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Final conference: 19th/20th April 2007 - Warsaw, Poland
Challenges of Climate Change
– global and local strategies to save the planet
Meeting place: Centrum Prasowe Foksal
(Dom Dziennikarza, ul. Foksal 3/5, 00-366 Warszawa)
Implementation of sustainability strategies depends on citizen’s participation on a European, national and local level. This becomes especially obvious concerning the pressuring problem of climate change, which is going to be the focus of the conference in Warsaw. The topic of sustainability often faces denial and indifference especially in economically weaker states. Other topics seem to be more important. But climate change effects all of us.
Climate Change and Global warming are no longer speculation of a small group of scientists, but inescapable reality. The unheard voices of climate experts found their way into public discourse through several alarming recently published reports. With the report of the International Panel for Climate Change IPCC, a broad political discussion started how to stop climate change and which are reliable strategies to succeed. On the one side, communication of the problems connected with climate change is necessary. On the other hand political strategies and individual change need to be discussed, as well as global and local action to be developed.
What does climate change mean for development in Europe? Which are possible strategies to stop climate change? Which role do renewable energies play and what other aspects of sustainability strategies are useful to deal with the pressuring problem of global climate change?
PROGRAM:
Thursday, 19th April 2007
Morning: Arrival / Registration
Afternoon
Begin of the conference
14:00
Opening
(Ralf Fücks, Heinrich-Boell-Foundation)
Scientific prelude
14:45
Global Change Management (pdf. 5,16 MB)
(Pierre Ibisch, University of Applied Science, Eberswalde)
15:30
The costs of climate change (pdf. 3,75 MB)
(Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
16:15 coffee break
Political strategies
16:30
European Climate Policy – influence capability on EU level (pdf. 1,04 MB)
(Michael Cramer, European Parliament)
 Measures for a climate-friendly transport policy in Europe (pdf. 103 KB)
17:15
Climate and Energy Policy in Poland (pdf. 518 KB, Polish)
translation (pdf. 435 KB, English)
(Andrzej Kassenberg, Institute for Sustainable Devolopment, Warsaw)
18:00
Education for Sustainable Development
(Thomas Schauer, Club of Rome Europe)
EU Strategies and the Role of Education for Sustainable Development (pdf. 169 KB)
18:45
The role of Science in Sustainable Development Policy (pdf. 164 KB)
(Tomasz Zylicz, University of Warsaw)
handout (pdf. 27 KB)
19:30 Dinner
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Friday, 20th April 2007
Morning:
Communication of Climate Change
09:30
Public Communication of Climate Change (pdf. 112 KB)
(Hans Peter Peters, Research Centre Jülich)
handout (pdf. 100 KB)
Energy and global change
10:30
Nuclear Energy – Myth and Reality (pdf. 84 KB)
(Stephen Thomas, Greenwich University)
Greenpeace report on Economics of Nuclear Power
11:30
Chances of Bioenergy for CEE (pdf. 650 KB)
(Michael Seiffert, Institute for Energy and Environment Leipzig)
12:30 lunch
Afternoon
Action for climate change
13:30
Polish Climate Change Campaign (pdf. 3,67 MB)
(Ireneusz Chojnacki, WWF Poland)
14:15
The Energy and Climate Programme of the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation in CEE (pdf. 589 KB)
(Anka Dobslaw, Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Prague)
15:00 coffee break
15:30 presentation of project results
Audrone Alijosiute (ECAT, Lithuania), pdf 105 KB
Stefan Taigner (Center for Environment and
Development, Poland), pdf. 316 KB
Zoltan Marton (FocusEcoCentre, Romania)
Günter Chodzinski (LA 21 Falkensee, Germany), pdf. 26 KB
Vilma Eri (CES, Hungary), pdf. 1,29 MB
Moonika Ani/Irja Alakivi (ELL, Estonia), pdf. 158 KB
Iliyan Iliev (PECSD, Bulgaria), pdf. 297 KB
16:30 FINAL DISCUSSION on communication strategies and actions against climate change and for Sustainable Development in Europe
The conference takes place in cooperation with the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation in Warsaw within the project ‘strategies for a successful communication of sustainability in Europe’,which is funded within the Active-Citizenship programme of the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission.
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