
Our Conference This Year
The Transatlantic Climate Bridge Conference 2022 is a three-day online coming together that seeks to further strengthen the climate and energy alliance between Germany, the United States, and Canada. This year's conference will convene from Wednesday, 6 July through Friday, 8 July.
From panel discussions and journalistic interviews to live podcast recordings and business roundtables, our innovative formats will keep conversations fresh, informative, and leave plenty of room for interaction. The sessions are designed to provide a space for discourse and collaboration between national and sub-national actors, the private sector, civil society organizations, and youth change agents.
Conference Events
This year's conference will create opportunities for meaningful exchange on both the national and sub-national levels on topics like:
Participants and attendees will have a chance to learn from peers working across disciplines to achieve society-wide carbon neutrality.

Last Year's Conference

This year’s conference aimed to build a strengthened network of transatlantic cooperation showing new perspectives of climate policy transformation in terms of foreign trade, geostrategy as well as social policy. Participants presented approaches to transatlantic cooperation and discussed new initiatives.

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The opening session gave an overview of the prospects for transatlantic cooperation in climate policy. There were welcoming remarks by former German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and by Marc Garneau, former Foreign Minister of Canada.
The welcoming remarks were followed by a moderated discussion. Topics reached from a foreign policy focus to a broader perspective including the business sector, sub-national cooperation and civil society.
Panellists:
- Ambassador Emily Haber, German Embassy in Washington DC
- Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, State of Wisconsin
- Julie Cerqueira, Executive Director U.S. Climate Alliance
Moderator:
- Justin Worland (Time Magazine)