Register now for the Municipal Climate Congress

The Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy Management Baden-Württemberg, the City of Ulm and the Danube Office Ulm/Neu-Ulm cordially jointly host the Municipal Climate Congress on Thursday and Friday, 20th & 21st May 2021.

This time, the Municipal Climate Congress will take place as a virtual event. This also offers interested parties from more distant areas, such as the Danube region, the opportunity to participate in the congress. The districts, cities and municipalities play a key role in climate protection and in adapting to the unavoidable consequences of climate change. The Municipal Climate Congress offers them an ideal platform to learn about new ideas and projects and to disseminate them further.

The Municipal Climate Congress is supported by Priority Area 2 “Energy”, Priority Area 8 “Competitiveness” and Priority Area 10 “Institutional Capacity and Cooperation”.

You can still register until 14th of May 2021. You can access the registration form at https://www.kea-bw.de/kommunaler-klimaschutz/default-1c9ff13143-1

Programme

Please download the programme (EN) here.

Thursday, 20 May 2021

9.30am to 1pm

Virtual side event covering

(Translation into “Business Opportunities in the Danube-Save-Region –
national languages) Focus Climate Protection & Green Economy”
German stakeholders who are already active in South-East Europe, or interested in finding partners, suppliers or cooperation in the Danube-Save-Region with a focus on climate protection / sustainability and the green economy, are being invited to the event by the Ulm Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) and the Danube Office Ulm/Neu-Ulm, alongside representatives from the Danube-Save-Region and the border triangle of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.
This event gives participants the chance to make new contacts, to sound out specific possibilities for cooperation and to identify and exploit potentials, in order to promote promising technologies in and for Europe.

The invitation-only side event being held alongside the Municipal Climate Conference 2021 in Ulm is being organised as part of the Enterprise Europe Network and is supported by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung (BW Foundation). If you are interested in attending, please contact IHK Ulm, Mr Marko Ackermann: or Danube Office Ulm/Neu-Ulm, Ms Frauke Kazda:

from 5.30pm

Market of Possibilities

(no translation) Regional stakeholders introduce themselves and present their current themes and projects. More information to follow.

6pm

“Dress warmly, it’s getting hot!”

(no translation)
Sven Plöger (graduate meteorologist and TV presenter)
Live-stream talk from the Stadthaus Ulm

Friday, 21 May 2021

(Translation into English)

9.30am	Welcome Host Natasha Walker
9.35am	Welcoming address Gunter Czisch, Lord Mayor of Ulm
9.45am	Welcoming address Kata Tüttő, Vice Mayor of Budapest (asked) Additional welcoming address from the Danube Region
9.55am	Welcoming address Christoph Dahl, Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
10am	Municipal climate protection – situation and outlook from the state perspective Environment Minister (tbc), Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector
10.30am	Shaping climate protection together – insights into innovative projects in Vorarlberg communities Gregor Sellner, Energy Institute Vorarlberg/Austria
11am	15 years of the European Energy Award in Baden-Württemberg: success stories and prize-giving 2021 Environment Minister (tbc) and Dr.-Ing. Volker Kienzlen, Managing Director of KEA-BW (Climate Protection and Energy Agency Baden-Württemberg)
12 noon	Break with short presentation from different stakeholders (no translation)
1pm	Activities and current developments at federal level with opportunity for questions Sven Reinhardt, Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
1.20pm	Climate protection activities in Ulm Tim von Winning, Environment and Building Mayor of Ulm
from 2pm to about 5pm	Five parallel forums with keynote speeches and discussions Forum 1: Systematic energy management: the first step on the road to (Translation into climate-neutral administration English) Forum 2: Climate adaptation – it’s up to local authorities! Forum 3: 15th KEA-BW Contracting Conference: achieving climate protection (Translation into targets through energy efficiency English) Forum 4: Sustainable mobility Forum 5: Climate protection communication: moving from knowledge to action