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The International Energy Efficiency and New Technological Solutions Fair, EGETICA 2008, will be the first fair held in Spain concerning the technological progress applied to sustainability, or in other words, how to make social development compatible with protecting the environment, by fostering new technologies that reduce the consumption of energy and resources. 

It is a subject that is arousing increasing interest in international public opinion and in which energy companies can play a starring role. It is for this reason that this event is sponsored by both the Valencian autonomous government, which is confident of converting it into an internationally renowned fair, and by the biggest Spanish energy companies, including Repsol YPF, whose employees will speak at several conferences and seminars. 

The conferences will address aspects such as the role of regulating renewable energy sources; carbon markets and CO2 capture systems; energy solutions in construction and the public sector and new technological solutions for energy and sustainable mobility, amongst other topics.

Participants 

EGETICA will feature participants from more than fifty companies and will be made up of a total of four halls: the Sustainable Production and Distribution Hall; the New Technologies Hall; the Efficiency in Construction Hall and the Efficiency in Transport and Sustainable Mobility Hall. 

Moreover, it is important to point out that there will be a conference prior to the fair which will feature international experts such as Raejendra Pachauri, president of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2007, and Mario Molina, Nobel Chemistry Prize winner of 1995.

During the launch of the fair at the City of Arts and Sciences, the President of the Valencian autonomous community, Francisco Camps, expressed his hope that it would turn into "the world’s biggest energy fair, energy being a fundamental key issue in understanding the future of Spain and the world in general: globalisation, commitment, technological investment and, in short, energy".

ECOFIRA

This fair will be held at the same time as ECOFIRA, the International Fair for Water, Soil, Air, Waste and associated Technologies and Services, which will this year be held for the eighth time. It will feature a seminar on Nanotechnology, another on Sustainable Acoustics and a Workshop on Good Practices at the end of vehicles’ useful life, organised by the European Commission. They are two complementary and closely linked fairs with the common objective of achieving greater environmental protection for the good of everyone. 

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