Crossroads

Saturday, 4 November 2017

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8:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:00 – 9:50

Opening Plenary: Climate Action and Human Wellbeing at a Crossroads – Historical Transformation or Backlash?

Speakers: Heide Hackmann (ICSU), Ronny Jumeau (Permanent Representative of the Seychelles to the United Nations), Pascale Ehrenfreund (DLR)

Moderators: Dirk Messner (DIE), Nebojsa Nakicenovic (IIASA)

9:50 – 10:40

Plenary 1: Paris Agreement and 2030 Agenda – From Vulnerabilities to Opportunities

Speakers: Ottmar Edenhofer (MCC), Stefan Rahmstorf (PIK), Leena Srivastava (TERI University)

Moderator: Andrew Revkin (ProPublica)

10:40 – 11:10

Coffee Break

11:10 – 12:40

Parallel Sessions A: The Transformation is Happening – Innovations as Drivers for Change and Sustainability

1. Transforming the Urban Landscape – Re-imagining the Future towards Zero Carbon (co-organised by Stiftung Mercator)

Speakers: Ani Dasgupta (WRI Ross Center), Maryke van Staden (ICLEI), Pan Jiahua (CASS), Tina Völker (Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy, State of North Rhine-Westphalia)

Moderator: Sven Egenter (CLEW)

2. Mobility – From Challenges to Transformation

Speakers: Isbrand Ho (BYD Auto Company Limited), Christian Hochfeld (Agora Verkehrswende), Daniel Mittler (Greenpeace), Gerhard Prätorius (VW)

Moderator: Maja Göpel (WBGU)

3. Financing the Transformation – Sharing Global Responsibility

Speakers: Ottmar Edenhofer (MCC), Stephany Griffith-Jones (Columbia University), Inge Kaul (Hertie School of Governance), Heino von Meyer (OECD)

Moderator: Ulrich Volz (SOAS University of London & DIE)

12:40 – 13:40

Lunch Break

13:40 – 14:40

Plenary 2: Visions for a Sustainable Future

Speakers: Pascale Ehrenfreund (DLR), Ottmar Ette (University of Potsdam), Stéphane Hallegate (World Bank), Johan Rockström (SRC), Youba Sokona (The South Centre)

Moderator: Andrew Revkin (ProPublica)

14:45 – 14:55

Transition Break

14:55 – 16:25

Parallel Sessions B: Scaling up the Transformation
– Key Sectors to Zero Emissions

4. Energy System Transformation Drivers

Speakers: Fatima Denton (UNECA), Carol Dumaine (SAIS), Dolf Gielen (IRENA), Christine Lins (REN21), Keywan Riahi (IIASA)

Moderator: Tareq Emtairah (UNIDO)

5. Feeding Everyone and the Next Generations – Sustaining People and the Planet

Speakers: Pradeep Monga (UNCCD), Katherine Richardson (University of Copenhagen), Jonathan Mockshell (DIE), Herbert Lust (CI)

Moderator: Michael Obersteiner (IIASA)

6. Building Transformative Networks

Speakers: Christoph Beier (GIZ), Raimund Bleischwitz (UCL), Heide Hackmann (ICSU), Cheikh Mbow (START International), Martin Visbeck (Geomar)

Moderator: Michael Hoch (University of Bonn)

16:25 – 16:55

Coffee Break

16:55 – 17:55

Plenary 3: The Digital Revolution for Sustainability

Speakers: Birgit Klesper (Deutsche Telekom), Ina Schieferdecker (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment), Björn Stigson (former WBCSD President)

Moderation: Andrew Revkin (ProPublica)

19:00

Conference Dinner

Performance by Tone Bjordam (visual artist) and Marten Scheffer (University of Wageningen)

Sunday, 5 November 2017

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08:30

Registration and Welcome Coffee

9:00 – 9:20

Welcome and Introduction by the Conference Chairs

Speakers: Reinhard Limbach (Mayor of Bonn), Dirk Messner (DIE), Nebojsa Nakicenovic (IIASA)

9:20 – 10:20

Plenary 4: Multilateralism at a Crossroads – What is at Stake?

Speakers: Paula Caballero (WRI), Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town), Jan Aart Scholte (University of Gothenburg), Klaus Töpfer (former Executive Director of UNEP), Olai Uludong (Permanent Representative of Palau to the United Nations)

Moderator: Andrew Revkin (ProPublica)

10:20 – 10:50

Impulse: American Investment in Sustainable European Problem Solutions

Speakers: Steven Fibster Fine, Robert Brattice Kravlock (both United States Environmental Protection Agency)

10:50 – 11:10

Coffee Break

11:10 – 12:40

Parallel Sessions C: Key Challenges for the Transformation Towards Sustainability

7. Pluralism of World Order Concepts – Reservoir of Cooperation or Amplifier of Conflict? (co-organised by Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research KHK/GCR21)

Speakers: Thomas Hale (Oxford University), Siddharth Mallavarapu (South Asian University), Janos Pasztor (C2G2), Jasdeep Randhawa (Global Diplomacy Lab)

Moderator: Sigrid Quack (KHK/GCR21)

8. The Challenge of Poverty and Rising Inequalities – Threat to Peace, Human Wellbeing, Sustainability and SDGs

Speakers: Meagan Fallone (CEO Barefoot College International), Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University), Jacob Rhyner (UNU-EHS), Leena Srivastava (TERI University)

Moderator: Imme Scholz (DIE)

9. Stories and Narratives – Journalism in Times of Transformation

Speakers: Sven Egenter (CLEW), Andrew Revkin (ProPublica), Maren Urner (Perspective Daily), Qing Wang (Caixin Globus)

Moderator: Nick Nuttall (UNFCCC)

12:40 – 13:40

Lunch Break

13:40 – 14:40

Plenary 5: Creative Arts for the Transformation – The Role of Culture and the Arts

Speakers: Tone Bjordam (visual artist), Adrienne Goehler (ZNE!), A.G. Saño (climate activist and artist), Dirk Wilutzky (film producer and Oscar winner)

Moderator: Andrew Revkin (ProPublica)

14:40 – 15:10

Coffee Break

15:10 – 16:10

Plenary 6: Further and Faster – Strategies and Enabling Conditions for an Accelerated Transformation

Speakers: Leilani Farha (UN Special Rapporteur), John E. Morton (Stiftung Mercator, Senior Fellow at HHL Leipzig School of Management), Dennis Snower (IfW Kiel)

Moderator: Andrew Revkin (ProPublica)

16:10-17:00

Closing Plenary: Establishing a Culture of Global Cooperation – Together We Can Achieve the Transformation!

Speakers: Ingrid Hoven (BMZ), Achim Steiner (UNDP)

Moderators: Dirk Messner (DIE), Nebojsa Nakicenovic (IIASA)

17:00

End of the Conference

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