A sustainable future for Saarland!
The state government will develop a sustainability strategy for Saarland in order to set the economic, ecological and social guidelines for state policy and pool expertise in the area of sustainability. The first Saarland Sustainability Conference will take place on July 14, 2016 at the European Academy in Otzenhausen.
Program
July 14, 2016
14:00 Welcome – Reinhold Jost, Saarland Minister for the Environment and Consumer Protection
14:10 Climate change – from scientific knowledge to political action Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, meteorologist and climate researcher at the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University
14:50 How will we live (energetically) in the future? Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Timo Leukefeld, energy expert, keynote speaker, Energy Ambassador of the German Federal Government
15:30 Discussion
16:15 Workshops 1: Innovation, knowledge, education (Dr. A. Kuphal) 2: Financial sustainability (M. Matern) 3: Demography, settlement development (R. Glauben) 4: Climate / resource protection (Dr. H. Petrischak) 5: Maintaining / strengthening the economic and industrial location (C. Lang/ P. Rosar) 6: Mobility (N.N.)
18:00 Panel discussion: Do we need sustainability? The importance for climate, energy and the Saarland Reinhold Jost, Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Timo Leukefeld, Prof. Dr. Jochen Kubiniok (German Council for Sustainability; requested) Moderation: Dr. Jürgen Albers (Saarländischer Rundfunk)