Event: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future
Event Type
Public Lecture and Discussion
Location/Date
Bonn, 08.06.2015
Organiser
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Stabilizing climate change entails reducing net emissions of carbon dioxide to zero. The new World Bank report “Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future” outlines three principles to guide countries in their efforts to create a zero-carbon future:
(a) planning ahead with an eye on the end goal
(b) going beyond carbon pricing with a policy package that triggers changes in investment patterns, technology, and behaviours
(c) protecting poor people and avoiding concentrated losses.
To prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius will require a transformation of our socio-economic development pathways and demands planning for a zero-carbon-future. This new Report on decarbonization underlines: The solutions exist, and they are affordable – if governments take action today.
Programme
- Welcome
Dirk Messner, Director, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future
Marianne Fay, Chief Economist, Climate Change Group, The World Bank - Commentary
Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven (tbc), Director General “Global Issues – Sector policies and programmes”, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and. Development (BMZ) - Discussion
This lecture is part of the “Klimalog”. With “Klimalog”, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) promotes awareness for interlinkages between climate and development policy and furthers a goal-oriented dialogue between pertinent actors in politics, academia, civil society and the private sector. In the context of “Klimalog,” DIE conducts research on policies towards a decarbonisation of the global economy and towards increasing the climate resilience of societies for a climate-smart and just transformation.
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