Wednesday, November 5

20:00

Benefit Concert given by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (proceeds will
go to the solar energy project “Lighting up Hope and Communities in Rural
Nicaragua”), Concert Hall Freiburg – Rolf Böhme Saal, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1

Thursday, November 6

8:00

Registration

9:45

Welcome addresses:

Dr h.c. Gernot Erler, Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office
Dr Dieter Salomon, Mayor of the City of Freiburg

10:00

Opening speech: Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal Foreign Minister

Key note address:

Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2007, India

Discussion

11:45

Opening of the exhibition "Environment, Conflict and Cooperation” by

Dr h.c. Gernot Erler, Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office

12:15

Lunch Break

Moderation Panel 1 – Panel 4: Petra Pinzler „DIE ZEIT”

14:00

Panel 1: Security Implications of Global Climate Change

Carol A. Dumaine

Deputy Director of Energy and Environmental Security, Department of Energy, United States of America

Prof Dr Peter Höppe
Director, GeoRisks Research Department, Munich Reinsurance Company

Prof Dr Dirk Messner
Director, German Development Institute and Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) to the German Federal Government

Cleo Paskal
Associate Fellow, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, United Kingdom

15:45

Coffee Break

16:15

Panel 2: Climate Change: Challenges for Global Governance

Colin Challen
Member of Parliament, Chairman of All Party Climate Change Group, United Kingdom

Jennifer Morgan
Director of Climate Change Programme, 3rd Generation Environmentalism (E3G), United Kingdom

Michael Müller
Parliamentary State Secretary, German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Hansjörg Strohmeyer
Chief of the Policy Development and Studies Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

18:00

End of programme, day one

Friday, November 7

8:30

Registration

9:00

Key Note addresses:

Ambassador Steffen Smidt
Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Climate Change Issues, Denmark

Discussion

10:00

Panel 3: Technological Responses to Climate Change

Dipal C. Barua
Founding Managing Director, Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh,

Laureate of Right Livelihood Award 2007

Jürgen Hogrefe
Senior Vice President, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG

Dr Ignacio Campino
Representative of the Board of Management for Sustainability and Climate Protection, Deutsche Telekom

Prof Dr Eicke R. Weber
Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg

11:45

Coffee Break

12:00

Panel 4: Municipalities and Climate Change – Responsibility and Opportunity

Per Bødker Andersen
Member of the Executive Committee/ Regional Chair for Europe, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and Lord Mayor of Kolding, Denmark

Dr Muiz Adeyemi Banire
Commissioner for Environment, Lagos State, Nigeria

Dr Dieter Salomon
Mayor of the City of Freiburg

Prof Dr Zheng Shiling
Director, Institute of Architecture and Urban Space, Tongji University,
Shanghai, China

13:45

Conclusions and Closing remarks by
Dr h.c. Gernot Erler, Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office

14:00

Close of conference