Main Programme

Tuesday 26 May 2009
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10:00-11:3 - OPENING CEREMONY: WASTE AND ITS EFFECT ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
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Chairperson: H.E. Ahmed Butti Ahmed, Executive Chairman, Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation

  • Waste in the context of a low-carbon future: linking energy, waste and sustainable development
  • Potential carbon savings of a coherent waste strategy
  • Climate change: embedding waste at the core of sustainability
  • Waste a material resource and energy resource

Keynote Addresses: 

  • HE Dr Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahed, Minister of Environment and Water, United Arab Emirates
  • Mr Fareed Bushehri, Regional Office for West Asia, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • Mr Hassan Makki, Director of Waste Management Dept., Dubai Municipality
  • Mr W Gregory Vogt, Managing Director, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)_________________________________________________________________________________________

11:30-14:00 LUNCH AND VISIT EXHIBITION _________________________________________________________________________________________

14:00-15:30 CONSUMPTION, POPULATION AND CITIES _________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Habiba Al Marashi, Chairperson, Emirates Environmental Group

  • How does the structure of a city relate to waste per capita?
  • Waste management and capacities
  • What are the key issues affecting the broader aspects of recycling in the Middle East?
  • Corporate responsibilities - waste management planning and procedure
  • Facts and figures about consumption and population affecting waste management planning: The Service Provider Perspective toward sustainable approach
  • Maximum Recycling of Material and Energy, Minimum of Landfilling – A Sustainable Solution
  • E-waste

Keynote Addresses:

  • Dr Radhiya Al Hashimi, Director General, Environmental Center for Arab Towns, Dubai Municipality

Speakers:

  • Dr. Sadek Owainati, Engineering Consultant, Founder & Past Chair, The Emirates Green Building Council (Emirates GBC)
  • Mr Eng Ali Hassan Al Suwaidi, Executive Director, Operations, Imdaad (UAE)
  • Håkan Rylander, Managing Director, The Solid Waste Company of Southern Scania (SYSAV) Sweden
  • Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network (BAN)

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16:00 -17:30 LAND USE AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT __________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Mr Raji Maasri, Director General, Mores, Lebanon

  • Current waste management practices and their land use implications for Dubai 2020 and beyond
  • Environmental components of Master Planning 
  • Environmental implications of poor waste management practices
  • Recommended strategies to improve environmental and land use performance related to waste
  • Waste management infrastructure and location of waste facilities
  • Development restrictions related to landfills
  • Environmental Master Planning – Middle East and African experiences
  • The Service Provider Perspective: Key issues and challenges on waste management in the Middle East
  • Incorporating Environmental Sustainability in early stages of project definition
  • Challenges in waste collection and management contracts

Speakers:

  • Jacques R. Chahine, President and CEO, EDESSA
  • Brent Ridgard, Managing Director (Environment & Energy), WSP Middle East
  • J. Bjorn Jakobsen, Business Development Manager, Waste, COWI
  • Dr Neil Kirkpatrick, Head of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Group

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17:30 END OF DAY ONE ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday 27th May 2009
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ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Chairperson: Miriam Kennet, Director, Green Economics Institute

  • What is the impact of economic investments on the environment?
  • How will the increase in production affect waste and pollution into the environment?
  • Urban mining as a global challenge
  • Waste disposal and resource recovery
  • From credit crunch to global issues crunch - or revival?!

Keynote Addresses:

  • Dr Armin Vogel, Managing Director, FAUN Expotec GmbH
  • H.E. Ahmed Butti Ahmed, Executive Chairman, Ports, Customs amd Free Zone Corporation

Speakers:

  • Mr Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Nuaim, President & Chairman, Board of Trustees, The Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI)
  • James Greyson, Senior Sustainability Analyst, Blindspot Economic and Ecological Think-Tank

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11:30-13:00 CONSTRUCTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Nigel Mattravers, Past Chairman, Waste Management Board, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK and Director, Grant Thornton

  • Maximising material savings and carbon benefits
  • Overlapping design and construction considerations
  • Closing the resource loop: using demolition waste in urban regeneration
  • Integrating waste management
  • Building the nation - sustainability
  • Emirates Recycling Plant at Al Lusaily
  • Securing the sustainability of resource efficiency in the Middle East
  • Valuing resource efficiency in the Middle East

Keynote Address:

  • Mr Humaid Al Mualla, Environmental Services Department, Sharjah Municipality

Speakers:

  • Eng. Jaza Al-Enzi, Deputy General Manager for Development & Technical Affairs, Environment Preservation Industrial Company (EPIC)
  • Kelwyn Davies, Waste Manager, Aldar properties PJSC
  • Mr. Syed N. Rizvi, Special Assignments Manager, EHS - TRAKHEES-PCFC Ports, Customs, Freezone Corporation (Dubai World)
  • James Hurley, Head of the Resource Efficiency Group (REG), Hyder Consulting

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13:00-14:00 LUNCH AND EXHIBITION VISIT ___________________________________________________________________________________________

14:00-15:30 INDUSTRIAL & HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Ed Boucaut, Business Unit Leader, AECOM

  • Conceptual design of Ghunan Environmental Centre (Saudi Arabia)
  • Advanced vibrating membrane treatment to recycle waste oil (under low temperature) into intermediate grade lubricant

Speakers:

  • A.M.K. Al-Shahri, General Manager, KEW
  • Daniel M. Cheng, Managing Director, Dunwell Enviro-Tech (Holdings) Ltd
  • George Mohan, Environment, Health and Safety, Emirates Float Glass LLC
  • Ed Boucaut, Business Unit Leader, AECOM
  • Tara Wilcox, Solid Waste Management Sector Leader, AECOM

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16:00-17:30 WASTE TO ENERGY __________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Peter Rossington, Associate Consultant, Waste & Resource Management, WSP Environmental

  • Waste management, greenhouse gas emissions and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) 
  • Where electricity is produced directly through combustion
  • Energy from Waste as part of a wider waste management scheme promoting the 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
  • Resource management: competing for the waste stream
  • Waste to energy: false hope?

