Dutch Waste Management

In 2013 I initiated Dutch Waste Management. Dutch Waste Management is a cutting-edge platform of specialists and companies for Waste Water and Energy innovations based on developed icon projects in the Netherlands in the last decades.

Since the start of this platform, several innovative projects have been developed, such as:
- Smart Energy Grid based on biomass

- Compliance Model Waste Water and Energy regions

- Energy Potential Mapping

- Waste separation concepts

- Anaerobic Digestion

- Worldbank tender / IFC ISWM model Ukraine city

- Expression of interest EU tender Efficiency Food chain together with EU, Indian and Chinese partners

In this period we have been working with partners in Ukraine, Greece, Bulgaria, USA, Thailand and India (EU-India SAHYOG project). Other countries where I've been worked the last years, such as Turkey, Canada, Russia, Poland and China will follow the coming year.

Innovatiegroep Oostland presenteert biovergister

Webinar Climate Finance Biomass

The increased use of biomass to generate energy is one of the main ways to reduce the emissions of CO2 and mitigate climate change. It is therefore a cornerstone of climate change policies in many countries and also in the international debate on climate change. At this moment – February 2013 – the market may look bleak to many: prices on the international carbon markets have collapsed and it is hard to predict when they will recover.

At this moment – February 2013 – the market may look bleak to many: prices on the international carbon markets have collapsed and it is hard to predict when they will recover.
Adriaan Korthuis, founder/director at Climate Focus, has provide today insights in a webinar that was organised by NL Agency ; the opportunities and the limits of climate finance for biomass projects.
Issues addressed in the webinar were:
- The status of international climate change negotiations: from Durban and Doha to a new climate change agreement;
- The possibilities of carbon credits: CDM, voluntary markets, new carbon markets;
- Other types of project support: trust funds, sustainable energy funds, climate change funds;
- Biomass certification.

Canada

Last half year I supported Orgaworld Canada on business development in the Industrial Commercial Institution (ICI) waste market. Therefore I'd made market analyses and visit a lot of companies of the Food Chain in Ontario / Canada together with marketing manager Travis Woollings.
We also visited with representatives of Weston Food and Loblaw Orgaworld Greenmills in Amsterdam and explained the working of this modern bio refinery plant.

University Masterclasses Ukraine

Last year I educated three Masterclasses 'Waste as an energy source':

Lutsk State Technical University: 23 April
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute: 25 April
Odessa National Polytechnic University: 27 April

The Master Class Sustainable energy for Ukraine organized by Saxion University (professor Johan Wempe) and Netherlands Ukrainian Sustainable Energy Platform (NUSEP). 
Between April and June the participants worked in teams on an assignment. 
Each team of five students had to present a business case. From the moment of matchmaking with my students till the final presentations they were very enthusiastic about the waste theme.
Recently I'd get a reaction of one the students that he wants to be graduated on my theme!

Trade mission Warsaw

Poland is being the only country that seems immune to the economic meltdown on our continent. As the Eurozone’s economies declined by 4,3% in 2009, Poland grew by 1,6%. Growth peaked to more than 4% last year. Even next year the prognosis is 3,5%. And with only two borders to cross, it is no wonder that Dutch companies are increasingly discovering the vast opportunities this 40 million people market provides. At present more than 1.500 Dutch enterprises, large and small, are active in Poland – taking the Netherlands to the top 10 of investors in Poland. 
I joined a successful trade mission 22-24 May 2012 together with Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Minister for Infrastructure and the Environment. Together with business relatives of Tebodin Poland and Imtech Poland I visited a meet and greet reception with the minister.

Holland Turkey Business Forum: 400 years diplomatic relations

PwC, ING, Agentschap NL en Fenedex met hun partners organiseren op 17 april in de Passenger terminal in Amsterdam een Business Forum over de 400 jaar diplomatieke relatie tussen Nederland en Turkije.

Het seminar is ter ere van het bezoek van President Gül aan Nederland van 17 t/m 19 april 2012. Het doel van het seminar is om de bilaterale economische relatie tussen Nederland en Turkije te versterken en te intensiveren. President Gül woont samen met een delegatie van ministers en CEO’s uit Turkije het seminar bij. Van Nederlandse zijde zijn Prins Willem-Alexander en Prinses Maxima aanwezig.

's-Morgens neem ik namens Orgaworld ook deel aan het matchmakingsprogramma. Kijk voor meer informatie op: http://www.hollandturkey.com/