Climate Guide Brandenburg: Panel discussion with Prof. Roh Pin Lee from BTU

In 2024, the state adopted an overall strategy for climate neutrality and sustainability with its climate plan. This has now been supplemented by the Brandenburg Climate Guide, which provides an overview of the research institutions' activities relevant to climate protection. It is intended to serve as a guide for stakeholders from politics, administration, business and society in their search for scientific contacts when designing and implementing climate protection measures.

"Climate guide is a central element of the climate plan"

Dr Friederike Haase, State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Climate Protection, opened the event to present the publication on 28 February 2025 at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) in Potsdam. She said: "The climate guide is a central element of the climate plan and therefore of the state government's overall climate policy strategy. It creates transparency and not only enables faster and better networking between stakeholders from business and science. The climate guide will help to ensure that innovative solutions are put into practice more quickly and thus also accelerate the transformation. The Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region has an outstanding scientific landscape and we need science, politics, business, administration and society to work together to achieve climate neutrality by 2045. The climate guide is another step in the right direction."

Keynote speech and panel discussion with Prof. Roh Pin Lee from BTU

After the opening, Prof. Roh Pin Lee from BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg gave the keynote speech on the topic: "Decarbonisation of carbon-intensive industry in Brandenburg". This was followed by a panel discussion in which the question "How can science and practice work together effectively to implement the Brandenburg Climate Plan?" was discussed. Tobias Dünow (State Secretary in the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture), Prof. Dr Hermann Lotze-Campen (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, board chairperson of the Brandenburg Scientific Climate Council), Prof. Dr Roh Pin Lee (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, member of the Brandenburg Scientific Climate Council), Michael Knape (Mayor of Treuenbrietzen/ Energy and Climate Protection/ Economic Development), Prof. Dr Sophia Becker (RIFS Potsdam (member of the Brandenburg Scientific Climate Council)) engaged in lively discussions. The event was moderated by Julia Miosga ("Die Digitallandschaftsgärtnerin").

BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg in the Brandenburg Climate Guide

The Brandenburg Climate Guide is divided into ten subject areas: (1) Energy and hydrogen, (2) Building, housing and heating, (3) Climate-neutral economy and industry, waste and recycling management, (4) Transport and mobility, (5) Agriculture and food, (6) Land use, forestry and sink effect, (7) Bioeconomy, (8) Greenhouse gas-neutral state administration, municipal climate protection and climate governance, (9) Citizen participation, climate education and sustainable consumption and (10) Climate system research.

On the BTU side, the Energy Innovation Centre (EIZ) and the DLR e.V. - Institute for Low-Carbon Industrial Processes, Simulation and Virtual Design department are listed in topic area 1. In topic area 2, the Infrastructure and Mobility Planning Chair at the Institute of Urban Planning is presented and in topic area 3, Prof. Lee's Decarbonisation and Transformation of Industry at the Faculty of Business, Law and Society.