Dr. Oliver Geden will talk about the disillusioned situation after the contract at the COP21 in Paris in 2015, as instead of the urgently needed reductions in emissions, the number of climate-damaging emissions continues to rise, which endangers the agreed climate target of 1.5°C. However, as Dr. Geden will point out, the Paris Agreement included another target, namely greenhouse gas neutrality. In his lecture, Dr. Geden will compare this target to the 1.5°C goal and emphasize the strength of greenhouse gas neutrality, as it is easier to evaluate and to communicate and therefore better to implement.
The speaker, Dr. Oliver Geden, is head of the research group EU/Europe at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and works primarily on EU energy and climate politics and Climate engineering and is a co-author of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC.
[Source: Chair of Microeconomics with a Focus on Energy and Resource Economics]
