Spotlight on Presenting Committee Member: German Consulate
What is the Transatlantic Climate Bridge?
In 2009 the German Government started a new initiative called the Transatlantic Climate Bridge (www.transatlantic-climate-bridge.org). This initiative tries to foster transatlantic cooperation and partnerships between Germany, the US and Canada on climate and energy policies at the local, the state and the federal level.
It enforces our joint commitment to invest in newer, cleaner sources of energy that are creating new jobs in world-class industries, clean up the environment and protect the climate, improve standards of living and enhance global security.
As part of this program, the German Consulate in Atlanta is flying in a Dr. Christine Wörlen speaker for the Environmental Trade Mission to speak about this important initiative. Dr. Christine and the German Ambassador spoke in September on Capitol Hill at an event of the Heinrich Böll Foundation about the creation of 300.000 new green jobs created in the German economy. She is an international consultant on issues of integration of renewable energies and has degrees in Geo-Ecology and Economics from Bayreuth University (Germany) and a Ph.D. from Boston University. Until 2009 she was the Head of the Renewable Energy Division of the German Energy Agency GmbH (dena). Before joining dena, she was the Program Manager for Renewable Energy and New Low-GHG Emitting Energy Technologies at the Global Environment Facility, and a staff member of the World Bank. There she administered grants of more than 100 m USD p.a. to developing countries and economies in transition. Previously, she worked as a Research Associate for the Study Commission of the German Parliament on "Sustainable Energy Supplies in View of Globalization and Liberalization", which examined the future of energy supply for Germany.
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