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Day 1: August 28, 2025

8:45–9:30 CEST — Words of Welcome & Opening Addresses

Speakers:

• Heinz Fassman, President, OEAW
• Hon. Michael Ludwig, Mayor, Vienna
• Joachim von Braun, President, PAS
• Wim van Saarloos, President, European Academies Science Advisory Council
• His Eminence, Cardinal Peter Turkson, Chancellor, PAS & PASS
• Hon. Norbert Totschnig, Federal Minister, Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management, Austria
• Jürgen Schneider, Head, Climate Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Climate- and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management

9:35–10:35 CEST — Challenges and Best Practices for Resilience – Mayors and Local Leaders

Moderator: Joachim von Braun, President, PAS

Speakers:

• Hon. Ricardo Rio, Mayor, Braga, Portugal, Global Parliament of Mayors Exec. Committee Chair
• Hon. Henriette Reker, Mayor, Cologne
• Hon. Nina Abrahamczik, Member, Vienna City Council
• Ada Ámon, Executive Director, Budapest Climate Agency
• Alastair Hannaford, WHO Youth Council Co-Chair, World Organization of the Scout Movement representative

10:40–11:00 CEST — Coffee Break

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11:05–12:05 CEST — Innovations and Entrepreneurship – New Ways of Addressing Climate Adaptation of Cities and Subregions

Moderator: Elena Lopez-Gunn, Founder and Director, ICATALIST & Senior Research Fellow, Royal Elcano Institute

Speakers:

• Gesa Ziemer, Professor, Digital Urban Cultures, HafenCity University
• Brigitte Mohn, Member, Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung
• Bianca Carvalho, WHO Youth Council, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines representative
• Frederik Galtung, Co-Chief Facilitator, Catalyst Now
• Alvaro Soldevila, Lead, Programs & Resilience Practice, Resilient Cities Network

12:10–12:40 CEST — Mitigation, Adaptation, Societal Transformation (MAST) – Resilience Concepts, Challenges and Actions

Moderator: Sr. Helen Alford, President, PASS

Speakers:

• Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Council, PASS
• Cornelia Richter, Bishop designate, Evangelical Church of Austria & Chair, Systematic Theology and Hermeneutic, Universität Bonn
• Markus Gerhartinger, Environmental Officer, Archdiocese of Vienna

12:45–13:45 CEST — Lunch

13:50–15:00 CEST — Innovative Financing Resilience & Insurance

Moderator: Bianca Pitt, Co-Founder, SHE Changes Climate

Speakers:

• Hon. Anne Hidalgo, Mayor, Paris
• Hon. Matteo Lepore, Mayor, Bologna
• Christof Reinert, Head of Risk Management Partners, on Future of Modeling Climate Risk, Munich Re Insurance
• Urtė Petrulytė, WHO Youth Council, World Organization of the Scout Movement representative
• Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO & Founder, We Don’t Have Time
• Christin Braak-Forstinger, Founder & CEO, Chi Impact Capital

15:05–16:15 CEST — Weather Disasters, Recovery and Prevention

Moderator: Frank McGovern, Vice Chair, JPI Climate

Speakers:

• Elina Bardram, Director for Climate Resilience and Information Management, European Commission, DG CLIMA
• Hon. Cornelia Weigand, County Commissioner, Ahrweiler District
• Hon. Paula Llobet Vilarrasa, Councilor for Innovation, Technology, Digital Agenda and Investment Capture, Valencia
• Elena Xoplaki, Acting Head, Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change Group, Institute of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen
• Ronit Batra, Climate Cardinals
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16:20–17:20 CEST — Interactive “European / Vienna Café Consultation on MAST Solutions” led by Youth

Youth Facilitators:

• Calisto Ochieng, Manager, Strategic Partnerships & Fundraising, World Organization of Scout Movement
• Corinna Fortunato, WHO Youth Council, European Network of Medical Residents in Public Health representative
• Natalia Pidmurniak, Youth Council, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Head of the International Medical Youth Diplomacy Department
• Lieke Vivianne Schipper, International Federation of Medical Students Association
• Kadrie Adem, MD, InciSioN Global Representative
• Olha Dybkaliuk, World Scouting
• Habib Olatunji Alagbo, WHO Youth Council representative, Health Education and Literacy Working Group
• Evangelia Savvidou, WHO/Europe EVID-ACTION Youth Alcohol Network, Youth Advisor
• Pauline Hastenteufel, Youth Health Organization
• Daniel Cieślak, Youth Climate Council Poland
• Mehmet Yağız Güzel, Vice President of Capacity, European Medical Students' Association
• Katja Čič, WHO Youth Council, Chair of Planetary Health Working Group, International Youth Health Organization representative

