Kirsten Dunlop

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CEO
EIT Climate-KIC

She is CEO at Europe’s largest public-private partnership focused on climate innovation. She has over 30 years of experience catalysing systemic transformations in a career spanning academia, consulting, banking, and the insurance industry. She is recognised as a leader at the European Commission Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation (ESIR) expert group.

Kirsten Dunlop on the Schedule 2023

Friday, 25 August

Starting times
Afternoon
Sufficiency and Democracy: New Processes for Inclusive Societal Transformation
150
Amidst the prevalence of greenwashing and lukewarm sustainability strategies, sufficiency concepts could serve as a powerful means to reignite the ambition required for a profound societal transformation towards sustainability. However, public debates on sufficiency often remain limited in scope, primarily focusing on reducing excessive individual consumption of resources and energy. Yet, sufficiency is fundamentally an integral component for an inclusive societal transformation. Embracing the aim of a good life for all, how can we effectively translate the principles of sufficiency into a new social understanding within democratic societies? On this we will reflect during a walk, discussing the development of new understandings and their implications for participation processes, governance structures, and existing institutions.
 
Session Objective: Creating a community of action – Connect with like-minded individuals, build interest groups and promote long-term action by planning next steps and follow-ups with other participants.
 
//INFO: Hike to Gasthof Rossmoos. Bring hiking shoes and water. In case of heavy rain, there is going to be a shuttle to Gasthof Rossmoos.
Ort Alpbach , Buswendeplatz
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14:00 - 16:30 Sufficiency and Democracy: New Processes for Inclusive Societal Transformation
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Saturday, 26 August

Starting times
Afternoon
High Polluters in Europe: Can they Finance their Transition?
English 90
High-emitting companies, such as those in the energy sector, are major contributors to climate change and will therefore play a critical role in achieving the transition to net-zero. While low-carbon technology investments in the energy sector have increased steadily in recent years, we are far from where we need to be. How can emitters, investors, investment banks and policy makers move the dial on financing the transition? How can capital markets help accelerate this process?
 
Session objective: Imagining new possibilities – Get inspired and foster new ideas by imagining bold solutions to complex challenges and imagine disruptively new ways of thinking.
Congress Centrum Alpbach , CCA Schrödinger-Saal
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14:00 - 15:30 High Polluters in Europe: Can they Finance their Transition?
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Sunday, 27 August

Starting times
Afternoon
Opening: Europe in the World Days
English 120
With the multiple crises our continent is still facing, Europe needs to become bolder in shaping the world. It must accelerate its green transition, regain its technological competitiveness, take its security into its own hands and defend its democratic values. A Bold Europe is not an option, it is a necessity.
 
First Part: Europe's role in the World and a Bold Europe - European Neighbourhood and Geopolitics
 
Speakers: 
- Alexander Schallenberg
- Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu
- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
- Oleksandra Matviichuk
 
Second Part: Europe's role in the World and a Bold Europe - Democracy and Climate
 
Speakers: 
- Reinhard Bütikofer
- Kirsten Dunlop
- Oby Ezekwesili
Congress Centrum Alpbach , CCA Herz-Kremenak-Saal
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16:30 - 18:30 Opening: Europe in the World Days
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