The British Council, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture (BMBWK) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) would like to invite you to:

"Zero Carbon City: Reacting to Climate Change"

Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 1030 - 1500

BMBWK, Minoritenplatz 5, 1010 Vienna

Audienzsaal

Introduction

Helga Kromp-Kolb

Institute of Meteorology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna

Climate change: the global and local scale pdf (ca. 2MB)

Christine Seaward

Environmental Futures Manager, Hampshire County Council

Preparing for climate change - a local authority´s Perspective pdf (ca. 280KB)

Helmut Haberl

Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies of Klagenfurt University, Department of Social Ecology

The transition from agrarian to industrial metabolism and implications for climate change: comparing Austria and the UK pdf (ca. 1,5MB)

Buffet

Klaus Radunsky

Federal Environmental Agency

Raising awareness on climate change in cities - added value and risks pdf (ca. 140KB)

Tara Garnett

Food Climate Research Network, Centre for Environmental Strategy

Food and climate change: exploring the food chain's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the options for achieving emission reductions pdf (ca. 400KB)

Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre

Reducing Energy Demand: lifestyle or technology? pdf (ca. 120KB)

This symposium is organised in partnership with the climate research initiative AustroClim. For further information and to register for the symposium please contact ingeborg.schwarzl@boku.ac.at, tel. 01/476545618, www.austroclim.at

After the symposium the British Ambassador John Macgregor would like to invite participants to join him in his Residence for a lecture by the prize-winning architect Rab Bennetts on “Building Design and Environmental Sustainability’.

Those wishing to attend should register, additionally to registering for the symposium itself, by e-mail to partnerships@britishcouncil.at by midday on 6 September. Only registered guests will be admitted to the building for security reasons.

Further Information: www.britishcouncil.org/de/austria-whats-on-zerocarboncity.htm

Das Symposium ist eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung von

BMBWK

BMLFUW

proVision

klima:aktiv

BOKU-Met

AustroClim

Der Eintritt ist frei.