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The new “Summit Lecture” seminar series, to be held twice yearly, aims at discussing in a smaller circle the main theme of the year’s Munich Economic Summit. The 2009 Summit will deal with “Climate and Energy: Right Goals, Wrong Approach”; the corresponding lecture was held three weeks before the Summit, and explored the “Chances for a Global Harmonisation of Climate Policy”.
The podium discussion cast a retrospective glance at the conclusions of the UN summit at Posen and glanced forward to the expectations from the Copenhagen summit, exploring such questions as how the differences between industrialized and emerging economies can be overcome, whether the EU can maintain its self-appointed role as trailblazer in the battle against climate change, or whether the demands being placed on industry ought to be reconsidered in these times of economic crisis. Do environmental technologies offer a real chance to stimulate the economy? How far is the US willing to go on climate issues?
The Summit Lecture was held on 5 May 2009 in the conference room of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Munich Office. A reception was held afterwards.
Discussants on the podium:
Miranda Schreurs
Member of the German Environment Advisory Council to the to the Federal Ministry for the Environment;
Professor for Comparative Political Science; Head of the Environmental Policy Research Center at the Freie Universität Berlin
Janusz Reiter
Ambassador-at-Large for Climate Change, Republic of Poland
Hans-Werner Sinn (Chairman)
Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich;
President, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich
Jürgen Chrobog (Seminar Opening)
Chairman of the Board, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Munich and Berlin
