Plan B for the climate?
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Plan B for the climate?
Climate neutrality remains the goal in the fight against climate change. But the necessary steps are repeatedly being slowed down worldwide. Journalist Stephanie Rohde talks to sociologist Jens Beckert and economist Susanne Dröge from the Federal Environment Agency about realism in climate policy and the question: What is Plan B for the climate?
About
For decades, we have known about human-caused global warming and its dangers for the climate. Nevertheless, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.
Politicians are rightly focusing on emission reduction and scientifically based measures to halt climate change. However, the necessary steps are repeatedly hampered by deeply rooted economic, political, and social structures: companies prioritize profits, politicians think in election cycles, and consumers cling to their accustomed lifestyles. The consequence: Our future is being "sold" in favor of short-term benefits, according to sociologist Jens Beckert.
A transformation towards a climate-neutral society seems difficult, if not impossible, within existing economic systems. Should we therefore continue to adhere to climate goals? Or is it time to focus more on adaptation and resilience as part of a more realistic climate policy? And if climate change should really be irreversible - what then is Plan B for our planet?
Join the conversation with journalist Stephanie Rohde Beckert and environmental economist Susanne Dröge of the Federal Environment Agency, hosted by the Körber Foundation.
Join the conversation with journalist Stephanie Rohde, Jens Beckert and environmental economist Susanne Dröge from the Federal Environment Agency, hosted by the Körber Foundation.
Speaker
Jens Beckert has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne since 2005. He has previously taught in Göttingen, New York, Princeton, Paris, and at Harvard University. In 2018, he was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation. Beckert also received the Karl Polanyi Prize of the German Sociological Association for his book Imagined Futures. Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics.
Susanne Dröge has been Head of the Climate Protection and Energy Division at the Federal Environment Agency since 2022. She holds a PhD in economics and has many years of experience in climate policy research and policy advice. Susanne Dröge advises the German government, the German Bundestag, the EU and other international organizations and is a member of various climate policy networks and scientific advisory boards.
Moderation
Stephanie Rohde is a journalist and hosts the morning news program Information am Morgen on Deutschlandfunk, the opinion magazine Politikum on WDR5, and the philosophy magazine Sein und Streit on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. She also hosts the Iran podcast Dige Che Khabar. She studied politics, philosophy and history in Freiburg and Isfahan.
Attendance
Please register here. Registration will open May 7 at 9 am.
- Address Kehrwieder 12, 20457 Hamburg
- Language German
- Price free