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Home - 1 October 2020 - Online Conference - 10.45 AM to 5.15 PM

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Our planet is heading for a climate collapse. Peace, freedom and prosperity in the world will in future depend on whether we respect our ecological limits.

To do so, we need to fundamentally change our way of life. But how can we achieve an ecological transformation that is also socially just? What approaches are already successful today – in Germany, in Europe, in other parts of the world? Can we even achieve a just global balance?

We discussed these questions on 1 October 2020 at the Global Green Deals Forum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), the Climate Alliance Germany and the Olof Palme International Center.

Speaking @ Global Green Deals:

Karin Wallensteen

Nnimmo Bassey

Sharan Burrow

→ the speakers of the GGD

Program

10:15

On the piano: Nicholas Bamberger

10:45

Welcome and short introduction

Kerstin Pettenkofer, Facilitation
Christiane Averbeck, Managing Director Climate-Alliance Germany
Manuela Mattheß, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

11:00 - 11:25

IN FOCUS (Live-Stream)

How to Proceed With Climate Policies After the Corona Pandemic?

Interview with: Patricia Espinosa (Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC)
Followed by a discussion with: Sharan Burrow (General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation; ITUC); Karin Wallensteen (State Secretary to the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven)

11:30 - 12:30

LABS I

No Green Deal without a Just Transition: A Nordic-German cooperation on union perspectives (#debate)
Building people-centred cities - How to create more livable cities (#interactive) (Livestream)
All you need is less: Socially just sufficiency (#interactive)
Gas in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea – Leave It in the Ground! (#debate)

More details can be found here.

12:40 - 13:25

IN FOCUS (Live-Stream)

Europe, take the lead! – How the European Green Deal needs to be implemented now

Discussants: Saori Dubourg (Board Member of BASF SE); Reiner Hoffmann (President of the German Trade Union Confederation); Frans Timmermans (Vice-President of the EU Commission)

13:30 - 14:30

LABS II

Re-Channelling Investment, Shaping Just Structural Change – Sustainable Finance Beyond Divestment (#debate) (Livestream)
Just Transition 4 Climate Justice – Ensuring a Global Energy Trans-formation (#debate)
Arguments for ambitious climate policies (#takepart)
Co-Determining Climate Action – How Employees Can Shape the Transition (#interactive)
Germany's Role in Building a Global Hydrogen Economy (#debate)
Could an Ecocide Law End the Destruction of Nature? (#debate)

More details can be found here.

14:40 - 15:25

IN FOCUS (Live-Stream)

Winning the hearts for a socio-ecological transformation

Diskussants: Ralf Fücks (Chairman of the Center for Liberal Modernity); Kevin Kühnert (Dep. Chairman of SPD and Chairman of the youth organisation "Jusos" ); Luisa Neubauer (Fridays for Future)

15:30 - 16:30

LABS III

Arguments for ambitious climate policies (#takepart)
Get Out of the Trap – Paths to Development and Climate Justice in Africa (#interactive) (Livestream)
Beyond Acceptance - How We Can Shape a Decentral and Democratic Energy Transition (#debate)
A Green Deal for Latin America – Can a Socialecological Transformation Solve the Problems of Latin America? (#debate)
What Really Matters – Integrating Human Rights and Gender Justice into Successful Climate Policy! (#debate)

More details can be found here.

16:30 - 17:00

IN FOCUS (Live-Stream)

A Global Green Deal – How we will Proceed!

Discussants: Nnimmo Bassey (Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF)); Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament);

17:00

Closing

Kerstin Pettenkofer, Facilitation
Alexander Geiger, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

17:15

End of the event