20 Oct 2016
9:00-10:15
2 AUDITORIUMS (FRANCESC CAMBÓ & PAU GIL)
Panel on circular economy businesses in the Mediterranean
We will highlight challenges of plastics material flows in the Mediterranean and a wide array of business-driven innovations to tackle them towards circular economy. Our speakers include Paola Migliorini, Team Leader Circular Economy, Unit B1 – Sustainable production, products and consumption, DG Environment, European Commission;James Pennington, Project Specialist, Circular Economy, World Economic Forum; Maria Cristina Fossi, Associate Professor of ecology and ecotoxicology at the University of Siena Team Leader of the UfM labelled project “Plastic Busters for a Mediterranean Free from Litter”; Hasso von Pogrell, Managing Director, European Bioplastics and Stefano Facco, New Business Development Director, Novamont.