DRAFT Programme (as of October 8th, 2013) – INTERNAL VERSION
TBC = to be confirmed
13 November 2013
OPEN TO VIP GUESTS AND ALL SPEAKERS
Venue: Projektzentrum Berlin (PZB), Neue Promenade 6, 10178 Berlin
19:00 Dinner with hosts, speakers, and selected guests
Dinner speech
“The strategic role of the European Union in international climate negotiations”
Klaus TÖPFER, founding Director and current Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany; former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) based in Nairobi; former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
introduced by
Bernhard LORENTZ, President and CEO, Stiftung Mercator, Essen and Berlin, Germany
Conference Chair on November 14 and 15
Melinda CRANE, Chief Political Correspondent, Deutsche Welle
14 November 2013
Venue: Plenarsaal, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Berlin from 8:30 a.m. Welcome with coffee and tea
9:00 to 9:30 Conference opening and welcoming remarks
30 minutes Bernhard LORENTZ, President and CEO, Stiftung Mercator, Essen, Germany
Lady Christiane DAHRENDORF
Helmut K. ANHEIER, Dean and Professor of Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany
Craig CALHOUN, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom (UK)
9:30 to 10:30 Keynote speeches
60 minutes Ottmar EDENHOFER, Director, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Chance (MCC); Co-Chair, Working Group III, IPCC; Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), 2 Potsdam and Berlin, Germany
Ernst Ulrich von WEIZSÄCKER, Co-Chair, International Resource Panel (UNEP); Co-President, The Club of Rome, Emmendingen, Germany
Jacqueline McGLADE, Former Executive Director of the European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark (TBC)
10:30 to 11:00 Coffee break
30 minutes
11:00 to 12:30 Panel Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change
90 minutes Chair of this working group and Moderator
Conor GEARTY, Director of LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs and Professor of Human Rights Law, Department of Law, LSE, London, UK
Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellow:
Marcus HEDAHL, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI), London, UK
Introduction Connie HEDEGAARD, Commissioner for Climate Change, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
(previously taped interview)
Opening statement Mary ROBINSON, President, Mary Robinson Foundation, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Participants Anna GREAR, Associate Professor in Law, the University of Waikato, New Zealand
Henry SHUE, Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Politics and International Relations, Merton College, Oxford, UK
Commentator Stephen HUMPHREYS, Senior Lecturer in International Law, Department of Law, LSE, London
followed by Questions & Answers
Lunch break
12:30 to 13:30
13:30 to 14:30 Keynote Speeches
App. 60 minutes Norbert RÖTTGEN, Member of the German Parliament (MP); Former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Berlin, Germany 3 Lord William WALLACE OF SALTAIRE, House of Lords, London, UK (TBC)
14:30 to 16:00 Panel Governance and Climate Change
90 minutes Co-Chair of this WG and welcoming comment
Claudia KEMFERT, Professor and Senior Dahrendorf Fellow, Hertie School; Head, Department of Energy, Transportation, Environment, German Institute of Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Berlin
Co-Chair of this WG and moderator
Karsten NEUHOFF, Professor, Technical University Berlin; Head, Department Climate Policy, DIW, Berlin
Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellow
Kacper SZULECKI, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Participants Rebecca HARMS, MEP, Chairman of the Parliamentarian Group of the Greens/ The Free Alliance, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium (TBC)
Lidia PUKA, Senior Researcher EU Programme, Polish Institute for International Studies (PISM), Warsaw, Poland
Kirsten WESTPHAL, Senior Associate, Department of International Energy Relations and Global Energy Security, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Germany
Commentator Maciej NOWICKI, scientist, former Minister of the Environment, Warsaw, Poland (TBC)
followed by Questions & Answers
16:00 to 16:30 Coffee break
30 minutes
16:30 to 18:00 Panel Infrastructure and Climate Change 90 minutes Chair of this WG and Moderator
Felix CREUTZIG, Principal Investigator of the Land Use, Infrastructures, and Transport group, (MCC), Berlin, Germany
Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellow
Tiziana SUSCA, Hertie School and MCC, Berlin, Germany
Participants Stephane HALLEGATTE, Senior Economist, Worldbank, Washington D.C., USA
Brigitte KNOPF, Deputy Head, Research Domain Sustainable 4 Solutions, Head of the Group Energy Strategies Europe and Germany, PIK, Potsdam, Germany
Reinhard LOSKE, Professor of Politics, Sustainability and Transformation Dynamics, University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany
Commentator Franziska BRANTNER, Member of the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
followed by Questions & Answers
Reception
18:00 to 19:30 with keynote speech by
Günther OETTINGER, Commissioner for Energy Policy, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
About 19:30 End of first conference day
15 November 2013
Venue: Plenarsaal, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Berlin from 8:30 Welcome with coffee and tea
9:00 to 10:30 Panel Economics and Climate Change
90 minutes Chair of this Working Group
Luca TASCHINI, Senior Dahrendorf Fellow and Research Fellow, LSE GRI, London, UK
Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellow
James RYDGE, LSE GRI, London, UK
Moderator Carolyn FISCHER, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future and Associate Director for the Center for Climate and Electricity Policy, Washington D.C., USA
Participants Frank JOTZO, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Climate Economics & Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Susanne NIES, Head of Policy, Eurelectric, London, UK 5 Alessandro VITELLI, Editor, Energy markets Desk, Bloomberg, London, UK
Commentator Peter ZAPFEL, Head of Policy Coordination, Directorate-General CLIMA, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
followed by Questions & Answers
10:30 to 11:00 Coffee break
30 minutes
11:00 to 12:30 Roundtable Europe and the world
90 minutes Chairs of the WG are Helmut K. ANHEIER and Arne WESTAD
Introduction Helmut K. ANHEIER, Dean and Professor of Sociology, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Moderator Mark DAWSON, Professor of European Law and Governance, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellow: Alexander RUSER, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Participants Senem Aydin DÜZGIT, Assistant Professor for International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Anne Marie LE GLOANNEC, Research Director and Professor, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, France
Rudolf STICHWEH, Dahrendorf Professor, University of Bonn, Germany; Visiting Professor, University of Luzern, Switzerland
Commentator Edward LUCAS, International section editor, The economist, London, UK (TBC)
Conclusions Arne WESTAD, Director LSE IDEAS and Professor of International History, LSE, London, UK
12:30 to 13:30 Concluding Keynote speeches
Speakers Senator Mario MONTI, Professor, Senato della Repubblica, Rome; Former Prime Minister of Italy; Former European Commissioner and President of Bocconi University, Milan, Italy (TBC)
Cem ÖZDEMIR, National Chairman of the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Berlin, Germany
13:30 to 13:45 Concluding remarks Helmut K. ANHEIER, Dean and Professor of Sociology, Hertie 6 School, Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang ROHE, Director Centre for Science and Humanities, Stiftung Mercator, Essen, Germany
Arne WESTAD, Director LSE IDEAS and Professor of International History, LSE, London. UK
Lunch snack
13:45 to 14:45
About 14:45 End of conference