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International Conference
'Final Boarding Call: Air Transport, Airports and Sustainable Development'

1-2 July 2002, ESSEC, Cergy/Paris, France

Presentations - 2nd July

Day 1 | Day 2

9:00 - 12:00

Parallel Workshops - Specific Solutions
In three parallel workshops participants had the opportunity to disccuss and develop processes to mediate solutions and concrete plans for joint action. Each workshop was introduced by brief statements reflecting different standpoints

 

Workshop 1 - Local and global atmospheric pollution
Possible solutions comprise: new technology, concepts for air traffic management and air traffic demand management (incl. inter modality)

Chair: Mike Crompton, Department of local government, transport and regions, United Kingdom >> Speech
Rapporteur: Henk Brouwer, Dutch Ministry of the Environment

- 'Aviation and the Environment. Towards the Ideal Aircraft', by Reiner Von Wrede, Airbus

- Tadashi Nishimura, All Nipon Airlines

- 'La pollution atmosphérique locale et globale', by Philippe Lameloise, Airparif

- 'Aviation and Climate Change', by Ron Wit, Center for Environment and Technology, Pays-Bas

 

Workshop 2 - Management of noise pollution
Possible solutions comprise: new airplane and air traffic management technologies, air traffic demand management (incl. inter modality), legal actions on a local (e.g. nigh flight ban) or global level

Chair: Callum Thomas, University of Manchester >> Speech
Rapporteur: José Palma, University of Lisbon

- 'Management of Noise Pollution', by Tim Johnson, Greenskies/Aviation Environment Federation

- Jean-Baptiste Rigaudias, Air France

- 'Aviation and environment - a necessary compromise', by Dan Andrei, Romanian Civil Aviation Authority

 

Workshop 3 - Acceptability of airports - planning and environmental management
Possible solutions comprise: spatial planning, infrastructure, sensitive areas and environmental management of airports

Chair: Philippe Crist, OECD
Rapporteur: Eric Ehlers, National Federation of Transport Users

- 'La fin du survol de Bruxelles?', by Yvan Vandenbergh, Bruxelles Air Libre

- 'Limiting Airport - Related Air Emissions', by Jake Schmidt, Center for Clean Air Policy, Washington, USA

- 'Mediation Airport Frankfurt & Regional Dialogue Forum', by Christian Hochfeld, Öko Institut

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Plenary Session 3 - Report from the workshops

 

Chair: George Paulson, Eurocontrol
Rapporteur: Laurence de Carlo, ESSEC

- Henk Brower, rapporteur workshop 1

- José Palma, rapporteur workshop 2

- Eric Ehlers, rapporteur workshop 3

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:45

Plenary Session 4 - What next? A proposal for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
In this session recommendations resulting from the workshops were agreed and both ways to move forward and how they can be introduced in Johannesburg were discussed

Chair: Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel, UNEP Director
Rapporteur: Thierry Sibieude, Conseil général du Val d'Oise

- Béatrice Schell, T&E

- Jean-Baptiste Rigaudias, Air France

- Georges Paulson, Eurocontrol

16:45 - 17:00

Closing of the Conference

- Thierry Sibieude, Vice-President of the Conseil Général du Val d'Oise >> Speech

- Dominique Dron, President of the Interministry mission of the greenhouse effect >> Speech

 

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