Transatlantic Climate Dinners - Wine & Ideas from the New World
This series of events brought U.S. climate policy experts together with their German counterparts to discuss policies, strategies and recent developments in the climate debate in an informal yet private atmosphere. Dinner participants included senior experts from government, research, civil society, and business.
The Transatlantic Climate Dinners open up a new window for bilateral communication between Germans and Americans. They offer an opportunity to exchange views among high-level representatives and opinion-leaders, while taking place in an informal atmosphere and thus providing the chance of bypassing the fixed positions in official consultations and negotiations. By learning about both shared values and differing national approaches, the dinners provide a forum for developing new ideas. The exchange of opinions and the meeting of experts from both countries fosters the network building that can lead to reaching common approaches and goals.
The objectives of the series of Transatlantic Climate Dinners were to:
· Open lines of communication between the United States and Germany
· Exchange ideas and practices for addressing climate change
· Foster thoughtful and engaging debate by providing opportunities to
hear differing and sometimes controversial political perspectives
· Identifying areas of common ground that could serve as a basis for working
towards US-German convergence on climate policy
· Discuss ways for future cooperation
Transatlantic Climate Dinners are part of Ecologic’s Dinner Dialogue series and are supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).
