It has been one of those meetings were you have two days to go deeper into the topics than within a telephone or video conference. 27 Ministers of Environment from the European Union gathered in Essen, Nordrhein-Westphalia to discuss the climate politics of the continent for the next years.Club of Pioneers was there, meeting with Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Achim Steiner and Alex Goerlach
Steiner worked with the worldwide largest Environmental Protection NGO,the IUCN in Washington (D.C.) and Asia before he became Secretary General of World Commission on Dams (WCD) in Capetown. Jeremy Rifkin is the founder and CEO of Foundation on Economic Trends. In now 17 books he wrote about the changes in development, technique and the labor processes. He is an observer of the consumer society. His books are translated into 20 languages.

Jeremy Rifkin and Alex GoerlachBoth Rifkin and Steiner agreed to speak in upcoming posts of Club of Pioneers about their work and their vision for a sustainable future. During the conference they were introduced into the Hydrogen 7 of BMW and the company's vision of a future Hydrogen powered world.