASK FORCE FEEDBACK

• 4 OCTOBER 2006

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CSD 15

• Report on CSD 14 circulated to Commission and
  national committees lessons learnt have been
  fed into BAE
• Schedule of meetings and logistics
• Bureau members
• H.E. Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah (Qatar) -
  Minister of Energy and Industry (CHAIR), Ms.
  Frances Lisson (Australia), Mr. Alain Edouard
  Traore (Burkina Faso), Mr. Jirí Hlavácek (Czech
  Republic) and Mr. Luiz Alberto Figueiredo
  (Brazil)
• No Regional Implementation Meetings are held
  during a Policy year
• CSD-15  Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting
  (IPM) - 26 Feb - 2 Mar 2007

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CSD 15

• CSD 15 - New York from the 30 April 2007 11 May
  2007
• It was agreed that we want an ICC specific side
  event and that it should be with a partner if
  possible
• The topic and potential partners will be decided
  closer to the time
• Need to update the overall ICC position paper and
  identify any policy gaps once the agendas for IPM
  and CSD 15 are available
• Agreed that we need to finalise documents on
  energy efficiency and energy security (if
  possible). Comments to the secretariat on the
  energy efficiency paper by end October and an aim
  to finalise the paper by end November
• The paper in industrial development also needs to
  be reviewed once agendas are out. It was noted
  that it was critical that ICC have a view on this
  important issue

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BAE

• Feedback from BAE
• Norine has agreed to be ICCs rep on the working
  group
• ICC members have given comments into the
  priorities for action document
• A media strategy has been developed, ICC will
  need to make resources available as they did last
  year
• ICC should be preparing more detailed speaking
  notes to assist members who may be asked to make
  interventions
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G8

• Feedback from recent meetings and action plan
  from St.Petersburg held on 15 -17 July 2006
• Objective - Energy is essential to improving the
  quality of life and opportunities in developed
  and developing nations. Therefore, ensuring
  sufficient, reliable and environmentally
  responsible supplies of energy at prices
  reflecting market fundamentals is a challenge for
  our countries and for mankind as a whole
• Key areas
• increasing transparency, predictability and
  stability of global energy markets
• improving the investment climate in the energy
  sector
• enhancing energy efficiency and energy saving
• diversifying energy mix
• ensuring physical security of critical energy
  infrastructure
• reducing energy poverty
• addressing climate change and sustainable
  development.
• Need to keep an eye on the progress and identify
  areas for business input
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Energy security paper

• Comments received and included into a draft which
  was now ready for broader circulation and
  comment
• It was agreed that the paper would be required
  for input into a number of forums and not
  specifically for the G8 process
• Agreed that comments would be sent to the
  secretariat by end October
• The process would be an iterative one

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Upcoming energy or related meetings

• UNEP business and industry meeting in Paris
• UNEP GC meeting in Nairobi
• COP 12 in Nairobi
• Jhb 5 in South Africa during Sept 2007
• 3rd Partnerships Fair in SA
• The World Energy Congress in Rome during November
  2007
• G8 meetings in 2007 in Germany and 2008 in Japan
• IEA activities

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Way Forward

• May need to have another meeting before the April
  Commission meeting
• A conference call would be set up once the CSD
  agendas were out to decide if this would be
  necessary or not
• At the October meeting next year, a review of
  activities and forums would take place and a work
  programme for the next year defined
• It was agreed that the current focus was
  appropriate