The document announces an international conference on resource efficiency and eco-efficiency being held in Prague on January 24, 2012. The conference will mark the opening of the Czech Republic's presidency of the European PREPARE network and discuss implementing the new "Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe". Topics will include the experience of Czech businesses with eco-efficiency, support at the political level, and strengthening cooperation networks. The event is organized by the EMPRESS Sustainable Consumption and Production Platform under the Czech Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Industry and Trade.

1. under the auspices of
Conference Invitation
Where are resource efficiency and eco-efficiency going
after twenty years?
International conference at the occasion of the opening of the Czech Presidency of European
network PREPARE 2012 - 2014 and the adoption of the “Roadmap to a Resource Efficient
Europe”
Date: Tuesday, January 24th 2012, 9:30 - 16:00
Place: Hotel Diplomat, Evropská 15, Prague 6
Organized by: Platform for Sustainable Consumption and Production EMPRESS
under the aegis of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of
Industry and Trade and of the Czech Republic and the Czech Chamber of Commerce
supported by PREPARE
We would like to invite you to the international conference which is thematically focused on the
eco-efficiency in the Czech Republic. The term "eco-efficiency" is used as an umbrella concept for
activities in the field of industrial management for sustainable development of systematic
approaches to the more efficient use of resources. These activities have begun already in 1992
under different names like cleaner production, pollution prevention, cleaner technologies, waste
minimization or later also sustainable consumption and production. Today these preventive and
proactive approaches receive new impulses not only in the form of rising material and energy
prices and changing markets, but also in the form of increasing opportunities for innovation at
all levels of a business. In September 2011 the European Commission adopted the "Roadmap to
a Resource Efficient Europe”, which can be a starting point for discussion on further steps for the
effective and sustainable business.
Main topics of the conference:
 Opening of the Czech Presidency of PREPARE 2012 – 2014
 Eco efficiency in the Czech Republic – experience of managers of enterprises, support at
the political level and practical benefits for industry and businesses, municipalities and
regions
 Introduction of the "Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe” and its implementation
in the Czech Republic
 Strengthening of the network of initiatives in the area of eco-efficiency in the Czech
Republic and connections with foreign networks (especially with the European network
PREPARE and global network RECP Net). Meeting with representatives of these
networks.
Registration for the conference: until January 18th 2012 via e-mail: office@empress.cz or
tel.: 284 007 498
The conference fee is 50 EUR per day. Participants can pay this fee together with the hotel
accommodation.
www.empress.cz
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2. under the auspices of
Programme:
Time Topic Lecturer
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
Twenty years of eco-efficiency and resource efficiency in the Czech Republic
9:30 Theatrical surprise
Tomáš Chalupa, Minister of the
9:45 – 9:55 Opening speech
Environment of the Czech Republic
Representative of
The New Way of Resource Policy in Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade CR
9:55 - 10:05
Republic
Libor Láznička, Dir., Barum Continental
10:05 – 10:50 Experience of the Czech enterprises Pavel Vajčner, Dir., Znovín Znojmo
Ladislav Kašpar, Dir., P-D Refractories
Jiří Študent, Director of the Czech
10:50 – 11:00 Experience from implementation of eco-efficiency
Environment Management Centre
11:00 - 11:20 Break
Support to eco-efficiency and ressource efficiency within international networks
Sylvie Lemmet, director, UNEP Division
of Technology, Industry and Economics
UN support to eco-efficiency and global network for (tbc)
11:20 – 11:40 Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP
Net) Heinz Leuenberger, Director,
Environmental Management Branch
UNIDO
Introduction of PREPARE - European eco-efficiency Professor Stig Hirsbak, Secretary of the
11:40 – 11:50
network and its selected projects previous PREPARE Secretariat
Corporate social responsibility as the basis for eco- Kim Christiansen, PREPARE
11:50 – 12:00
efficiency and trends in its application in Europe
12:00 - 12:10 PREPARE strategy for the next 3 years Zdeněk Horsák, President of PREPARE
Introducing of the new portal for sustainable Jiří Hřebíček, EMPRESS
12:10 - 12:20 consumption and production and more efficient use
of resources
Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Czech Republic
Pawel Kazmierczyk, European
12:20 - 12:40 Resource efficiency in Europe
Environment Agency
12:40 - 13:00 Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe Pavel Misiga, European Commission
Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade
Czech Ministry of Environment
Panel discussion & press conference on the topic Czech Environmental Information
"Where are we heading with more efficient use of Agency
13:00-14:00 resources and eco-efficiency?"
PREPARE
Reflections of lessons learned, next steps and UNIDO/UNEP
opportunities for cooperation.
European Commission
Czech Chamber of Commerce
Networking meeting with tasting wine of Znovín
Znojmo (the first wine producer worldwide to
14:00-16:00 introduce Cleaner production and ISO 14001 which
continues with activities in the field of Sustainable
Consumption and Production)
Conference languages are Czech and English with interpretation.
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