VHS invites you: Livestream of the World Climate Summit in Madrid
Wednesday, 11 December, 7 p.m., TIETZ, course room 4.07
Under the title "Last resort for the climate? Behind the Scenes of the World Climate Summit", the Chemnitz Adult Education Centre invites you to a livestream broadcast on Wednesday, 11 December 2019, from 7 to 9 pm. This will take place in course room 4.07 in the TIETZ. Admission is free. Two environmental experts will comment on the progress of the World Climate Summit in Madrid and give their assessment of the situation. The speakers of the evening are: Dr Renate Treffeisen, environmental engineer and head of the "Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise" and climate scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Dr Klaus Grosfeld, geophysicist and managing director of REKLIM - Helmholtz Association for Regional Climate Change.
The livestream will be broadcast from another adult education centre in Germany and is part of the German Adult Education Association's "Smart Democracy" project. Attendees will submit their questions to the experts via an online platform.
Background: The Climate Change Conference (COP) will take place in Madrid from 2 to 13 December 2019. The aim of the conference is to promote climate protection worldwide and offer poorer countries support in adapting to global warming and in the fight against climate change. At the end of 2015, the global community agreed in Paris to limit global warming to well below 2°C (preferably 1.5°C). All countries must take ambitious steps to achieve this. However, there is a gap between the countries' climate targets and the measures actually required. This means that even if the signatory countries implement all the planned climate protection measures, this would not be enough to limit the temperature rise to 2°C - and certainly not to 1.5°C. The goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference would therefore be missed.