Green Economy Business Summit 2022 opens up the green economy from a business perspective. At the event there will be discussions on how to ensure adequate economic well-being while reducing the burden on the environment. The Green Economy Business Summit, aimed at corporate management and stakeholders and organized for the first time, will be held on Wednesday, 8 June 2022 at Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre.
Summit Programme
Hall 3D
08:30–09:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09:00–09:10 OPENING WORDS
Mika Aalto, Director General, Chemical Industry Federation of Finland
9:10–9:30 KEYNOTE
CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY – A SUSTAINABLE SOURCE OF GROWTH
Jyrki Katainen, President, Sitra
9:30–9:50 KEYNOTE
CHEMICALS INDUSTRY, GREEN TRANSITION AND RESILIENCE FOR THE EU ECONOMY
Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Industry and Internal Market (Video presentation)
Kristin Schreiber, Director at the European Commission who leads the Directorate Ecosystems: Chemicals, Food, Retail, Health in DG GROW, the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (Answers questions)
9:50–10:40 PANEL DISCUSSION
HOW TO REACH SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE NEUTRALITY AT COMPANY LEVEL
Salla Roni-Poranen, Managing Director, Borealis Polymers Ltd
Jussi Manninen, Executive Vice President, Carbon Neutral Solutions, VTT
Jonathan Hague, HomeCare R&D Head of Clean Future, Science & Technology Unilever
Ilkka Hämälä, President and CEO, Metsä Group
Moderator: Katri Makkonen, Journalist
10:40–10:50 CLOSING REMARKS
Maarit Lindström, Chief Economist/ Director, Finnish Forest Industries
11:00–12:00 COFFEE AND NETWORKING
12:00 CLOSING THE EVENT
The Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre organises the event in co-operation with operators within the industry; the ChemBio Finland event with Finnish Chemical Societies, Finnish Bioindustries FIB and The Chemical Industry Federation of Finland and the PulPaper event with Finnish Forest Products Engineers’ Association.