Speakers:

  • Ahmed Khaled Mostafa, Technical Specialist / Deal Manager, Carbon Finance Unit (CFU), The World Bank
  • Mr Keith Newman, Technical Director, Averda
  • Bryn Griffiths, Strategic Commissioner Sustainable Environment, Suffolk County Council
  • Wael Hmaidan, Executive Director, IndyAct (Lebanon) and Steering Committee Member, GAIA 
  • Juan Ignacio Unda, Chairman, RG Consulting

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17:30 END OF DAY TWO ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday 28th May 2009 ____________________________________________________________________________________________

09:30-10:45 DOMESTIC WASTE CONTROL ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Eng. Naji Mohammed Saeed AlRadhi, Head of Waste Treatment Section, Dubai Municipality

  • What influences consumer’s decisions and how can sustainable consumption be made normal?
  • How can communities be mobilized to adopt new waste systems and practices?
  • What are the social ecological implications of urbanization and associated waste issues?
  • Analysis hazardous substance by household in Dubai
  • Economical recycling of domestic waste
  • Impact of plastic bags on the environment, It is time to ban them
  • Carbon abatement opportunities in domestic waste
  • Evaluating the impact of economic incentives in domestic waste generation

Keynote Addresses:

  • Mr. Olabode Esan, Solid Waste Management Adviser, Abu Dhabi Municipality
  • Lina Chaaban, EnviroCare Manager, Tadweer Waste Treatment LLC 

Speakers:

  • David Singh, Managing Director, Global Renewables
  • Katherine Hanson, Marketing Director, Envac

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11:15-12:30 REGULATING REFUSE: MUNICIPAL ROLE _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Wolfgang Teubner, Executive Director, ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability)

  • The concept of Dubai municipality in waste management
  • Improving waste management in the Arab countries
  • The importance of creating sufficient scale for an economic and environmental sound waste management infrastructure
  • Establishing a knowledge centre at national level for best practice
  • Benchmarking by service, costs and environment
  • Cost recovery by a municipal waste tax
  • Increasing environmental awareness amongst citizens
  • Managing solid waste and recycling
  • Eco regulation
  • The effects of treated municipal wastewater irrigation on soil and plant characteristics
  • Improving transport systems for waste movement

Keynote Addresses

  • Sheikh Mohamed Bin Jabor Al Thani, Director,  Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture
  • Eng. Hassan Mohamed Makki, Director of Waste Management Dept., Dubai Municipality

Speakers:

  • Herman Huisman, Msc. Senior Expert on Waste Management, SenterNovem, Agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Netherlands)
  • Catherine Workman, Partner, Pinsent Masons LLP _________________________________________________________________________________________

12:30-13:30 LUNCH AND EXHIBITION VISIT ___________________________________________________________________________________________

13:30-14:30 RECYCLING & LANDFILLS ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Mr Reinhard Göschl, Managing Director, Emirates Environmental Technology Co LLC

  • Strategies for diversion from landfilling and optimised management of biodegradable waste (and other recyclables)
  • Composting, anaerobic digestion and their performances, trends and integration
  • MBT for treatment of residuals and its integration to landfilling and energy recovery
  • Practical Experience of Recycling, Composting, Landfilling and Landfill Rehabilitation in the UAE (Sharjah and Al Ain)
  • Case study: Solid Waste Management System and Operations in Beirut: Averda’s experience in Lebanon (1994 – to date)
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Vision for public-private partnerships
  • Interaction between collection, treatment and displosal - technology alone is not the answer
  • Assessment of waste options, a strategic evidence based approach

Speakers:

  • Jeremy Byatt, Director Environment, Bee’ah, The Sharjah Environment Company
  • Mr Walid Shaar, Deputy CEO, Averda Internatinal
  • Dr Darren Perrin MCIWM, BscMRes.PhD, Consulting Group Manager, Enviros Consulting
  • Mark Siddorn, Director - Environmental Waste Management, Tatweer Real Estate & Zoning (TREZ), Tatweer Dubai LLC

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15:00-16:00 ZERO WASTE INACCURACIES AND REALITIES ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Chairperson: Mr Reinhard Göschl, Managing Director, Emirates Environmental Technology Co LLC

  • Zero Waste is the initial goal; but what real objectives are possible in 2009 and beyond?
  • From waste management to material management: the Zero Waste Concept
  • What is the best cost structure to achieve the Zero Waste Target?
  • How can a packaging law - standard in many countries world-wide - affect the Zero Waste Target in UAE?
  • Will tipping fees encourage clean production?
  • Extended producer responsibility
  • Clean production
  • Argentina’s Zero Waste Law “Integral Management of Solid Urban Waste”
  • Sustainable waste management - the Australian approach

Speakers:

  • Beverley Thorpe, Director, Clean Production Action (International)
  • Dr Paul Connett, Joint Professor Emeritus of Environmental Chemistry, St. Lawrence University, Canton; Director, American Environmental Health Science Projects; Joint Founder, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), and Executive Producer, Grass Roots Recycling Network (GRRN)
  • Wael Hmaidan, Executive Director, IndyAct (Lebanon) and Steering Committee Member, GAIA Co-ordinator in the Arab World
  • Andrew Quinn, Senior Waste Consultant, GHD Australia

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17:30 END OF CONFERENCE ____________________________________________________________________________________________

  • *tbc