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The vision of the smart city promises efficient administration, improved quality of life for its residents, and a major contribution to sustainability. But what are the logics and ideals behind these promises and expectations? What are the perils when urban planning is determined by technology and data?In his lecture, Rob Kitchin addresses a number of political and normative questions related to ...

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals present a new social contract for the world in the quest to achieve ways of living and economic well-being that no longer undermines the biological and physical life-support systems that human development depends on. Currently, we are following a very dangerous path, facing potentially irreversible and disastrous impacts, due to rising global environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This lecture will be discussing Alexander von Humboldt’s role in the Age of Enlightenment and Discovery and how his idea of the ‘web of life’ resonates with Oceanic philosophies and complex networks, opening up new pathways to the future. With: Prof. Dame Mary Anne Salmond, University of Auckland Language: English A lecture in co-operation with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ...

Humboldt was a gifted scientific communicator. His lectures inspired a wide audience and his books were bestsellers. How did scientific communication function in his day, and how does it work today? With: Sir Philip Campbell (astrophysicist), Springer Nature Guest Professor, University of Heidelberg A lecture initiated by the Klaus Tschira Foundation** and the **Holtzbrinck Publishing ...

Environmental and climate information that can be precisely dated by the year can be gained from various tree ring parameters such as ring width, wood density, anatomical structures and chemical compositions. Dendrochronology thus offers a unique archive and precise tool for analysing human-environmental systems at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology. The scientific ...

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 ...

Demands for more sustainability in corporate business transactions and on capital markets have been becoming increasingly urgent since the outbreak of the financial crisis. There is clear potential for innovation here; the law, with all its options as well as its enabling and incentive function, can and must also be used to provide a regulatory framework for the positive developments that are ...

this conference shall provide a landmark for today’s great challenges towards sustainability. A critical and constructive debate on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the focal point of the conference. Linking to Humboldt’s perspective on nature and humanity as web of interconnections, we target symbiosis between social, cultural, political, economical, ...

Alexander von Humboldt was a political writer. His collected writings show how resolutely he engaged as a public intellectual in international matters – against slavery, for the emancipation of the Jews and in the presidential election campaign in the USA. They also show the limits of his commitment and the compromises he made with authoritarian governments. His testimony in both these regards ...

The Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB50) will host a wide range of events, meetings, and negotiating sessions that will set the stage for raising ambition to curb greenhouse gas emissions, accelerate resilience-building efforts, and ensure that climate policy is built on a solid foundation of the best available science and knowledge. ...

Current research approaches and historical perspectives from the collections of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will have an exhibition in its own space in the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin City Palace. In his Kosmos lecture head curator Gorch Pieken will be presenting the concept for the opening exhibition, which is intended to make a contribution to ...

We will be following in Humboldt’s footsteps to explore his groundbreaking insights into broad patterns in nature, his importance for plant geography and the relevance of his holistic procedure for solving today’s global challenges. With: Naia Morueta-Holme, University of Copenhagen Language: English ...

As in few other areas of policy and politics, climate policy exposes the erosion of public trust in science and democracy. Confidence that democracies will be able to get on top of the challenges presented by climate change is dwindling, while autocratic regimes such as China are viewed as forerunners. Democracy is being held up against these views of things as the political system that is ...

Alexander von Humboldt was a revolutionary visionary who saw the Earth and its landscapes as a system of interconnected components in space and time. Such a way of seeing is more urgent than ever if we are to make the impending sustainability transformations we need. Humboldt’s new view of the Earth provided a pioneering “Humboldt programme for the Anthropocene”. With: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang ...

At the venue of the historical Kosmos lectures, the HU lecture series marking the 250th birthday of Alexander von Humboldt will be opened by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and climate researcher Paulo Artaxo. As an environmental physicist, Artaxo is one of South America’s most prominent scientists. He played a leading role in the 2007 IPCC Climate Change Report, for which he and his ...

The European Geothermal PhD Day (EGPD) is intended to connect PhD researchers from all over Europe working in the field of geothermal energy and will celebrate its 10th anniversary at its original host institution, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Potsdam. Every year, between 50-80 young scientists from various research fields such as geology, geochemistry, rock ...