Monday, 05 December 2011
Time: 16:45 - 18:15
Venue: Hex River Room, DEC
Contact: Leane Regan, IIASA:
regan@iiasa.ac.at
+43 2236 807316
and Astrid Schultz, WBGU: aschulz@wbgu.de
+49 171 4620 766

How to achieve a global transformation towards a climate-friendly, sustainable future?
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)

Speakers: 

• Hans Joachim Schellnhuber – Chair WBGU; Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): “The challenges of international climate policy” (pdf, 2.4MB)
• Dirk Messner – Vice Chair WGBU; Director of the German Development Institute (DIE): "A Social Contract for Sustainability" (pdf , 5MB)
• Nebojsa Nakicenovic – Deputy Director, IIASA; Professor, TU Wien and Member of WBGU: “Global energy transformation: decarbonization and efficiency revolution” (pdf 17.3MB)
• Michael Obersteiner – Program Leader, Ecosystems Services and Management, IIASA: “Managing land and natural resources within planetary boundaries”

Speakers will outline the policy options and strategies that will enable a global transformation towards a climate-friendly sustainable future. WBGU’s new report “World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability” (www.wbgu.de) outlines the urgency of a ‘post-fossil-fuel’ economic strategy and the social and political changes this implies at national and international levels. As key entry points for achieving and sustaining deep emissions cuts, speakers will then outline the potential in energy systems for achieving an energy transformation led by a decarbonization and efficiency revolution (www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/ENE/index.html). The significant interactions between meeting climate and energy objectives and sustainable management of land and natural resources are detailed (www.iiasa.ac.at//Research/ESM/index.html). Science based resource efficiency strategies that exploit the many synergies between environmental and social policies are presented.

Event: IIASA-WBGU (Side Event) - How to achieve a global transformation towards a climate-friendly, sustainable future?
Place: Hex River Room, Durban Exhibition Centre
Date & Time: 5th December 16:45 - 18:15
IIASA Contributors: Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Michael Obersteiner

Event: Launch of the Living Forest Report –REDD+ at a Crossroads
Place: Blue Water Hotel
Date & Time: 27th November 13:30-14:30
IIASA Contributors: Michael Obersteiner, Florian Kraxner and other members of the ESM Program

Event: Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
Host: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Place: Amanzimtoti River Room
Date & Time: 30th November 13:15-14:45
IIASA contributor: Reinhard Mechler (member of the core writing team)

Event: Bridging the Emissions Gap - official handover of the report to COP hosts with ministerial commentary
Host: United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Place: Media Centre (press conference)
Date and Time: Tuesday 6th December, 11:00-11:30
IIASA contributors: Keywan Riahi and Fabian Wagner

03-09 December
Exhibit 129
Contact: Leane Regan, IIASA regan@iiasa.ac.at
+43 2236 807316