CSR and Climate Change: Between Growing Public Expectations and a Lack of Global Response


July 16th, 2014

College of Law and Business – Ramat Gan

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09.00
Registration

09.30
Greetings
Prof. David Menasheri, President of the College of Law and Business –

State Secretary (ret.) Michael Mertes, Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Israel –
                                   
10.00 – 11.00
Session I: Public policy towards climate change in Germany and Israel and the lack of international governance
Key Speaker
Ms. Franziska Fabritius, Desk Officer Environmental, Climate and Energy Policy, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung –  On the way to Paris 2015: The german climate policy in the international context
Responding
Dr. Gil Proactor, Head of Climate Change Department, Ministry of Environmental Defense – The Israeli Governmental program for Climate Change
 
11.00 – 11.15
Coffee break
 
11.30 – 13.00
Session II: Mandatory Vs. Voluntary – What is the best way to move forward
Opening presentations
Zimu Yang, The University of Chicago Law School (CSRI internship student) “Climate Change and the corporate law, examples
for implementations

Yuval Neuman, (CSRI internship student) – presenting a new survey findings “Israeli companies response to the Governmental Voluntary Carbon Registry

Responding
Liad Ortar, Head of Sustainability Reporting, CSRI and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Naor Yerushalmi, CEO “Life & Environment” -The Israeli Union of Environmental NGOs
Lior Shmueli, CEO EcoFinance (Head of the CDM Governmental Committee and a carbon trade expert
 
13.00 –14.00
Lunch
 
14.00 – 15.30
Session III: Responses of corporations who find themselves between growing public expectations and a lack of global governance
 
Key Speaker
Andreas Renner, Head of Berlin & Brussels office of EnBW and former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, the – federal state of Baden-Wurttemberg: "Consequences of an unstable regulatory environment: An utilities view

Responding
Dr. Noam Gressel, CEO Assif Strategies, Partner at Graylock
Tal Goldrat, Head of Green Campus, the Technion
Alon Gendelman, HP Indigo’s environmental program coordinator

15.30 – 16.00

Networking & Refreshments in the lobby
 

 Working language of this symposium is English