17:30 - 17:45

Introductions and Welcoming Address

17:45 – 18:45

Adapting to Climate Risks Challenges

• Convener: Natasa Pilides
• Presenters / panelists:
  1. The Role of Energy Storage for Decarbonizing the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (Nestor Fylaktos)
  2. Climate Health in the Urban Environment (Jos Lelieveld)
  3. Urban Overheating in the MENA Region: Prospects and Challenges (Panos Hadjinicolaou)
  4. Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage (Nikolas Bakirtzis & Anthi Kaldeli)

19:00 – 19:45

Transnational Cooperation to Address the EMME Climate Crisis

• Convener: Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
• Presenters / panelists:

  1. Climate change diplomacy to combat inequality (Elise Machline)

  2. The Environmental Change-Migration-Conflict Nexus in the Mediterranean (Manfred Lange)
  3. The WEFE4MED PRIMA Community of Practice: Integrating Water, Energy, Food, and Ecosystems for a Sustainable Mediterranean (Fadi Comair)

20:00

Welcome Cocktail Event – The Waves Beach Bar Radisson Beach Hotel

08:00 - 08:30

Arrivals & Registration

08:30 – 09:30

Opening Session:

• Costas N. Papanicolas, Chair of the Organizing Committee
• Stavros Malas, President of The Cyprus Institute
• Achilles Emilianides, President of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts
• Maria Panayiotou, Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, Cyprus
• HRH Prince Hasan bin Talal of Jordan
• H.E. Nikos Christodoulides, President of the Republic of Cyprus

09:30 - 09:45

Break & Poster Set-up

09:45 – 10:45

I. The Evolving Climate Crisis: The Scientific Basis

• Convener: Jos Lelieveld
• Speakers/panelists: Philip Ciais, Diana Francis, Markku Kulmala, Jean Sciare

10:45 – 12:15

II. Mitigation Strategies & Challenges

The Technological Challenge to Decarbonizing the Regional Economy

• Convener: Andreas Poullikkas
• Speakers/panelists: Bassam Dally, Brian Norton, Khaled Toukan

The Socioeconomic Barriers to Decarbonizing the Regional Economy

• Convener: Theodoros Zachariadis
• Speakers/panelists: Loukas Christophorou, Charles Ellinas, Manal Shehabi

12:15 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 16:00

III. Impacts and Adaptation Pathways

13:30 - 14:15

Water-Food-Migration Nexus

• Convener: Fadi Comair
• Speakers/panelists: Hassan Janabi, Jacob Waslander, Nasser Yassin

14:15 - 15:15

Extreme Events (Heatwaves, Droughts, Floods etc., and Health)

• Convener: George Zittis
• Speakers/panelists: Mansour Almazroui, Robin Fears, Panos Hadjinicolaou, Marlene Tomaszkiewicz

15:15 - 16:00

Marine & Terrestrial Environment & Biodiversity

• Convener: Constantinos Kounnamas
• Speakers/Panelists: Nicolas Jarraud, Ioannis Karakassis, Naïm Ouaini

16:00 - 16:15

Break

16:15 - 16:45

Keynote Address

• Speaker: Ernest Moniz, Professor of Physics, MIT and former Secretary of Energy, USA

17:15 - 19:00

Wine and Cheese Reception & Poster Session (Filini Room)

08:30 - 09:00

Keynote Address

• Speaker: George Papanastasiou, Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, Cyprus

09:00 - 10:30

III. (Continued) Impacts and Adaptation Pathways

09:00 - 09:45

Cultural Heritage

• Conveners: Nikolas Bakirtzis, Anthi Kaldeli
• Speakers/panelists: Ann Bourges, Mona Haggag, Androulla Vassiliou

09:45 - 10:30

The Challenge of the Urban Environment

• Convener: Costas Cartalis
• Speakers/panelists: Isaac Meir, Didier Roux, Roberto San José García

10:30 - 12:15

IV. Decarbonization Pathways

10:30 - 11:15

The Decarbonization Pathway as a Transformative Opportunity for the Regional Economies - the Role of Climate Enabling Technologies

• Convener: Fabio Montagnino
• Speakers/panelists: Thomas Andersson, Thanh-Tâm Le, Antonia Theodosiou

11:15 - 12:15

Plans for Mitigation and Adaptation of Relevance to the EMME Region

• Convener: Thanasis Hadzilacos
• Speakers/panelists: Gidon Bromberg, Hans Bruyninckx, Ibrahim Hoteit, Eleni Sophocleous

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch

13:30 - 17:30

V. Removing the Barriers to Decarbonization

13:30 - 14:15

Financing Adaptation and Mitigation Measures

• Convener: Stavros Zenios
• Speakers/panelists: Andreas Milidonis, Angelo Riccaboni, Stavros Thomadakis

14:15 - 14:45

Keynote Address

• Speaker: Kurt Vandenberghe, Director General of DG CLIMA, European Commission

14:45 - 15:30

Legal and Constitutional Issues

• Convener: Achilles Emilianides
• Speakers/panelists: Odysseas Christou, Rafael J. Heffron, Maria Karamanof

15:30 - 15:45

Break 

15:45 - 16:45

Climate Diplomacy 

• Convener: Eleni Apeyitou
• Speakers/panelists: Gideon Behar, Nikolaos Isaris, Theodoulos Mesimeris, Charalampos Theopemptou

 16:45 - 17:30

Political, Societal and Cultural Barriers and Opportunities

•  Convener: Kyriakos Demetriou
• Speakers/panelists: Thodoris Georgakopoulos, Tareq Abu Hamed, Anna Kyprianou

19:30 - 20:30

Cultural Event at Larnaca Castle

21:00 - 22:30

Dinner at Militzis Restaurant (Cypriot Cuisine)

09:00 - 10:30

VI. Paving the Way Forward

09:00 - 09:45

Education and Outreach

• Convener: Andreas Demetriou
• Speakers/panelists: Costas Constantinou, Hany Helal, Annette Scheersoi

09:45 - 10:30

The Intangibles of Climate Change: Philosophy, Ethics and Values

• Convener: Stavros Photiou
• Speakers/panelists: Charafat Afailal, Charidemos Tsoukas, Didier Roux

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:15

Concluding Panel: From Here to the Future

• Convener: Costas N. Papanicolas
• Panelists: Achilles Emilianides, Hany Helal, Stavros Malas, Khaled Toukan, Tamar Zandberg

12:15 - 13:00

Closing Addresses

• Jeffrey Sachs, Professor at Columbia University and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
• Marilena Raouna, Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Cyprus

Conference Closes at 13:00