2008 PROFESSIONALS November 6 > 9, 2008
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Brussels November 6-9, 2008
Almost 80 weather broadcasters from all over the world were in Brussels at Atomium from November 6 to 9 2008 to attend together with meteorologists, climatologists and researchers several Roundtables and Workshops about the climate situation and the way to provide the public with a better information about it.
 
>|| Green Ride >|| Welcome cocktail at the City Hall of Brussels & Gala Dinner
1 - ROUNDTABLES  
Official opening session of the 5th IWF by Sabine LARUELLE (Ministre de la Politique scientifique), and Michel PETIT (President SMF)
SESSION I - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION     
Solar energies on the finishing line
Hosted by Jean-Charles BEAUBOIS (RTBF, Belgium)
Eric PAS (Delta Lloyd), Meinte VAN DER BRUG (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
The Energy Policy in the walloon Region
Hosted by Marie-Pierre MOULIGNEAU (RTBF, Belgium)
Philippe DELAISSE (Secrétaire général d'Énergie facteur 4.
SESSION II - IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Roundtable 1 - Air Quality and Health
Hosted by Elena CORDONEANU (Realitatea TV, Romania)
Olivier BRASSEUR (IRCEL-CELINE, Belgium), Thorsten FEHR (ESA-ESRIN), Liisa JALKANEN (WMO), Laurence ROÜIL (INERIS - Institut National de l'Environnement industriel et des risques)  
Roundtable 2 - Impacts of weather events and environmental conditions on human health
Hosted by Sabrina JACOBS (RTL-TVI, Belgium)
Antonio GÜELL (CNES - Centre National des Etudes Spatiales, France), Joëlle MEUNIER (Service Public Fédéral/Santé Publique, Belgium), Jean-Claude COHEN (Météo-France)  
Roundtable 3 - Regional Impacts  
Hosted by Jocelyne BLOUIN (Radio Canada)
Philippe MARBAIX (Université catholique de Louvain), Christian TRICOT (Institut Royal Météorologique) 
2 - "MEDIA" WORKSHOPS
SESSION III - WEATHER & THE MEDIA    
"Speed-Trading Workshop" Demo-Workshop by product suppliers and weather services
Hosted by Dominique SCHIBLI (TSR, Switzerland) & Patrick DE BELLEFEUILLE (Meteomedia, Canada)
Societies attending : Activa Multimedia (Spain), Météo-France / Météo France International (France), Meteo Graphics (Germany), MeteoMedia (Switzerland), Weather One (Norway).
Panel-discussion - How weather broadcasters communicate on Climate Change ?
Hosted by Mariana RAIBALDI (France 3 Corse) & Philippe VERDIER (BFM TV, France)
Tanja CEGNAR (European Meteorological Society), Jill PEETERS (VTM, Belgium), Carine RICHARD VAN MAELE (WMO), Paul GROSS (WDIV USA ), Nicholas HANLEY (European Commission, DG Environment)
 
Weather clips of the world
Viewing session hosted by David KOLSKI (RMC-BFM)
A compilation of 50 weather clips from the whole world gave the weathers broadcasters the opportunity to appreciate the presentations from other channels and other countries.