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PROGRAMME
The Limits to Consumption - How are the limits to growth impacting our lifestyle?

PROGRAMME

Note: For the conference we will provide simultaneous interpretation in
German - English and English - German.

  Moderation: Conny Czymoch, Journalist
10:00 – 10:20

WELCOME

Christian Kühn
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
 

Dirk Messner
President of the German Environment Agency
  DRAWING BOUNDARIES: LIMITS TO GROWTH, THE PLANET AND CONSUMPTION (language: English)
10:20 – 10:40 Limits to Growth
Mamphela Ramphele  
Co-President, Club of Rome
10:40 – 11:00 Limits of the Planet
Johan Rockström
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
11:00 – 11:20 Limits of Consumption
Doris Fuchs
Chair in International Relations and Sustainable Development; Speaker Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research (ZIN), University of Münster (WWU)
11:20 – 12:00 INTERACTIVE PLENARY DISCUSSION
 
  • Mamphela Ramphele, Co-President, Club of Rome
  • Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • Doris Fuchs, Chair in International Relations and Sustainable Development; Speaker Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research (ZIN), University of Münster (WWU)
  • Dirk Messner, President of the German Environment Agency
12:15 – 13:15 LUNCH BREAK
  LIVING WITHIN THE LIMITS: HOW DO WE RECOGNISE THE LIMITS OF CONSUMPTION? (language: German)
13:15 – 13:35 Ecological Overshoot: What will be valuable?
Mathis Wackernagel
Co-Founder and President, Global Footprint Network
13:35 – 13:55 Global verallgemeinerbare Konsumgewohnheiten in einer defossilisierten Welt
Monika Dittrich
Resources Expert, ifeu Institute
13:55 – 14:15 Big Points des ressourceneffizienten Konsums: Nur die halbe Wahrheit im CO² Rechner?
Michael Bilharz
Sustainable Consumption Expert, German Environment Agency (UBA)
14:15 – 14:45 COFFEE BREAK
14:45 – 15:45

Plenary Discussion
RENUNCIATION IS RELATIVE: HOW FUNDAMENTALLY "DIFFERENT" DOES LIFE BECOME WITHIN PLANETARY BOUNDARIES?

  • Mathis Wackernagel, Co-Founder and President, Global Footprint Network
  • Monika Dittrich, Resources Expert, ifeu Institute
  • Niko Paech, Environmental Economist, Associate Professor Plural Economics, University of Siegen
  • Frank Trentmann, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and at the Center for Consumer Society Research, University of Helsinki
15:45 Conclusion and Outlook