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On 25 February 2010, Bernd Balkenhol (ILO), Martin Godemann (ProCredit), and Johannes Majewski (GTZ) provided an introduction to the broad field of microfinance and showed business models in practice.
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Prof. Schellnhuber and Prof. Latif take the view that little can be achieved at UN level. Instead, they advocate deploying all the technological means at our disposal during our Dialogue Forum on 19 January 2010.
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The state of the world economy dominates the public debate. Important issues such as the growing levels of poverty and sustainable development are pushed to the sidelines. On 26 November 2009 Prof. Radermacher and Prof. von Weizsäcker highlighted global challenges and discussed possible solutions.
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We will discuss the impact of the global economic crisis on international development policy, on the rise in poverty in many countries and on climate change.
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The fifth and final resources dialogue forum, held on 21 April 2009, considered ways of meeting future energy demand. Experts outlined their energetic visions for the future.
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The fossil fuel age is drawing inexorably to a close. The fourth evening debate on the subject of resources, held on 17 March 2009, focused on the potential environmental, economic and political consequences of dwindling oil supplies.
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Are we really capable of supplying a growing population with enough food? Experts discussed this fundamental issue at the third resources dialogue forum, held on 17 February 2009.
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The second dialogue forum in the series on resources, which took place on 20 January 2009, examined the effects that shortages of raw materials can have, and how best to deal with the impact of dwindling resources.
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On 21 October 2008 the opening event "Resources - where are we going?" launched the new dialogue forum series 2008/9. Not a single spare seat was to be had for Munich Re Foundation’s forum evening.
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This is the fourth dialogue forum series organised by the Munich Re Foundation. The 2008/2009 series will focus on the current and future availability of resources.
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The effects of climate change were discussed at the last of the “Munich 2030” dialogue forums on 15 April 2008, one of the issues raised being the outlook for wine growers in Munich.
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Learning is a lifelong process, in the opinion of the audience of over 100 which attended the fourth “Munich 2030” dialogue forum on 11 March 2008.
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No one is indifferent to poverty, even in a city like Munich, but merely defining poverty gave rise to controversy in the debate on 21 February.
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On January 22 about 130 interested citizens informed themselves about the demographic trends in Munich.
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The inaugural event launching the third series of dialogue forums on 7 November attracted keen attention. An audience of almost 140 listened attentively to ideas on city life in 2030 proposed by Munich’s Lord Mayor Ude and the futurologist Dr. Steinmüller.
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The forthcoming 2007/2008 dialogue forums will be the third series of discussions with the aim of increasing public awareness. The foundation intends to position the dialogue forums as a “local brand”, establishing itself as an active partner in the debate on “people at risk” in Munich.
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The fifth and last debate in the 2006 series of dialogue forums focused not on the risks themselves but on our attitude towards them.
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A more appropriate title for the fourth dialogue forum might well have been “Thinking the unthinkable”. The discussion centred not on epidemics, diseases confined to a given geographical area, but on pandemics, which strike on a global scale.
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Between 24 and 32 million people in Germany suffer from allergies. Every year, 3,000 people die from the effects of asthma. Distinguished allergists responded to questions posed by sufferers.
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The second dialogue forum addressed a current hot topic – fine dust.The WHO’s new guidelines and the EU Parliament’s latest proposals triggered a heated discussion.
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The first dialogue forum of the series “The risks of living in Munich – Perceived and actual” comprised a discussion among citizens and experts about the real and imagined risks to which children and adolescents are exposed in the city.
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What risks are our children really exposed to by city life? Is fine dust making us ill? How do the media influence the way we perceive risks? Beginning in September 2006, a new series of dialogue forums will be examining these and other topical issues.
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Man-made climate change will have a tremendous impact on the water cycle and on water-related natural disasters. Four international experts presented their views on how climate change will impact water-related risks from the human, environmental and economic perspective.
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Identifying and classifying risks to which people are exposed, taking preventive measures, and making recommendations for coming to terms with these risks – these are tasks that concern both the Munich Re Foundation and the GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health.
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