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Tuesday, June 9, 2009



SESSION I: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSFORMATION



Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, Deputy Director Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Co-Chair of the Working Group III of the IPCC during his keynote on “A Global Deal for the Climate and the Financial Crisis” in Session I: Political Economy of Transformation.


The Festsaal in the Philharmonie Essen.


A participant joining the discussion.

ROUNDTABLE: EU, USA AND CHINA – TRANSNATIONAL CLIMATE COOPERATION ON THE ROAD TO COPENHAGEN



John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress during the keynote on “The Road to Copenhagen: Restoring American Leadership on Climate Change”.


Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development Institute (DIE) was one of the roundtable participants.


Michael Werz from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at the Georgetown University Washington DC chaired the roundtable amongst others with Prof. Dr. Frank Biermann from the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development Institute (DIE).


Panelist Ingrid Hoven, Assistant Secretary of State and Head of Division in the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).


The complete roundtable.

EVENING DEBATE: A GLOBAL CONTRACT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: BASIS FOR THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION



During the speech of Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer.


Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Deputy Chairman of the German Council for Sustainable Development.


From left to right: Dr. Bernhard Lorentz, President of Stiftung Mercator and Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Director of the KWI with Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer and Dr. Hermann E. Ott, Head of the Berlin Office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.


Reception hosted by Stiftung Mercator


Reception hosted by Stiftung Mercator


Wednesday, June 10, 2009



SESSION III: FROM KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION


Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer from the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI) during his speech "Bridging the Grand Canyon: The Social Psychology of Knowledge and Action".



Prof. Dr. Andreas Ernst, Vice Excutive Director of the Centre for Environmental Systems Research, University Kassel, spoke on "Action Failure, Action Opportunities, and Action Success - A psychological perspective".


SESSION IV: HOW CAN DEMOCRACY COPE WITH THIS CLIMATE STRESS?



Keynote speaker Prof. Dr. David Held, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics, whose keynote was entitled "Democracy, Governance and the Climate Change: Apocalypse soon or Reform". On his left Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie (KWI), chair of Session IV. 


PANEL DISCUSSION: WHY CULTURE MATTERS - CLIMATE CHANGE IS CULTURAL CHANGE



During the panel discussion with the the chairs of the previous sessions and panels (from left to right): Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cornel Zwierlein, Department of History, Environmental History, Ruhr-University Bochum, Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, KWI, Michael Werz, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Washington DC, Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer, KWI, Dr. Hermann E. Ott, Head Berlin Office, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sachs, Project Director, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lead author.


A conference participant of "The Great Transformation - Climate Change as Cultural Change".


CONFERENCE CLOSING: ROAD CONDITIONS ON THE TRANSATLANTIC CLIMATE BRIDGE



William J. Antholis, Managing Director of The Brookings Institution, delivered a speech on "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: EU-US cooperation on climate change".


Prof. Lord Anthony Giddens, former director of the Londons School of Economics.


One of the debaters Dr. Urban Rid, Director General for Climate Protection, Environment and Energy, Renewable Energies, International Cooperation, Federal Ministry for Environment.


Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Senior Director for Policy Programs, German Marshall Fund.