Lecture series "Education for Climate Protection"

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Harald Lesch is Professor of Astrophysics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Professor of Philosophy at the "Hochschule für Philosophie" in Munich and a science journalist. Since 2014, Harald Lesch has been involved in the advisory board of the "Heraeus Bildungsstiftung", and since October 2015 he has been a member of the "Bayerischer Klimarat". His lecture will be the opening shot and one of the many highlights of this series of lectures at the same time!

Dr. Michael Kopatz is an environmental scientist and project manager at the "Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie". He advocates to influence policies to create climate-protective structures instead of limiting oneself to changing personal behaviors.

Prof. Dr. Volker Quaschning is an engineering scientist and professor for regenerative energy systems at the "Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW)" in Berlin. He is one of the top experts in Germany on renewable energy as well as the energy transition and is also a founding member of "Scientists for Future".

Good science education prepares students for their role as citizens. But with the increasing importance of social media and their problematic side effects, how can they succeed in classifying scientific statements and testing their reliability?
In his lecture, Dietmar Höttecke, Professor of Physics Didactics at the "Universität Hamburg" and a member of the board of the "Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik", offers an answer to this question in order to derive didactic implications for school lessons and successful science communication.

How much energy does our modern lifestyle require? Can we cover it from renewable sources? What possibilities are available for generating energy, and how great is its potential? We all need to understand the field of energy in order to have a voice in one of the most important social issues. So that we can decide together how much energy we want to consume in the future and where the energy should come from.

Uta Hauck-Thum is a professor of elementary school pedagogy and didactics at LMU in Munich. She teaches and does research at the Unilernhaus, an elementary school where children, students, and teachers work together to develop projects in the context of cultural sustainability. Micha Pallesche is principal of the multiple award-winning "Ernst-Reuter-Gemeinschaftsschule" in Karlsruhe. There the education for sustainable development lies at the core of the school's transformation.

In dialogue, they want to encourage rethinking teaching and learning processes in the context of cultural sustainability in order to prepare children and young people for current and future challenges.

Edeltraud Leibrock is a partner at Publicis Sapient and a former board member of KfW banking group. In her presentation, she explores the question of whether and how finance and the capital market can contribute to a sustainable economy.Our economy is based on the expectation of future growth; money and money creation are a measure for a bet on a better future. Without this expectation, the economy would collapse and along with it the social structures. The narrative of our time is: "everything is getting better and better". But is that even possible without destroying our livelihoods?

Luisa Neubauer, born 1996 in Hamburg, is one of the co-organizers of Fridays for Future is the most prominent representative of the German movement in public media. In 2018, she met the Swedish student Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Change Conference and then started the movement in Germany together with other activists. Since then, Luisa Neubauer has met various leaders, participated in the World Climate Conference in Madrid and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Details of her presentation will follow soon!

Julia Pongratz is a German climate researcher and holds the chair of Geography and land use systems at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She also conducts research at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and is involved in IPCC reports. In her presentation, she pursues both the rise of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and the Corona pandemic. Finally she discusses the chances and risks of negative emission technologies for a path to the 2-degree goal.

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert heads the Energy, Transport, Environment Department at the "Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung" DIW Berlin. Her presentation will focus on how exactly the corona crisis can be used as an opportunity to restart a carbon-neutral economy.

How do we actually know that the earth's temperature is increasing and that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for it? No complex climate model is needed to answer this question. Elementary physics taught in school is sufficient.
Bernhard Mayer holds the chair of experimental meteorology at LMU München and leads the remote sensing and radiative transfer research group. In his research, he studies radiative transfer through the Earth's atmosphere experimentally and with complex models

Thomas Birner is Professor of theoretical meteorology at the faculty of physics of the LMU. His group focuses on questions of atmospheric and climate dynamics. In his talk, Prof. Birner will give an overview of the general atmospheric circulation (including the jet streams) and its changes in a changing climate.