Invitation to the parliamentary evening
Bonn Climate Change Conference - a Recap
Financing the future for a just climate - from a youth perspective
Tuesday, June 25, 7 pm - Betahaus, Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 23, 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg
The Bonn Climate Change Conference took place from June 3 to 13, 2024. Climate finance was certainly the subject of intensive negotiations. We are inviting you to discuss the outcome with us and to reflect on its consequences for the upcoming negotiations.
In view of the worsening climate crisis and the lack of ambitious climate protection measures, more national and international climate financing is needed overall than is currently being provided.
Responsibility for historical emissions is not taken and there is only talk of climate change but very little action. Yet climate finance is the topic of the current year of climate diplomacy. It will determine whether negotiation agendas are adopted, whether talks make progress, and whether the COP29 climate conference in November will be a success. Climate finance and the associated division between the countries of the Global North and the Global South is a perennial point of contention and at the same time an opportunity to move the negotiations forward.
Right now, climate finance is needed to help mitigate emissions, adapt and repair damage, or compensate for losses - for the disadvantaged in both the Global North and the Global South, such as smallholder farmers, who are finding it increasingly difficult to farm as climate conditions change.
Simultaneously, national understanding of the need for climate financing from Germany and the EU for countries in the Global South is dwindling. International cooperation is under increasing pressure to justify itself and it is becoming more and more difficult to communicate, why it is so important and also in our own interest.
With different perspectives from North and South, young and established civil society, we want to discuss how climate finance can be secured, expanded, and communicated. We warmly invite you to join us and contribute your perspective.
The event will be held in English.
The programme in detail:
18:30 - 19:00 | Arrival and admission |
19:00 - 19:10 | Welcome: Jascha Mähler, Board Member, Forum Fairer Handel +
Lisa Badum, Member of the German Bundestag |
19:10 - 19:25 | Impulses and political demands made by
Marius Wallstein and Stella Eick, Working Group Youth and Climate Foreign Politics
What is the Bonn Climate Change Conference? What happened on climate finance? General take on the climate conference
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19:25 - 19:30 | Talk to your neighbour
What is your opinion on the climate conference and climate financing and youth participation? |
19:30 - 20:10 |
Fish Bowl discussion
Panel: Lisa Badum (The Greens/Alliance 90), Markus Hümpfer Federal MP (Social Democratic Party), Eduardo Mosqueda, Planting Change Foundation and Michelle Benzing (moderation) Empty chairs are alternately occupied by: Activists from Germany and Nicaragua, NGO experts, audience, etc. |
20:10 - 20:25 | Conclusion groups Panelists host a conclusion group. The audience assigns itself to the 3 - 4 conclusion groups distributed around the room. The hosts summarize the discussion with the audience and write down keywords. |
20:25 - 20:30 | Brief look at keywords (see above), then closing words by moderation |
20:30 - 21:30 | Followed by a reception |
