10 | Highlights Opening
OPENING
Climate-Neutral Chemical Industry 2050
Monday, 22 August 2022, 17:00 – 18:30 h
Forum, Level 1
Ernst Rauch
Chief Climate and Geo-Scientist
Munich Re Group, Munich,
Germany
Dr. Martin Brudermüller
President of CEFIC – The European
Chemical Industry Council, AISBL,
Brussels, Belgium
CEO, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen,
Germany
Martijn Smit
Business Development
Director, Northern Lights,
Stavanger, Norway
Europe aims to become climate-neutral by 2050. The chemical
industry is also working on technologies to achieve this
goal. What are the opportunities, challenges and obstacles
for a climate-neutral chemical industry and society? How do
we shape the necessary political framework conditions and
incentives, which financial instruments are required?
After the welcome address and opening of ACHEMA by Klaus
Schäfer, Chief Technology Officer of Covestro AG and Chairman
of DECHEMA e.V., Martin Brudermüller, President of CEFIC – The
European Chemical Industry Council, will present the perspective
of the European chemical industry in his keynote speech at the
end of the first day of the exhibition. Afterward, open questions
will be discussed with Martijn Smit, Business Development
Director of Northern Lights, and Ernst Rauch, Chief Climate and
Geo-Scientist of Munich RE.
Dr. Klaus Schäfer
CTO, Covestro AG,
Leverkusen, Germany
Attendance at the
opening is open to
all ACHEMA attendees on a
space-available basis.
Further information and
pre-registration at
www.achema.de/
side-events