Session

B Hightech for Sustainability - Collaboration of Science and Industry

B5 Future Megacities Combating Climate Change

got to Session Results

Date: 25/09/2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Hall F.2

Target Audience: International audience from the sciences and applied research, industry, politics and administration

Objectives:

Presentation of the setting and first result of BMBF’s research priority on Future Megacities. Promotion of innovative approaches to climate change research. Networking with parties providing technical and non-technical innovations for combating climate change through urban development.

Format: Presentations followed by discussions
Language: English

The German Federal Government will continue to develop its climate protection policy in a global dialogue and form international partnerships in order to support the realisation and dissemination of promising climate protection measures. It is pursuing an innovation strategy which uses research and the further development of new technologies and innovative services to enable the linkage of climate protection, economic growth and sustainable development. Globally effective potential for energy efficiency and climate protection presents itself especially in those areas where anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are concentrated and where the consequences of climate change will be increasingly felt: in fast growing urban centres, particularly in newly industrialising and developing countries. What obstacles do these cities face in combating climate change? And what contribution do science and research make to overcome these obstacles?

Session Moderation

Müssner, Rainer
BMBF, Ref.723, Germany

Presentations

"News from the EnerKey-project - role of solar warm water heating for energy supply of Tshwane n Gauteng/South Africa."
Eltrop, Ludger
Institut für Energiewirtschaft und rationelle Energieanwendung (IER) Universität Stuttgart, Germany
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Koch-Kraft, Andrea
Projektträger DLR, Germany
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Reducing Vulnerabilities to Climate Change Impacts in Ho Chi Minh City - Adaptation Planning Framework for Building Resilient Urban Environments and Communities in South-East Asia
Schmidt, Michael
Brandenburgische Technische Hochschule, Germany

Session Results

Contribution of research to a competitive and sustainable Europe

• Input of new and often external ideas for the planned development of urban growth centres
• Capacity building through collaborative research

Research priority areas for the foreseeable future

• After analysing issues in the context of climate change and energy  concentrate on other issues that have been neglected so far, e.g. Health issues.
• To concentrate on concrete solutions that have a high potential to be implementted localy.

Other important issues or topics discussed during the session

• Social  consequences of global chhangge for urban growth centres
• Adaptation to climate change
• Issues of life stile  changes and their consequences

Organisation

Dr. Rainer Müssner
BMBF, Ref. 723
Heinemannstr. 2
53175 Bonn
Tel.: (49) 0228/ 57 3250
Fax (49) 0228/ 9957 3250
rainer.muessner@bmbf.bund.de


Dr. Andrea Koch-Kraft
PT-DLR
Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1
53227 Bonn
Tel.: (49) 0228/ 3821 552
Fax: (49) 0228/ 3821 400
andrea.koch-kraft@dlr.de