17:20–18:30 CEST — Reporting Back of Calls to Action by Youth Leaders to Plenary

Chair: Katja Čič, WHO Youth Council, Chair of Planetary Health Working Group, International Youth Health Organization representative

19:00 CEST — End of Day 1

Day 2: August 29, 2025

8:45–9:45 CEST — Climate Change and Health including Extreme Heat

Moderator: Jürgen Knoblich, PAS and OEAW

Speakers:

• Andy Haines, Professor, Environmental Change & Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Muha Hassan, WHO Youth Council, WMA-Junior Doctors Network representative
• Beth Stinchcombe, International Federation of Medical Students' Associations representative, WHO
• Lamia Messari-Becker, Professor, Energy-efficient Building Technology, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
• Eleni Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer, United Nations Human Settlements Programme
• Sascha Müller-Kraenner, CEO, Deutsche Umwelthilfe

9:50–10:50 CEST — The Change of European Mountain Areas – Glaciers, Water, Rocks and Landscapes

Moderator: Andrea Fischer, Institute of Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, OEAW

Speakers:

• Short part of new film “Requiem in Weiss” by Harry Putz
• Thomas Stocker, Climate and Environmental Physics, Universität Bern
• Keywan Riahi, Director, Program on Energy, Climate, and Environment, IIASA, Laxenburg
• Jakob Rhyner, Professor Emeritus, Global Change and Systemic Risks, University of Bonn & Chair, Science Advisory Committee, OEAW Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research
• Harry Putz, Filmmaker
• Sofia Bergqvist, Youth Health Organization, Human Geographer

10:55–11:15 CEST — Coffee Break

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11:20–12:20 CEST — Coastal Resilience (North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean)

Moderator: Costas Papanicolas, President Emeritus, Cyprus Institute

Speakers:

• Hon. George Hatzimarkos, Governor, South Aegean Region and President, Association of Greek Regions
• Nadia Pinardi, Professor, Physical Oceanography, University of Bologna & Director, Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience
• Antonio Navarra, President, The CMCC Foundation (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change)
• Jacek Piskozub, Vice Chair, Committee for the Climate Crisis, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Melinda Martins, WHO Youth Council, Youth Environment

12:25–13:25 CEST — Land Use, Water, Agriculture, Food System, Bioeconomy

Moderator: Cecilia Tortajada, PAS & University Glasgow and Singapore, Environmental Science and Sustainability, Water

Speakers:

• Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Jaime Flores Cabeza, Deputy Director, Canal de Isabel II
• Vera Eory, Climate Change Researcher, Edinburgh Campus
• Julia Weatherhogg, Programme Management Officer, Adaptation Division, UNFCCC
• Hinda Sahir, WHO Youth Council, Act4Food representative
• Louise E.M. Vet, Netherlands Institute of Ecology & Emeritus Professor, Evolutionary Ecology, Wageningen University

13:25–14:20 CEST — Lunch

14:25–15:35 CEST — Foresight and Scientific and Policy Innovations

Moderator: Wim van Saarloos, President of EASAC, Professor emeritus of theoretical physics, University of Leiden

Speakers:

• Örjan Gustafsson, PAS and University of Stockholm
• Inge Jonckheere, Head, Green Solutions Division, European Space Agency
• Dino Žujić, MD, Director, Standing Committee on Public Health, International Federation of Medical Students Association
• Eleni Zika, Head of Sector, European Research Council
• Frank Ewert, Scientific Director, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research & Professor, Crop Production, University of Bonn
• Pascale Braconnot, Climate Scientist, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace

15:40–16:50 CEST — Societal Transformation – Building Resilience with All Stakeholders in Multi-Level Governance

Moderator: Katja Čič, WHO Youth Council, Youth Representative Manager, International Youth Health Organization, Slovenia

Speakers:

• Hon. Henriette Reker, Mayor, Cologne
• Hon. Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Former Prime Minister, Iceland
• Hon. Serhii Morhunov, Mayor, Vinnytsia
• John Schellnhuber, Director General, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
• Nadia Pinardi, Professor, Physical Oceanography, University of Bologna & Director, Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience

16:55–17:25 CEST — Way Forward with Call to Action, Statements from Youth and Closing Remarks

Speakers:

• Joachim von Braun, President, PAS
• Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Council, PASS

17:25 CEST — End of Day 2

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