Decreasing of carbon footprint from housing & social infra buildings, mobility and waste management

15.9.2021 10:00 - 15.9.2021 16:00

Future Energy Solutions Conference - Green Electrification and Hydrogen economy / SIDE-EVENT

Organized by Cata3Pult and BBC1 projects with city of Lappeenranta as cooperation partner

Decreasing of carbon footprint from housing and social infrastructure buildings, mobility & logistics and efficiency of municipal waste management

- International and interesting speakers and topics of sustainable development and business in cross-border context
- Possible meeting and discussions with experts and colleagues
- Visit to South Karelian Waste Management Center and Biogas Plant

Location: Hybrid event in Lappeenranta City hall and remote via ZOOM

Simultaneous translation for participants: Finnish-Russian-English

Programme:

10:00- 10:05 Opening - City of Lappeenranta, Terhi Jantunen, Advisor, development services, City of Lappeenranta

10:05 - 10:25 Future view on Electrification & Hydrogen, Petteri Laaksonen, Research Director, LUT University

10:25-10:40 R&D&I projects in Electrification & Hydrogen topics, Timo Seuranen, Senior Lecturer, Metropolia University of Applied Science

10:40 - 11:00 Decreasing carbon footprint from buildings, mobility and waste management at the city of Rubi, Ana Maria Martínez, the Mayor and Andres Medrano, city councillor for Energy and Environment, City of Rubi, Spain

Energy efficiency for housing and social infrastructure

11:00 - 11:15 Feasibility studies of Cata3Pult project on energy efficiency and advanced business models for housing and social infrastructure buildings - case studies from City of Lappeenranta and St. Petersburg, Niina Laasonen, Energy Expert, Sweco

11:15-11:30 Calculations of carbon footprint cases from different types of housing buildings from St. Petersburg, Anna Prokofeva, Project Coordinator, KOSMOS LLC

11:30 - 11:40 Short break

Clean fuels for smart & green mobility & logistic

11:40 - 11:55 Electrical vehicles case example from St. Petersburg, Aleksei Alekseevich Trofimov, the general director, AVT&Co and Oleg Rebeza, “Smart city” program of Leningrad region Competence Center adviser, the city centre for parking sites management adviser.

11:55 - 12:10 Biogas plants agriculture & municipal biowaste, Panu Jouhkimo, Coordinator of Eco-Sairila

Circular Economy with focus on municipal and housing aspects

12:10 - 12:25 Policy instruments of the separate waste collection in transition to efficient waste management and circular economy, Sari Piippo, Senior Research Scientist, Finnish Environment Institute

12:25 - 12:40 The practice of introducing separate collection in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Anna Smirnova, the head of the direction for promoting the introduction of separate accumulation in the house, Association «RazDelniy Sbor».

12:40 - 13:30 Lunch break

Cata3Pult project will organize and pay the lunch for physical participants

13:30 - 13:45 Climate action plan of City of Lappeenranta, Ilkka Räsänen, Environmental Director, City of Lappeenranta

13:45 – 14:00 Green Leaf year, Kati Korhonen, Project Manager, City of Lappeenranta

14:00 – 14:15 Business potential of bio- and circular economy in the border region - experiences from the BBC1 project, Saija Tilgren, Project Manager, Miksei Mikkeli

14:15 -14:30 Summary of the seminar

14:30-16:00 Site visit to EKJH - South Karelian Waste management centre and Biogas plant

The link for registration is in the red box with text “Ilmoittaudu” below the picture. (Dead Line for registration for onsite participation latest 13.9.2021)

Event is implemented in the frames of
Cross-border cooperation program "Russia - Southeast Finland 2014-2020", which is funded by the European Union, the Federation of Russia and the Republic of Finland.