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Booklaunch within the Postdoctoral Dialogue Series "Norms, Plurality and Critique"With Dr. Peer Illner (Normative Orders, Goethe University) and Prof. Darrel Moellendorf (Normative Orders, Goethe University)Welcome Address by: Prof. Rainer Forst (Normative Orders, Goethe University)Organized by: Dr. Peer Illner (Author)Many communities in the United States have been abandoned by the state. ...

Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals.Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame ...

The Seminar will focus on more effectively understanding and addressing the impact of COVID-19 on rural poverty and inequality, within the context of forest-based livelihoods. The objective of the Seminar is to increase understanding of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts, and is conditioned by, poverty and inequality, particularly within the context of forest-based livelihoods. Participants will ...

Public investments in research and development that aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions to date have focused heavily on physics and chemistry. It’s time for biology to play a much bigger role. Recent breakthroughs in gene editing are unlocking vast opportunities to mitigate climate change. They range from enhancing the efficiency of photosynthesis to reducing methane emissions from cows to ...

The role of urban forests and green spaces in improving community resilience and reducing the harmful impact of COVID-19 The webinar will focus on how the natural capital of a city has an important influence on the wellbeing of urban dwellers. This will be examined by experts from different sectors that will attempt to give a balanced view of how to optimize urban forestry management for health ...

Europe’s top-three lignite countries are Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, Europe’s lignite triangle. Over the last dozen or so months, national discussions on the gradual phasing out of lignite have accelerated in these countries. The German Coal Commission proposed to close all hard coal- and lignite-fired power plants by 2038 at the latest, and the German parliament adopted this plan. ...

Carbon Tracker and Finance Watch invite you to join us for a discussion on the risks linked to fossil fuel finance and the policy solutions available to address that risk. The threat of climate change is disrupting the entire fossil fuel system, with profound consequences on financial stability and geopolitics. We are in a doom loop where fossil fuel finance enables climate change and climate ...

The COVID-19 Forestry Web-Seminar Week will feature a series of virtual sessions in the week in which COFO and the World Forest Week were originally scheduled. The sessions comprise high-level events as well as technical thematic sessions. Thematic sessions are organized by the FAO’s Forestry Department with partners within and outside FAO. As the COVID pandemic continues to spread around the ...

The EU’s taxonomy regulation aims to reorient capital flows towards a more sustainable economy. A unified classification system should enable investors to distinguish between activities that contribute significantly to a sustainable economy and those that do not, and to invest accordingly. The current proposal for a “green taxonomy”, published in March by the European Commission’s ...

This course teaches the R programming language in the context of statistical data and statistical analysis in the life sciences. We will learn the basics of statistical inference in order to understand and compute p-values and confidence intervals, all while analyzing data with R code. We provide R programming examples in a way that will help make the connection between concepts and ...

Digital Agricultural Technologies (DATs) are innovations that enable farmers and agribusiness entrepreneurs to leapfrog to increase their productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness, facilitate access to markets, improve nutritional outcomes and enhance resilience to climate change. These technologies range from mobile apps to digital identities for farmers to solar applications for agriculture ...

Workers of the future will need new sets of skills to compete. Recent advances in technology are changing how we live, communicate and do business, disrupting traditional industries and redefining the employee-employer relationship. Thousands of routine and low-skill jobs will be eliminated by automation, A.I. and digital hyper-connectivity. However, these same advances present new opportunities, ...

2020 was set to be a “super year” for nature and the planet. Then COVID-19 hit. The COP15 on Biodiversity, hosted by China, is postponed to 2021, as is the Climate COP26 hosted by the UK. Interestingly, the pandemic is also a stark boost to this agenda: it reminds us that we face permanent disaster if we do not act immediately to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystems. On 20th May, the EU has ...

In line with its COVID-19 response, the UNFCCC secretariat is currently not convening any physical meetings. But the work in 2020 remains critical for making progress on climate change and, as the Executive Secretary has outlined, is not in any form on hold. While the subsidiary body sessions (SB 52) have been postponed to 4–12 October 2020, arrangements for continuing work through virtual ...

The World Energy Council traditionally supports the German-African Energy Forum as a partner. With 400 visitors and participants from over 35 African countries every year, the Energy Forum is the most important platform for European-African cooperation in the energy sector. In 2019 the focus was on the implementation and financing of the African Energy Revolution. The forum concentrates on the ...

Many experts assess the risk of a further collapse of the banking and financial system as very high. If this proves true, society and politics should be better prepared this time and not have to rescue the banks and financial markets at the expense of society again. Otherwise, there is a threat of a serious political crisis of legitimacy, a further rise of anti-democratic movements and an ...

This event will bridge policy and market perspectives, discussing how power sector regulations and carbon pricing mechanisms interact and can be aligned to ensure a cost-effective decarbonization of the power sector. A key focus will be keeping these efforts in line with the Paris Agreement while safeguarding the reliability and affordability of electricity systems in transition. Speakers: Luca Lo ...

Metropolitan regions around the UK and the wider world are pledging to move to net zero carbon emissions on ambitious timescales. With transport a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (in the UK transport is now the largest source), urban transport authorities have a key role to play in the transition to net zero. Some of the measures that urban transport authorities can take are solely ...

Countries throughout Southeast Europe (SEE) have high shares of lignite-fired electricity in the mix, generated by an ageing fleet of power plants. About 50 percent of the region’s lignite generation capacity must be modernised or replaced in the next decade. Investment choices in the next three to five years will thus determine whether SEE avoids a fossil fuel lock-in as most of the planned new ...

The 5th International YES (Young Earth Scientists ) Congress will be held in the vibrant city of Berlin under the theme "Rocking Earth's Future". It will be a special opportunity for young scientists from all over the world to share their experiences, their science and culture and to expand their skills. Global change confronts us with major challenges such as rapid population growth, increasing ...