Under the patronage of the German Consulate in Atlanta, NC State Global has designed a project and programming under the initiative of the “Transatlantic Climate Bridge” (TCB). The TCB is an initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection. Projects under the TCB have fostered strengthened cooperation on climate and energy policy issues between Germany (and Europe as a whole) on one side of the Atlantic and the US and Canada on the other.

This project, “NC and the Ostsee” (Ostsee is Baltic Sea in German) utilizes the framework of the Sister City relationship between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to examine climate change, sustainability, and biodiversity in these two river-basin and watershed geographies. This closing seminar will cover German-American relations in the area of sustainability, with a reflection about the Transatlantic Climate Bridge project with Rostock. 

Speakers: 

German Honorary Consul, Dagmar Fahr
Max Gruenig, Climate and Energy Economist with POCACITO, Georgetown University
Cody Charland, Raleigh Sister Cities
Allison Haskins, Office of Global Engagement
Erin Seekamp, College of Natural Resources, Director of NC State Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative

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