Seminars

Today I didn't even go to the office since I attended seminars.

The big one was an international conference in the Committee of the Regions titled "Adapting for Tomorrow - opportunities and risks of Climate-resilient growth". It was a 9-19 (oh yes, 10h conference) with 5 different sessions from case studies of Mexico and the Netherlands to finance and past experience. There were several speakers; ranging from one with a "small" carbon footprint coming all the way from Indonesia to one archeology and ancient history professor from Uppsala University. It was quite nice to have a varied panel of speakers and I did learn a lot.

I left for a few hours in the middle of the conference to go to the EP for a lunch debate on the future of hydrogen & fuel cell commercialization. Needless to say I learned a lot there, too. Bummer they didn't say in advance (before the three course meal with red and white and the bubbly before) that they had parked hydrogen cars outside on Place Lux which you could take on a test drive. Well, next time! They had actually driven the three cars and the fueling stations around the world in 215 days. Fun to see how this technology develops.