Challenges in Agribusiness
Description
The meeting will be introduced by Prof J.P.M. (Johan) Sanders, and is part 3 of a series of meetings, in which KIVI engineers will give their views on the Energy Report. This Energy Dialogue will be presented to the Minister in autumn 2016.
About The Energy Report:
The Energy Report 2015 provides an integrated vision of the future energy supply in the Netherlands. In drafting the Energy Report, use was made of the advisory report "Rijk zonder CO2, naar een duurzame energievoorziening in 2050 " by the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli).
The Energy Report deals with the longer term: Dutch energy policy after 2023. It is thus the missing link between the 2013 Energy Agreement and the Paris agreements of mid-2015 to finally curb warming. The energy agreement defines how we will achieve 16 per cent sustainably generated energy and substantial energy savings in the short term, until 2023 at the latest. The Paris climate agreements are about reducing CO2 emissions, within Europe to 95 per cent by 2050.
With the Energy Report, the government is inviting citizens, companies, knowledge institutions, other public authorities and civil society organisations to participate in a social dialogue in 2016. In it, everyone can have their say on the desired strategy for shaping our future energy supply in a sustainable way.
About the KIVI TME Energy Dialogue:
TME feels addressed by the minister's call and calls on all KIVI engineers to participate. In 2016, TME is organising a trio of lectures, each highlighting a part of the Energy Report; namely, the approach for energy-intensive industry (I), the change in mobility (II), and the challenges in the agribusiness sector (III), followed by a concluding meeting on the options for organising those changes. After each lecture, TME publishes the introduction and invites KIVI members to respond. Reactions will be included in a roundtable discussion, before summer 2016.
Speaker(s)
Johan Sanders.
Sanders studied molecular biology (University of Amsterdam) and received his PhD from Piet Borst . In 1977, he set up the genetic engineering group within Gistbrocades in Delft so that enzymes in particular could be produced at lower cost. Through protein engineering, many enzymes could also be improved in quality. In 1993, he became Research Director at AVEBE in Foxhol. In 2002, he established a new chair in Wageningen focused on Valorisation of Plant Production Chains. This chair was converted into the full chair: biobased Commodity Chemicals in 2009. In 2014, he transferred to DLO in the position of Innovation Manager at Food and Biobased Research.
Location
Organiser
Engineering, Society & Economics
Name and contact details for information
Department of Technology, Society & Economics