Speakers
 
Opening speeches were held by:

Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs

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Dr h.c. Gernot Erler

Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office

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Dr Dieter Salomon

Lord Mayor of the City of Freiburg

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Keynote Speakers (in alphabetical order):

Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri

Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute, of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2007, India

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

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Panellists (in alphabetical order):

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

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Dipal C. Barua

Founding Managing Director, Grameen Shakti, Laureate of Right Livelihood Award 2007, Bangladesh

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Per Bødker Andersen

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

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Dr Ignacio Campino

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

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

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Carol A. Dumaine

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

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

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Prof Dr Peter Höppe

Director, GeoRisks Research Department, Munich Reinsurance Company

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Prof Dr Dirk Messner

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

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Jennifer Morgan

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

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Michael Müller

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

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Cleo Paskal

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

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Prof Dr Zheng Shiling

Director, Institute of Architecture and Urban Space, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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Hansjörg Strohmeyer

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

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Prof Dr Eicke R. Weber

Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg

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Conference Moderator:

Petra Pinzler

DIE ZEIT

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