Global Environmental Changes and Climate Change

Aim

To analyse and positively influence how society deals with environmental issues - in the past and present.

Project description

Forum for targeted fostering of the interdisciplinary dialogue between a number of leading research institutions in northern Germany and their representatives on questions of climate change and environmental research.

Past and future activities

  • 19 May 2011: podium discussion on "Why isn’t anyone doing anything about climate change?" Natural sciences, humanities and social sciences in conflict in Hamburg
  • 20 May 2011: workshop on "Society’s approach to climate change: social science and humanities perspectives" in Hamburg
    - within the field
    - compendium on the workshop in preparation
  • 18 December 2012: podium discussion on "What next in international climate policy?" in Hamburg
    - within the scope of the 2012 German Science Year on "Project Earth: Our Future"
    - Topic: outcomes of the 18th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (26.11–7.12.2012 in Qatar)
  • 3 December 2015: podium discussion on "Last exit: Paris – challenges of climate change" in Kiel on the occasion of the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (30.11–11.12.2015 in Paris)
  • Focus on two key areas:
    - climate policies of the two largest carbon emitters, China and the USA
    - relationship between increased climate change and questions of forced migration and potential conflict escalation

Working group members