ICCA2015 Detlef Raphael, Councilor of the Association of German Cities (L-R): Franzjosef Schafhausen, BMUB; Mayor Stefan Schostok, Hanover; Mayor Roland Schäfer, Bergkamen; District Administrator Bernhard Reuter, Göttingen; and Inka Schneider, NDR Local Public TV Station. Hermann Ott, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, and Nick Reimer, Klimaretter.info Franzjosef Schafhausen, BMUB, and Stefan Wenzel, Lower Saxony Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Mitigation Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat All recipients of the 2015 German Climate Action Awards for Local Government Ambassador Philippe Etienne, France Recipients of the German "Climate Action Award for Local Government 2015" in the category of Local Climate Action through Cooperation Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, BMUB Inka Schneider, NDR Local Public TV Station ICCA2015 opens with standing room only. Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Parliamentary State Secretary, BMUB Recipients of the German "Climate Action Award for Local Government 2015" in the category of Local Climate Action through Participation Ambassador Henri Djombo, Minister for Sustainable Development, Forestry Economy and the Environment, Republic of Congo District Administrator Bernhard Reuter, Göttingen Mayor Roland Schäfer, Bergkamen Monika Zimmermann, ICLEI Deputy Secretary General; Miranda Schreurs, Freie Universität’s Environmental Policy Research Centre; and Inka Schneider, NDR Local Public TV Station Recipients of the German "Climate Action Award for Local Government 2015" in the category of Local Energy and Climate Action Management Professor Martin zur Nedden, President, Difu Inka Schneider, NDR Local Public TV Station Barbara Hendricks, Minister, BMUB Ambassador Henri Djombo, Minister for Sustainable Development, Forestry Economy and the Environment, Republic of Congo Rob Hopkins, Transition Network, UK Barbara Hendricks, Minister, BMUB, during the High-Level Panel on Local Action for Solutions Video: Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, France (L-R): Inka Schneider, NDR Local Public TV Station; Karsten Sach, Deputy Director-General, International Cooperation, BMUB; and Stefan Wenzel, Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Mitigation, Lower Saxony, Germany. Olav Hohmeyer, Agents of Change Cluster Lead (right) Berthold Goeke, Governance Cluster Lead (center) Ben Finkelstein, Finance Cluster Lead Holger Robrecht, Infrastructure Cluster Lead Chantal Van Ham, Ecosystems Cluster Lead (center) Svenja Schuchmann, Networks and Groups Cluster Lead (right) Lothar Nolte, Managing Director, Lower Saxony Climate and Energy Agency (center), with youth participants