What Can Be Done against the Climate Crisis?
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheClear suggestions have been made on how to tackle the climate crises. Food, land use and electricity are among the most critical fields where action is urgently needed. While businesses are starting to understand the need for transformation, the political will to implement concrete measures is lagging behind. Politicians and environmental strategists discuss concrete interventions to counteract the climate crisis.
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Chad FRISCHMANN
Vice President and Research Director, Project Drawdown, San Francisco
| Chad Frischmann is Vice President & Research Director of Project Drawdown. Chad is the lead researcher and principal architect of the methodology and models behind Project Drawdown and the New York Times Bestseller "Drawdown. The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming". It describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. All solutions modeled are already in place, well understood, analyzed based on peer-reviewed science, and are expanding around the world. Chad has a multidisciplinary background in public policy, human rights, sustainable development, and environmental conservation. He taught at the University of Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley. | |
| With a multidisciplinary background in public policy, human rights, sustainable development, and environmental conservation, Chad provides a systems-based approach to research and strategic leadership. Previously, Chad was the Senior Program Officer at The Europaeum, an association of leading European universities; taught at the University of Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley; and worked as a consultant and researcher for numerous organizations, from small grassroots non-profits to UN agencies such as UNESCO and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. | |
| He holds a master's degree in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, a master's degree in Art History from the University of Oxford, and a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs and History from George Washington University. |
Pierre HEILBRONN
Vice-President, Policy and Partnerships, EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
| Pierre Heilbronn is a member of the EBRD Executive Committee leading on the Bank’s economic, policy and reform agenda, including its coordination within country strategies and with European member states and institutions, managing bilateral and multilateral donor partnerships and ensuring an inclusive engagement of the civil society. | |
| Before joining the EBRD in November 2016, he was deputy chief of staff for France’s Minister of Economy and Finance. Before that, he served as the European advisor of the French Prime Minister and acting General Secretary for European Affairs. Earlier in his career, he assisted in the creation of the European External Action Service. As acting head of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for External Relations and Management of Development Aid, he worked on the Neighborhood policy and on the management of EU development aid at the programming cycle. | |
| Pierre Heilbronn started his career in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Department of European cooperation) and the Ministry of Finance. | |
| He graduated from the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris and the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA). He holds a Master of Economics from Cambridge University and a Master of European studies from the College of Europe of Bruges. He also studied in Yale University and Georgetown University. |
Mag. Dr. Jürgen SCHNEIDER
Head, Section IV - Climate, Austrian Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism, Vienna
| 1984-1990 | Diplomstudium Chemie, Universität Wien |
| 1990-1994 | Doktoratsstudium in Biochemie, Universität Wien |
| 1994 | Universitätsassistent, Universität Wien |
| 1994-2002 | Abteilung für Lufthygiene, Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien |
| 2002-2004 | Projektmanager, WHO - Weltgesundheitsorganisation, Bonn |
| 2004-2007 | Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien |
| 2007-2014 | Leitung, Bereich Wirtschaft und Wirkung, Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien |
| 2011-2018 | Prokurist und Mitglied, Leitungsgremium, Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien |
| seit 2018 | Leiter, Sektion Klima, Bundesministerium für Nachhaltigkeit und Tourismus, Wien |
Ali ASLAN
TV Presenter and Journalist, Berlin
| Ali Aslan is a Berlin-based international TV presenter and journalist with over 20 years experience as a talk show host, news anchor, correspondent and moderator. His journalistic career spans three continents and includes work for CNN in Washington DC, ABC News in New York, Channel News Asia in Istanbul and Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin. An experienced TV anchor, Aslan hosted the international talk show 'Quadriga' on DW which reached 200 countries and 90 million viewers each week. Aslan regularly moderates and emcees high-level international conferences and events around the world and has shared the stage with top world leaders and personalities, among others, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau, Bill Clinton, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Sergey Lavrov, Christine Lagarde, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Vicente Fox, Madeleine Albright, King Felipe VI of Spain, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, will.i.am, Jane Goodall and Melinda Gates. Aslan studied International Affairs and Journalism at Columbia University and International Politics at Georgetown University. He is a Fellow of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and a member of the Körber Network Foreign Policy and the Global Diplomacy Lab. Aslan has been named a Young Leader by the BMW Foundation, the American Council on Germany, the Munich Security Conference, the German Marshall Fund, the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Atlantik-Brücke. |
