Hamburg Climate Week
The Hamburg Climate Week is a climate protection information event in Hamburg . It has been held annually at central locations in the Hanseatic city since 2009 and with a total of more than one million visitors (2009–2014) is the largest climate protection communication event in Europe.
aims
Every year, the Hamburg Climate Week draws attention to the urgency, feasibility and long-term profitability of climate protection measures with numerous events . Since the 8th Hamburg Climate Week (2016), the sustainability goals of the United Nations , which have been binding since January 2016, have been the guideline for all activities. In the medium term, climate change also poses a threat to the health and safety of the citizens of Hamburg , to the economic and social structure as well as to the natural spaces and wildlife of the Hanseatic city and its metropolitan region. A particular inner-city problem is the urban climate effect that affects the temperatures within which also increases cities.
The Hamburg Climate Week is an independent initiative from the middle of society and shows, together with numerous partners from business, concrete approaches to how the globally applicable sustainability goals can be implemented in the metropolis of Hamburg together with associations, educational institutions, cultural institutions, start-ups and churches. And Climate Week illustrates what everyone can contribute to a sustainable world and to avoiding the causes of flight based on the 17 sustainability goals of the United Nations , which have been binding worldwide since 2016 . That is why topics such as mobility, climate protection measures, the importance of water and sanitation, extinction of species and education, right up to innovations in technology and infrastructure are at the top of the agenda.
history
The Hamburg Climate Week has been organized by the Klimawoche eV association since 2019, which is represented by the Board of Directors: 1st Chairman: Frank Otto, 2nd Chairman: Alexander Pflüger, Secretary: Stephanie Barrientos, Treasurer: Andreas Schwarz (as of 6/2020) The association is advised by a 20-member advisory board with personalities from business, society and climate research. Members of the advisory board are: Tobias Bandel, Bärbel Dieckmann , Wolfgang Dickhaut, Maximilian Gege, Hartmut Graßl , Dagmar Hotze, Michael Knobloch, Mojib Latif , Gerhard Löwe, Frank Otto , Claudia Schmitt, Frank Schweikert , Michael Stawicki, Christoph Störmer, Christiane Wasle, Corinna Weber and Nick Zippel. The Hamburg Climate Week is a politically and economically independent event.
The Hamburg Climate Week took place for the first time in 2009 in the Europa Passage on Ballindamm and was also the first of the climate weeks initiated globally by the United Nations. In 2012 the Hamburg HafenCity was the venue, in 2013 Climate Week will return to the Europa Passage. The Climate Week has been taking place in different locations since 2015. In 2019 the Hamburg Climate Week took place on the Rathausmarkt.
The 7th Hamburg Climate Week took place from September 13 to 20, 2015 under the motto “Good examples for climate protection” in downtown Hamburg. Venues were the Gänsemarkt Passage, the passage Hamburger Hof , the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , and the two main churches St. Catherines and St. Peter . The patrons are the pupils Felix Finkbeiner , UN ambassador for climate justice and founder of “ Plant-for-the-Planet ” and his Hamburg team colleague Jule Schnakenberg. The Climate Week was supported by the Foundation for the Joint Take-Back System for Batteries .
Prince Albert II was the patron of the 10th Hamburg Climate Week (September 23-30, 2018).
The Hamburg Climate Week took place in 2019 (September 22-29) in dome tents directly in front of the town hall. Guests were u. a. Hamburg's First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD), Environment Senator Jens Kerstan (Greens), Mayor Carola Veit (SPD), climate researcher Hartmut Graßl , pioneer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Germany and climate researcher Mojib Latif , chairman of the German Society of the Club of Rome. Sea rescuer and nature conservation ecologist Carola Rackete reported on a research trip to the North Pole, there was a much- noticed live link to the presentation of the IPCC report to Monaco and the European Researchers' Night under the motto "Future Life". The patron of the 11th Climate Week was the Malizia team with skipper Boris Herrmann , team manager Holly Cova and the head of the team's own education program, Birte Lorenzen.
The German Climate Computing Center provided information on the results of climate research in the Climate Dome on the Rathausmarkt. And around the St. Petri Church, the theme park of the Hamburg Climate Week took place, this time as the Green World Tour Hamburg by the cooperation partner Autarkia. The theme park is a kind of sustainability fair. And all over the city there were dozens of events organized by alliance partners who use Hamburg's Climate Week as a platform.
Part of every Hamburg Climate Week is a free educational program for schoolchildren. The aim is to sensitize children and young people from Hamburg and the surrounding area to the 17 sustainability goals of the United Nations and the resulting pressing societal climate, environmental and social issues as well as social interaction.
Committed actors from society, business and science offer workshops and excursions in the Climate Week educational program, in which schoolchildren and daycare children can develop their own awareness of the issues of environmental, climate protection and sustainable coexistence and can question the existing. The content offered can be easily linked to the Hamburg education plan. Teachers and educators can easily register their groups for the offers online via the Hamburg Climate Week website.
In 2019, the actors offered around 120 workshops, excursions and youth conferences on sustainability topics, in which more than 3000 school students took part. Offer sustainability topics in which more than 3000 students * participated.
Visitor numbers
- 2009: 45 actors, 250,000 visitors
- 2010: 80 actors, 266,000 visitors
- 2011: 167 actors, 350,000 visitors
- 2012: over 100, approx. 250,000 visitors
- 2013: over 60 actors, approx. 150,000 visitors
- 2014: over 50 actors, approx. 160,000 visitors
- 2015: 64 actors
- 2016: 118 actors
Awards
The annual event was recognized by the United Nations' Decade of Education for Sustainable Development as a global education initiative. The United Nations Environment Program describes the Hamburg Climate Week as the largest climate communication event in Europe with a major political signal effect.
Web links
- Official website of the Hamburg Climate Week
- Hamburg Climate Week on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/klimawoche/
- Hamburg Climate Week on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hamburgerklimawoche/
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Third Hamburg Climate Week at UNEP
- ↑ Imprint. In: Hamburg Climate Week. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Advisory Board of Climate Week
- ↑ Climate Week 2009
- ↑ Climate Week 2012
- ↑ Climate Week 2015
- ↑ Climate Week 2018. In: Hamburg Climate Week. Retrieved on August 8, 2020 (German).
- ^ Opening of the 11th Hamburg Climate Week. In: Hamburg Climate Week. September 23, 2019, accessed on June 26, 2020 (German).