Headline: Events in 2017

The Anthropocene presents us with the problem of all problems for a host of reasons:
- It was a colossal accident, a consequence of everyday life choices of billions of people.
- These choices are driven by an amalgamation of deeply rooted institutional, psychological and even biological forces.
- While the everyday actions of a few of us are far greater drivers than those of most us, but our lower-impact members are quickly adopting the habits of the affluent.

Modern Western democracy is undergoing a significant crisis. Public spheres and political communities are highly fractured. Right-wing populism is on the rise. Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor and German political scientist Patrizia Nanz will discuss the past, present, and future of the democratic subject, the ‘Homo Politicus’, and the shivering normative foundations of modern democracies. What institutional and social scenarios can be envisioned for the future?

Scientists and stakeholders anticipate alternative futures for remote Russian Arctic region

„Die Menschen sind der Experten müde, sie haben genug von ihnen.“ Das sagt – auf dem Höhepunkt der Debatte mit dutzenden Expertenwarnungen vor dem Brexit konfrontiert – der britische Justizminister, ein Brexit-Befürworter. Er sagt es öffentlich, im Fernsehen.

The workshop addresses issues of energy transition over two days.

Effektiver Vollzug eines umweltverträglichen Tiefseebergbaus: Die Aufgabe der „Sponsoring States“ mit besonderem Blick auf Deutschland und unter Berücksichtigung der Aufgaben der Organe der „International Seabed Authority“ (ISA)

The 2030 Agenda adopted by the UN in 2015 is the first such programme to systematically link social and ecological sustainable development goals (SDGs). And for the first time industrial nations are also called on to play their part in achieving the social SDGs.

Building on the COBENEFITS Project of Germany’s International Climate Initiative (IKI), led by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, policy options to integrate the co-benefits approach to the international climate arc