Climate Policy is not Rocket Science. It is much more difficult. | Franz Baumann | TEDxMannheim скачать в хорошем качестве

Climate Policy is not Rocket Science. It is much more difficult. | Franz Baumann | TEDxMannheim

Global warming isn’t like other problems or conflicts, it is absolute and inescapable. Due to our increasing productivity and wealth energy consumption exploded in the last century. The temperature on your planet rises as well. Our wish to live a highly mobile and energy intense life-style is at the expense of the already fragile parts of society and future generation. Franz Baumann deeply encourages us to tackle the climate change and he agrees with German chancellor Angela Merkel, that Climate Change is the biggest challenge of the 21th century. For him it is obvious, that this challenge is an extremely complicated one. Bringing change is also a multidisciplinary, political and social task, but it is not an impossible task. Mr. Baumann provides examples, which included a higher tax on the production of carbon dioxide, but also the duty to improve the status quo by removing unsustainable technologies and habits of humanity. Franz Baumann spent most of his professional life as a United Nations official. His last assignment was Special Adviser on Environment and Peace Operations with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. He left the United Nations at the end of 2015 and joined New York University in 2017 as a visiting research professor. He is a Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Franz started his career at the European Parliament in Luxembourg in 1976 before transferring to the European Commission in Brussels and eventually joining Siemens in Munich. In 1980, he started his career with the United Nations and, during more than three decades, served in four cities on three continents in a variety of functions. In 2009, he was appointed as Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management at Headquarters in New York. His doctorate in Political Science (African Studies) was obtained from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx