Representatives of VW’s Sustainability Council recently visited Open Source Lab for an exchange about the Lab's activities and concepts.
In attendance were:
Georg Kell - Mr. Kell was the founding Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, and now chairs the Anglo-German asset manager Arabesque Partners.
Michael Sommer - Mr. Sommer is deputy chairman of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, member of the board of trustees of Volkswagen Stiftung and former chairman of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB).
Yves Leterme - Mr. Leterme is Secretary-General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and former Prime Minister of Belgium and leader of the Belgium Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) political party.
Margo Oge - Ms. Oge is the former Director of the Office of Transportation Air Quality of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She is the author of the book 'Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars'.
Pauline Sprenger on behalf of Ralf Pfitzner, VW Sustainability
The Open Source Lab team discussed with the Council recent findings and future cooperation. I presented a discussion paper I was recenlty tasked to create as a culmination of understandings stemming from a roundtable discussion hosted by Open Source Lab in April. The paper includes key challenges for mobility behaviour, zero carbon mobility transformations and new mobility governance. The discussion allowed for us to exchange our different opinions and experiences. All agreed on the importance of partnerships between private and public stakeholders for progress to be achieved.
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