Science for Future: On the Path to Carbon Neutrality

To achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, the world’s largest industrialised nations must significantly reduce their carbon emissions. China and Germany have also committed themselves to achieving carbon neutrality in the coming decades. This will require further basic research, technological innovation and appropriate global policy frameworks.

The conference will discuss innovative approaches from both basic research and practical application, and will open up a dialogue on the strategies pursued in Germany and China to achieve carbon neutrality in the two countries. In addition, the conference will provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience among internationally renowned scientists from a range of disciplines.

In 2018, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the Science for Future initiative with the aim of highlighting the important role of basic research for society. The conference entitled On the Path to Carbon Neutrality is the second conference in this series.

Keynote speakers:

• Prof. Dr Benjamin List ML, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
• Prof. Dr Chunli Bai, former President of CAS, Institute of Chemistry, CAS
• Prof. Dr Klaus von Klitzing ML, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Nobel Prize in Physics 1985

Further speakers include:

Impulse Session: The promise of carbon neutrality: Where do we stand with new and old technologies? What does it take to achieve carbon neutrality in China and Germany?

• Prof. Dr Bojie Fu, Member of CAS, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, CAS
• Prof. Dr Veronika Grimm, University of Technology Nuremberg
• Prof. Dr Xinhe Bao, Member of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China
• Prof. Dr Ottmar Edenhofer ML, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Moderation:

• Prof. Dr Harald Fuchs ML, University of Münster
• Prof. Dr Shuhong Yu, Member of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China

Session 1: Basic research – the core of innovation

• Prof. Dr. Susan Trumbore ML, Max‐Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Prof. Dr. Zhiyong Tang, Member of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China

Moderators

• Prof. Dr. Katharina Kohse‐Höinghaus ML, Bielefeld University
• Prof. Dr. Buxing Han, Member of CAS, Institute of Chemistry CAS

Session 2: Innovation, translation, application – promising new technologies

• Prof. Haisheng Chen, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics
• Prof. Dr. Hans‐Martin Henning, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg
• Prof. Dr. Wei Wei, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS
• Prof. Dr. Martin Winter, University of Muenster

Moderation:

• Prof. Dr. Rolf‐Dieter Heuer ML, CERN
• Prof. Dr. Huiming Cheng, Member of CAS, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS

Session 3: Market conditions and policies – the necessity for global cooperation

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Löschel, Ruhr University Bochum
• Prof. Dr. Weiqiang Chen, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS
• Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel, ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
• Prof. Dr. Pu Wang, Institutes of Science and Development, CAS

Moderation:

• Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schmidt ML, RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
• Prof. Dr. Hang Su, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS

ML = Member of the Leopoldina

Kontakt

Dr Saskia Steiger
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Department of International Relations
Tel.: +49 30 203 89 97-432
E-Mail: sff(at)leopoldina.org

Partnerorganisation

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publikation

Berlin Declaration: On the Path to Carbon Neutrality (2024)

Joint Announcement by CAS and the Leopoldina (2023)

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