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14th Annual Conference in London, 20th October 2009 |
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Need for co-operation Speakers voice unanimity on the requirement for a greater cohesion among academic disciplines and across borders to pool forces in an efficient international assault on the factors behind climate change. |
Andrew Ladds, Isabel Dedring and David Marsh |
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Prof. John Beddington, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government |
Unprecedented demand “We ignore at our peril the implications for climate change of demography and ensuring increases in demand for food, water and energy. The world’s urban population will reach 6bn by 2030 - generating an unprecedented increase in demand for natural resources. Governments, industry and academic communities must work very closely together to find practical solutions.” Download speech |
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Dr. Walter Mönig, Director for European Affairs, Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
Enduring vision needed “Private industry needs a stable framework to invest in low carbon solutions. In the 1980s we had environmentalism, but global warming still accelerated. This time we need a vision that will hold for a much longer time. This means not only more wind and solar energy and an extension of nuclear plants but also more energy efficiency and a lowering of the entire energy intensity of the economy.” Download speech |
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Myriad challenges “The myriad challenges associated with climate change pose a particular task for German-British exchanges, in view of the two countries' key economic positions in Europe and the similarity of our political approaches and structures. These challenges are all the more topical at a time when we are recalling, partly using the archives, the trials of German unification 20 years ago.” |
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Germany's capability "I am very pleased to be opening the 14th annual conference of the German-British Forum, in which the German embassy is proud to have played an important part both in conception and in implementation. The outcome of the German elections has underlined our country's firm desire and capability to a full part in combating climate change on the world-wide stage." |
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