
The Transatlantic Climate Breakfast comes to New York Climate Week with special guest Steffi Lemke, current Green Party member of the German Bundestag and former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. New York-based practitioners and policy experts, including Elizabeth Stoehr from the Jamaica Bay Rockaway Park Conservancy, will join over breakfast to discuss how nature-based solutions are reshaping cities’ responses to climate change.
For those wishing to join remotely, we will offer a hybrid dial-in. Please select the appropriate ticket when registering.
At the Transatlantic Climate Breakfast series, hosted by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC; the Friedrich Ebert Foundation USA & Canada; and E3G, participants exchange views with experts in the US and Europe on various challenges in the climate and energy field. The goal is to foster a resilient network of transatlantic climate experts.
Biographies

Steffi Lemke is a current member of the German Bundestag for the Green Party and served as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection in Germany’s previous traffic-light coalition. She was a founding member of the Green Party in the former German Democratic Republic in 1990. Her focus topics are democracy and the environment and how these two interact:
“For me, environmental and consumer policy serve the causes of freedom, justice, and the protection of our natural resources. Preserving democracy in an intact environment is my guiding principle.”

Elizabeth Stoehr is the Deputy Director of the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, leading initiatives that integrate Nature-Based Solutions into urban climate resilience, restoration, and community engagement. She oversees projects that connect people to coastal ecosystems through stewardship, workforce development, and innovative partnerships that merge science, technology, and nature.




The Transatlantic Climate Breakfast comes to New York Climate Week with special guest Steffi Lemke, current Green Party member of the German Bundestag and former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. New York-based practitioners and policy experts, including Elizabeth Stoehr from the Jamaica Bay Rockaway Park Conservancy, will join over breakfast to discuss how nature-based solutions are reshaping cities’ responses to climate change.
For those wishing to join remotely, we will offer a hybrid dial-in. Please select the appropriate ticket when registering.
At the Transatlantic Climate Breakfast series, hosted by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC; the Friedrich Ebert Foundation USA & Canada; and E3G, participants exchange views with experts in the US and Europe on various challenges in the climate and energy field. The goal is to foster a resilient network of transatlantic climate experts.
Biographies

Steffi Lemke is a current member of the German Bundestag for the Green Party and served as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection in Germany’s previous traffic-light coalition. She was a founding member of the Green Party in the former German Democratic Republic in 1990. Her focus topics are democracy and the environment and how these two interact:
“For me, environmental and consumer policy serve the causes of freedom, justice, and the protection of our natural resources. Preserving democracy in an intact environment is my guiding principle.”

Elizabeth Stoehr is the Deputy Director of the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, leading initiatives that integrate Nature-Based Solutions into urban climate resilience, restoration, and community engagement. She oversees projects that connect people to coastal ecosystems through stewardship, workforce development, and innovative partnerships that merge science, technology, and nature.





The Transatlantic Climate Breakfast comes to New York Climate Week with special guest Steffi Lemke, current Green Party member of the German Bundestag and former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. New York-based practitioners and policy experts, including Elizabeth Stoehr from the Jamaica Bay Rockaway Park Conservancy, will join over breakfast to discuss how nature-based solutions are reshaping cities’ responses to climate change.
For those wishing to join remotely, we will offer a hybrid dial-in. Please select the appropriate ticket when registering.
At the Transatlantic Climate Breakfast series, hosted by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC; the Friedrich Ebert Foundation USA & Canada; and E3G, participants exchange views with experts in the US and Europe on various challenges in the climate and energy field. The goal is to foster a resilient network of transatlantic climate experts.
Biographies

Steffi Lemke is a current member of the German Bundestag for the Green Party and served as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection in Germany’s previous traffic-light coalition. She was a founding member of the Green Party in the former German Democratic Republic in 1990. Her focus topics are democracy and the environment and how these two interact:
“For me, environmental and consumer policy serve the causes of freedom, justice, and the protection of our natural resources. Preserving democracy in an intact environment is my guiding principle.”

Elizabeth Stoehr is the Deputy Director of the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, leading initiatives that integrate Nature-Based Solutions into urban climate resilience, restoration, and community engagement. She oversees projects that connect people to coastal ecosystems through stewardship, workforce development, and innovative partnerships that merge science, technology, and nature.



