"Meddling is the only way to stay relevant" - Heinrich Böll
to the Washington Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We are a political non-profit organization striving to promote democracy, civil society, equality and a healthy environment internationally. Headquarted in Berlin/Germany, we have 25 offices worldwide and cooperate with more than 200 partners in more than
60 countries.
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Towards a Transatlantic Green New Deal: The Path to a Green Economy that Will Fight Climate Change and Create Quality Jobs
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
2247 Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC 20515
Please join us for a transatlantic dialogue featuring Renate Künast and Jürgen Trittin, Members of German Parliament for Alliance 90/The Greens, and U.S. and United Nations policy experts on strategies to overcome today’s joint economic and environmental crises and create new green job opportunities for workers around the world. Two panels will discuss the findings of a new report: Towards a Transatlantic Green New Deal: Tackling the Climate and Economic Crisis, prepared by the Worldwatch Institute for the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Light lunch will be served.
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New Jobs with Renewable Energies: A European Perspective
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Goethe Institut, 812 Seventh Street NW,Washington DC 2001
Investments into renewable energies are crucial to fight global warming, strengthen energy security and create new jobs. Jürgen Trittin, former German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, will discuss how Germany managed to push aggressively for renewable energies.
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Prospects for Nonproliferation and Disarmament: A European Perspective
Wednesday, June 24, 2009,
1:00 to 2:30 pm
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Jürgen Trittin, Former German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, will discuss issues of non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament from a European and German perspective. He will explore how rules and controls can be strengthened to curtail further proliferation by the 2010 NPT Review Conference, the role of Europe and Germany in approaching disarmament, and in particular, the future of the U.S. nuclear arsenal stationed in Germany.
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