Dialogue Series "Strategic management of climate change in Latin America"
In cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and Sicherheitsforschung.NRW
The dimension and consequences of climate change pose enormous challenges to humanity. Therefore, the world is at a difficult crossroad today, facing an apparent trade-off between an escalation and proliferation of global threats to human security and a return to the path of sustainable development for all. However, the effects of climate change vary around the world. According to the IPCC report, the effects of climate change will increase in Latin America and the Caribbean. Affecting a region that is central to global climate sustainability in terms of biodiversity (including the Amazonas rainforest), renewable energy production, as well as a major producer of agricultural commodities.
Furthermore, Latin America plays a central role as a supplier of strategic raw materials for the emerging new green and technological economy. Moreover, the effects of climate change also have political-economic considerations in a region still considered the most democratic in the global south.
In cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the five-part dialogue series will focus on the consequences of climate change for security and development policy. The aim is to discuss issues, which are important for the countries of the global south as well as for Germany and Europe, with high-ranking experts and to raise awareness of their importance in public discourse.
The online dialog series will address different facets of climate change in Latin America in a total of five Zoom webinars. After an initial introduction to the basic problem areas with their security and development policy aspects, our experts will focus on the following topics: raw materials for the future (e.g. lithium), water as a factor of life and development as well as the strategic protection of the tropical rainforest. The closing event will discuss the impacts of climate change on food security in Latin America and some conclusions on the challenges facing the region in the coming years.
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Past events of this dialogue series
Entwicklungs- und sicherheitspolitische Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Lateinamerika
April 25, 2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. | Online via Zoom
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran
University Hamburg
Dr. Simone Sandholz
Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University
Bernhard Zymla
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Elisabeth Maigler
Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Freedom, Mexiko
Entwicklungs- und sicherheitspolitische Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Lateinamerika
Rohstoffe für die Zukunft
May 23, 2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. | Online via Zoom
Prof. Dr. Günther Maihold
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Dr.-Ing. Sven-Uwe Schulz
Head of the Raw Materials Potential Assessment Division, German Mineral Resources Agency (DERA) at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)
Dr. Christian von Haldenwang
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Rohstoffe für die Zukunft
Wasser als Lebens- und Entwicklungsfaktor
June 27, 2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. | Online via Zoom
Dr. Alexandra Nauditt
Institute for Technology and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Cologne University of Technology
Jens Ochtrop
KfW Entwicklungsbank, Sustainable Urban Development and Water in the Latin America and Caribbean Region
Prof. Dr. Paolo Reggiani
Chair of Water Resources Risk Assessment and Climate Impact Research, University of Siegen
Dr. Ines Dombrowsky
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Wasser als Lebens- und Entwicklungsfaktor
Strategischer Regenwaldschutz: Globale Verantwortung und lokale Wirtschaftsinteressen
October 24, 2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. | Online via Zoom
Prof. Dr. Maria Backhouse
Center for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg
Dr. Stefan Sieber
Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
Dr. forest Christoph Hoffmann, MdB
Stellvertretender Vorsitzender im Ausschuss für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung des deutschen Bundestags
Strategischer Regenwaldschutz
Klimamigration in Lateinamerika. Trends, Auswirkungen und neue Strategien
January 23, 2024 | 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. | Online via Zoom
Dr. Benjamin Schraven
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Dr. Hans-Dieter Holtzmann
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for freedom, Buenos Aires
Dr. Luicy Pedroza
Center for International Studies of El Colegio de México
Klimamigration in Lateinamerika. Trends, Auswirkungen und neue Strategien