Symposium 2013


Changing the European Debate Dahrendorfer Symposium der Hertie School of Governance Stiftung Mercator & The London School ofEconomics and Political Science in Berlin Akademie der Künste

About the 2013 Dahrendorf Symposium

The Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 ‘Changing the European debate: Focus on Climate Change´ brought into focus various European perspectives on the leading question ‘How to prevent dangerous climate change?’ from a multidimensional lens – economic, politic, legal and social. The symposium took place at the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz in Berlin, on 14 and 15 November 2013.

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2013_Conference Broschure

Please download the Conference Brochure here.

 

 

 

 

Youtube Symposium 2013

Watch all recorded keynote speeches and panel discussions

 

 

Working Groups

Under the joint direction of Helmut K. Anheier, Presiden of the Hertie School of Governance, and Arne Westad, Director of LSE Ideas, five international and interdisciplinary working groups, whose chairs were located at the academic partner institutions, worked over two years on the topics of the next Dahrendorf Symposium.

Working Group 1: Infrastructure and Climate Change

Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin

Climate economists understand that carbon pricing of flows of GHG emissions is not necessarily sufficient to successfully and optimally mitigate climate change. Instead it becomes clear that hysteresis and path dependence in infrastructures but also in institutions require an explicit treatment of stocks, not only flows. This working group wants to focus on options for climate change mitigation in transport, electricity and/or urban infrastructures, and aims to understand how investments policies, regulation and procurement can be supportive elements in a transition to a low-carbon economy in Europe.

These infrastructure policies are necessarily embedded in a broader notion of well-being, quality of life, and co-benefits. Connecting to Dahrendorf groups 2 and 3, the group may explore the opportunity of framing common European infrastructure investments as a positive momentum for a joint European project.

Chair: Felix Creutzig
Members

  • Blanca Fernandez
  • Stéphane Hallegatte
  • Michael Jakob
  • Brigitte Knopf
  • Steffen Lohrey
  • Tiziana Susca
  • Andy Wightman

Dahrendorf Visiting Fellows

  • Frank Goetzke
  • Jan Christoph Goldschmidt
  • James Woodcock

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Working Group 2: Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change

Hertie School of Governance in Berlin
In the uncertain post-Kyoto climate policy arrangement, the role of the EU as a driving force of climate change mitigation efforts seems to be gaining importance. But the common EU climate and energy policy, even though defined on a European level, is driven and to a large extent executed nationally. This raises the questions of scales in multi-level governance systems, as well as the conditions for effective implementation of regional agreements and domestic compliance. Hence the national circumstances are a key factor to agree for a unified EU approach. The researcher in this project shall concentrate specifically on the German-Polish context.

Chairs: Claudia Kemfert and Karten Neuhoff
Members

  • Andrzej Blachowicz
  • Kai-Olaf Lang
  • Zbigniew M. Karaczun
  • Andrzej Kassenberg
  • Kacper Szulecki
  • Kirsten Westphal

Dahrendorf Visiting Fellows

  • Andrzej Ancygier
  • Lidia Puka
  • Anna Serzysko

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Working Group 3: Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change

LSE in London
Climate change raises complex issues of justice and of human rights. Climate change policies have important distributive and social implications not only between countries and regions, but also between generations. What would appropriately designed climate change agreements look like? How valuable is the language of rights in framing such agreements? Prof Conor Gearty will lead this working group and address this and other questions related to the disciplines of environmental law Public Administration and Public Policy.

Chair: Conor Gearty
Members

  • Marcus Hedahl
  • Stephen Humphreys

Dahrendorf Visiting Fellow: Anna Grear

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Working Group 4: Economics and Climate Change

LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in London

The Dahrendorf Economic Working Group aims at identifying a feasible climate policy mix to achieve long-term greenhouse gas reduction targets in Europe. The project will focus on price-based (carbon taxes, subsidies, feed-in-tariffs) and quantity-based (renewable standards, emission permits) instruments and their interaction with additional policy instruments.

Chair: Luca Taschini
Members

  • Paolo Falbo
  • Rüdiger Kiesel
  • Sascha Kollenberg
  • Robert Marschinski
  • Cristian Pelizzari
  • James Rydge
  • Alessandro Tavoni
  • Ya Wen

Dahrendorf Visitin Fellows

  • Carolyn Fischer
  • Frank Jotzo

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Working Group 5: Europe and the World

Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and LSE Ideas in London

The Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 is focusing on the global effects of climate change as challenges to society, governance and technology. But even if it is perhaps the most pressing issue facing humanity as such, we know that climate change is intimately connected to other processes of international transformation in social and political terms. The final panel will look at some of these broader challenges and how they relate to Europe specifically. The relationship between Europe and Asia is one key factor to be looked at. The issue of governance (including trans-national governability) in Europe is another. And a third may be the significance of a European model of social and societal developments for the rest of the world. By focusing on these matters we hope to help broaden the discussion about Europe’s role in the world.

Chairs: Helmut K. Anheier and Arne Westad

Members

  • David Cadier
  • Marie Julie Chenard
  • Martin Frick
  • Stéphanie Novak
  • Claus Offe
  • Alexander Ruser
  • Nico Stehr

Dahrendorf Visiting Fellow: Anne-Marie Le Gloannec

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Dahrendorf Fellows

ForFellows_02 the second Dahrendorf project cycle which culminated in the Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 five Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellowships and a PhD-stipend were awarded for one year. The post-doctoral fellows were recruited in an international competition. They were based at the Hertie School, the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). The Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellows worked with each other and were mentored by Senior Dahrendorf Fellows at their host institutions and across the network. They also benefited from the presence of a number of Dahrendorf Visiting Fellows (academics and practitioners) who were drawn from the worlds of politics and industry in Europe and globally. The work of the Dahrendorf Fellows and research groups were presented at the Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 and in other public fora.

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Publications

Working Group 1: Infrastructure and Climate Change

Working Group 2: Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change

Working Group 3: Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change

Working Group 4: Economics and Climate Change

Working Group 5: Europe and the World

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