Challenges for sustainable cities

More than twenty years after the “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, municipalities are playing the key role in implementing the guiding principle of sustainable development. With a focus on 60 sustainability objectives, the city of Freiburg is contributing to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. In order to become an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable community based on a generationally sound economic policy, it is necessary to have a successful interplay amongst the various participants. The University of Freiburg contributes significantly on the local level and cooperates in the Sustainability Center Freiburg with the five Freiburg Fraunhofer institutes.

• What:
  A podium discussion with Dr. Dieter Salomon, mayor of the city of Freiburg, Jörg Thiemann-Linden, „büro thiemann-linden stadt & mobilität“, Monika Zimmermann, Deputy Secretary General ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability; Welcome address: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Rector at the University of Freiburg; Moderation: Stephan Hoch, Perspectives Climate Change
  
  
• When: October 23, 2017, 8:15pm
  
  
• Where:
  Collegiate Building I
  Lecture Hall 1199
  Platz der Universität 3
  79098 Freiburg
  
  
• The event is open to the general public.
  
  
• Host: Colloquium politicum in cooperation with Office of Sustainability Management for the city of Freiburg and the Sustainability Center Freiburg
  
  
• Contact information: Dr. Arndt Michael, Tel.: +49 (0) 761/203-2001
  
  
• The event is free of admission.
  
  
• No registration is required.
  
  
• The event will be held in German.
  
  
• The podium discussion will act as the kick-off to a lecture series by Colloquium politicum in which representatives from politics, science, business and society will engage in a critical discussion about possibilities and challenges for sustainable development as an overall societal responsibility. Further information about the lecture series