Earth4All in Austria: Project Kick-Off and Energy turnaround
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The current report to the Club of Rome “Earth4All: A Survival Guide for Our Planet” has been presented and hotly debated at countless events since its publication in September 2022. In Austria, we presented the report at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022 and have since repeatedly included it in our discussions and events. For the global implementation of the report’s content, it is clear that the content of Earth4All must also be placed in a regional/national context. Therefore, the Club of Rome and the Earth4All initiative, together with local partners, aim to collaborate on a national level as part of a National Engagement Strategy. Austria is currently one of two countries (the second being Kenya) starting as a prototype to discuss and contribute to the implementation of the 5 Turnarounds in the context of a National Engagement Strategy. This allows us to create initial ideas and templates that can be further utilized later.
As part of this project, we begin with this event, and in the first part, we will cover the 5 Turnarounds of the Giant Leap scenario and provide an overview of the Earth4All narrative. What are the core messages and the scientific foundations of the new report to the Club of Rome? For those who have not yet read the book, one statement can already be anticipated: “It is possible – With a new economic model and the fastest economic transition in history, we can create an Earth for all.”
However, we do not want to stop at presenting Earth4All, but directly dive into the work on the Turnarounds in the second part. In this first of five events, we focus on the Energy Turnaround, as there are already highly qualified and comprehensive preliminary works in this area that need to be considered in the sense of the three proposed measures from Earth4All.
In the event, we will address the currently proposed action packages and relevant policies for Austria. These will be briefly presented and discussed with regard to their direct implementation and Earth4All. As in our previous events, we will focus primarily on the question of HOW we can implement these measures as quickly as possible in terms of Austria’s goals for climate neutrality by 2040.
In a nutshell:
50 years after the 1972 report “The Limits to Growth,” the Club of Rome has published the Earth4All report. In it, two scenarios are modeled: “Too little to late” (the current development path) and the “Giant Leap” (achieving a sustainable transformation by 2050). The Earth4All model identifies 5 turnarounds that need to be addressed to achieve the “Giant Leap” scenario.This event kicks off the project and addresses turnaround 5 – Energy.
Program
As part of the Earth4All Austria project we start with this kick-off event. In the first part Sandrine Dixson-Declève and Owen Gaffney present an overview about Earth4All and the 5 turnarounds of the Giant Leap scenario. Together with our international guests we dive into the narrative of Earth4All. What are the narrative and the background in the new report to the Club of Rome?
For those who have not yet read the book, we can say so much: “It is possible – With a new economic model and the fastest economic transition in history, we can create an Earth for all.”
However, we do not want to leave it with the presentation of Earth4All, but work directly with the turnarounds in the second part. As the first of five events, we focus on the energy turnaround, because especially in this area, very qualified and extensive preliminary work already exists, which must be considered in terms of the three in Earth4All proposed policies (see right).
To this end, we will take up in the event the various packages of actions and relevant policies currently presented for Austria. These will be briefly presented and discussed with regard to their direct implementation and context to Earth4All. As in our previous events, we focus primarily on the question “HOW to implement these measures as quickly as possible” in terms of the Austrian goals for climate neutrality in 2040. A systemic way of thinking, as applied in Earth4All, can be very useful for this.
Keynote I:
Christopher Lamport, Acting Head of Department VI/1, BMK on the National Energy and Climate Plan
Keynote II:
Ernest Aigner, Lead Project Coordinator, WU on the APCC Special Report “Climate-Friendly Living”
Keynote III:
Christiane Brunner, Board Member of CEOs FOR FUTURE on the position paper “Energy Transition. Impulses for Decarbonizing the Energy System” by CEOs FOR FUTURE
Keynote IV:
Franz Fehr, Chairman of the UniNEtZ Council on the UniNEtZ Options Report
Keynote V:
Reinhold Lang, University Professor of Plastics Engineering, JKU on the Green Deal in the Austrian government program to the “National Carbon Management Strategy”
Panel Discussion:
The discussion will be held by:
Hildegard Aichberger, Member of the Board of Oekostrom AG
Gertrude Suschko, Member of the Executive
Board Club of Rome – Austrian Chapter
Moderation:
Brigitte Bach, Spokesperson of the Management Board at AIT
Wolfgang Anzengruber, Board Member of CEOs FOR FUTURE
Note: The first part of the event (Project Kick-Off) will be held with our international guests in English!
*up to now only available in German
Venue
Reitersaal of OeKB
Address
Strauchgasse 3,
1010 Wien.
Date
Save the Date! November 22, 2023 from approx. 16:00 to approx. 20:00.
Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for networking.
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