Welcome to the Anthropocene

Discussion event as part of the special exhibition "Welcome to the Anthropocene"

On December 5, 2014, the special exhibition ?Welcome to the Anthropocene - Our Responsibility for the Future of the Earth? started at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. As a special highlight in the accompanying program of this exhibition, the Deutsches Museum, together with the ?Chemistry and Society? working group of the German Chemical Society a discussion event entitled ?Welcome to the Anthropocene?. The discussion event took place on Thursday, July 16, 2015. You can find the program here.

The speakers

 

Dr. Frank D. Drake

Head of Research & Development RWE
Ex-McKinsey consultant (focus: energy supply and chemical industry)

 

Prof. Dr. Gerald H. Haug

Professor of Climate Geology (ETH Zurich)
Max Planck Director for ?Climate geochemistry? at the MPI Mainz
Member of the National Academy of Natural Sciences "Leopoldina"

 

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert

Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin
Head of the "Energy, Transport, Environment" department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin
Author of several books, including "Struggle for Electricity: Myths, Power and Monopolies"

 

Prof. Dr. Jens Kersten

Professor of Public Law and Administrative Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

Author of ?The Anthropocene Concept. Contract - Composition - Conflict "

 

Prof. Dr. Klaus Kümmerer

Professor for sustainable chemistry and Material Resources at Leuphana University Lüneburg
Director of the Institute for sustainable chemistry and environmental chemistry at Leuphana University Lüneburg
Member of the DFG Senate Commission for Water Research

 

Dr. Steffi Ober

Lecturer at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and the Eberswald University for Sustainable Development
Coordinator of the civil society platform Forschungswende.

 

Prof. Dr. Armin Reller

Professor for Resource Strategy at the Institute for physics at the University of Augsburg
Board spokesman for the Environmental Science Center (WZU) at the University of Augsburg
Expert for the topic of sustainable use of natural resources in the resource commission at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA)

 

Dr. Gerd Romanowski

Executive Director, Head of the Science, Technology and Environment Department, Association of the Chemical Industry
Executive Director of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie

 

Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl

Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Chairman of the steering committee in the academy project "Energy Systems of the Future"

 

Prof. Dr. Markus Vogt

Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
Main focus of work: environmental and business ethics as well as questions of the relationship between Christian ethics, modern society and natural science

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