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Please find presentations and texts of the speakers in the program below where all available presentations and texts are posted. MONDAY, 8 June 200919:00 - 20:30 | CONFERENCE OPENING: CLIMATE CHANGE - A CULTURAL REVOLUTION? Welcome: Dr. Bernhard Lorentz, President, Stiftung Mercator Prof. Dr. Manfred Fischedick, Vice-President, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Introduction: Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) Keynote: Prof. Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Faculty of Environment University of Waterloo | Presentation, pdf Chair: Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Director, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI) TUESDAY, 9 June 200909:00 - 12:45 | SESSION I: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSFORMATION Global markets face the challenge of having to include the costs of environmental damage and climate protection into their pricing and of having to shift preferences. An over-confidence in markets and a fixation with the paradigm of industrial growth, however, may impede alternative routes of development. How much do measures for prevention and adaptation cost and what would be the price of inaction? When do investments in climate protective measures pay off and how are the expenses and gains distributed between the rich and the poor, the North and the South? Keynote: Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, Deputy Director Potsdam Insitute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC | Presentation, pdf Panel: Dr. David Bresch, Head Sustainability & Emerging Risk Management, Swiss Re | Presentation, pdf Prof. Dr. Jürg Luterbacher, Department of Geography, Justus-Liebig University Gießen Dr. Franz Mauelshagen, Coordinator ClimateCulture, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI) Prof. Dr. Christian Pfister, Department of History, University of Bern | Presentation, pdf | Text, pdf Chair: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cornel Zwierlein, Department of History, Ruhr-University Bochum 13:00 - 14:00 | PRESS CONFERENCE 14:15 - 18:00 | SESSION II: LAST EXIT COPENHAGEN? The Kyoto Protocol will run out in 2012. With it an economic mechanism to foster reduction of CO2 emissions has been implemented. How can this mechanism be evaluated today? Current climate scenarios, as well as an increase of CO2 emissions over the last years, show the need for a new protocol. How can measures be improved? Will the U.S., China, and India be subscribers to a new agreement? Introduction: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf, Chair of the Research Domain “Earth System Analysis”, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Keynote: John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress | Text, pdf Roundtable: John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress Prof. Dr. Frank Biermann, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Text, pdf Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Director General, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, Director, German Development Institute Chair: Michael Werz, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Washington D.C. 18:30 - 20:00 | EVENING DEBATE: A GLOBAL CONTRACT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: BASIS FOR THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION Keynote: Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Deputy Chairman of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) Chair: Dr. Hermann E. Ott, Head Berlin Office, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy 20:00 | RECEPTION hosted by Stiftung Mercator WEDNESDAY, 10 June 2009 09:00 - 12:45 | SESSION III: FROM KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION Why does our knowledge not translate into action? Cognitive awareness and insights never translate directly into new configurations of preferences and behavioural strategies. What are the most beneficial conditions under which a change in mindsets and the development of alternative behaviour patterns may be achieved? And what can be learned by other societies’ successful ways of coping with environmental threats and disasters? Panel: Prof. Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida | Presentation, pdf Prof. Dr. Andreas Ernst, Vice Executive Director, Centre for Environmental Systems Research, University Kassel | Presentation, pdf Prof. Dr. Udo Kuckartz, Institute for Education, Philipps University Marburg | Presentation, pdf Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI) Chair: Prof. Dr. Tobias Debiel, Director, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen 14:15 - 16:00 | SESSION IV: HOW CAN DEMOCRACY COPE WITH THIS CLIMATE STRESS? Technological innovation and political regulation can only be effective if "the people" participate in their various roles as polluters, producers, citizens and voters. Democratic regimes are not well prepared for the level of participation that is required: Can free democratic societies cope with the effects of grave changes in the global climate, or might authoritarian regimes possibly be better placed to enforce the necessary measures? Keynote: Prof. Dr. David Held, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics (LSE) | Text, pdf Panel: Prof. Dr. David Held, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics (LSE) Prof. Dr. Thomas Saretzki, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Department of Political Science, University Lüneburg | Presentation, pdf Chair: Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Director, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI) 16:30 - 17:45 | PANEL DISCUSSION: WHY CULTURE MATTERS - CLIMATE CHANGE IS CULTURAL CHANGE Introduction and Conference Synopsis: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sachs, Project director, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lead author Panel: Prof. Dr. Tobias Debiel, Director, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Director, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI) Dr. Hermann E. Ott, Head Berlin Office, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Michael Werz, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Washington D.C. Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cornel Zwierlein, Department of History, Ruhr-University Bochum | Presentation, pdf Chair: Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI) 18:15 - 20:00 | CONFERENCE CLOSING: ROAD CONDITIONS ON THE TRANSATLANTIC CLIMATE BRIDGE The closing event will highlight and discuss the future of the transatlantic climate bridge and the roadmap beyond Copenhagen. Welcome address: Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Director, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Dr. Bernhard Lorentz, President, Stiftung Mercator Roundtable: William J. Antholis, Managing Director, The Brookings Institution | Text, pdf Prof. Lord Anthony Giddens, Former Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress 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 Chair: Prof. Dr. David Held, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE |