Climate Change and Climate Crisis
This lecture series will investigate climate change and climate crisis through the lenses of a number of disciplines and will discuss concepts and perspectives for the future. All of the national and international speakers are well-known researchers in their respective fields and beyond. Many of them participate in public debates about the probable effects of the current climate crisis and about possible remedies.
Join us!
Please click the link to the livestream here (for Thursday at 4:45 p.m.).
Scroll down for the recorded lectures. They are placed below the lecture announcements.
The lecture series is open to all students of the University of Vienna and to the wider public:
290055 VO Climate Change and Climate Crisis. Future perspectives and concepts. (2020W)
We are looking forward to many exciting talks and discussions!
Lectures
“Biodiversity loss and conservation”
08.10.2020 Franz Essl
Prof at the Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology & Landscape Ecology, Uni Vienna and in the Austrian “Biodiversitätsrat”
*** Recorded lecture "Franz Essl" available here
“Steering markets in the direction of social-ecological transformation”
15.10.2020 Sigrid Stagl
Prof & chair of the dep. Socioeconomics at the WU, Vienna Uni of Economics and Business
*** Recorded lecture "Sigrid Stagl" available here
“Climate Change: Legal Challenges”
22.10.2020 Eva Schulev-Steindl
Prof of Public Law and Economic Law and member of the Field of Excellence Climate Change Graz at the Uni Graz
*** Recorded lecture "Eva Schulev-Steindl" available on moodle
“What we can learn for the future from the minimalist movements of the past”
29.10.2020 Annette Kehnel
Prof & Chair of Medieval History at the Uni Mannheim with a focus on Historical Anthropology & Economic History
“Sustainable mobility concepts for Vienna and rural areas”
05.11.2020 Barbara Laa
Phd candidate at the Inst of Transport Sciences at the Technical Uni Vienna with a focus on land-use & transport modelling
“Transformation Design. Pathways towards a climate neutral future”
12.11.2020 Bernd Sommer
Head of the research division „Climate, Culture & Sustainability" at the Uni Flensburg
“Climate impact research and regional climate modeling”
19.11.2020 Christoph Matulla
Team leader of the Climate Impact Research Group at the ZAMG (Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie & Geodynamik)
“How climate change affects extreme weather (and how we know)”
26.11.2020 Friederike Otto
Prof in the Global Climate Science Programme at the Uni Oxford & co-lead of World Weather Attribution. This int. group analyses and communicates the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events
Warming stripes for Vienna 1775-2019
"IPCC, COP, AR5, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, UNFCCC - What is behind the abbreviations and how do you make Agreements with 196 countries?"
30.11.2020 Renate Christ
Christ was the director of the IPCC secretariat from 2004-15. In 2007 the IPCC members among them Christ received the nobel peace price together with Al Gore. Before she worked for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the EU
“The potential of peatland restoration for combatting climate change”
03.12.2020 Stephan Glatzel
Prof at the Dep. of geography and regional research, Uni Vienna and leads the Geoecology working group
“Generationenkonflikt oder -solidarität: Intergenerationelle Beziehungen in der Fridays for Future Bewegung”
10.12.2020 Antje Daniel
Dr for international development at the Uni Vienna with a focus on protest research
*** this lecture will not be recorded
"The political dimension of the climate crisis"
17.12.2020 Reinhard Steurer
Associate Professor at the Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policies at BOKU Vienna
Happy New Year 2021!
“The (uncertain) role of clouds for regional climate change”
07.01.2021 Aiko Voigt
Prof for global climate dynamic at the Uni Vienna with a focus on clouds & their impacts on the climate system
"Carbon budgets in climate science and policy"
11.01.2021 Joeri Rogelj
Lecturer in Climante Change and the Environment @ Grantham Insitute @ Imperial College London. Lead author of the upcoming 6th IPCC Assessment Report. Researcher @ International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg.
“Downscaling the Doughnut Economics for city & countries”
14.01.2021 Andrew Fanning
Visiting Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute, Uni Leeds plus the Data & Analysis lead of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab
“Carbon management for Universities & beyond: a new approach to achieve Paris-compliant climate goals”
21.01.2021 Gottfried Kirchengast
Prof & director of the Wegener Center for Climate & Global Change of the Uni Graz & head of the Atmospheric Remote Sensing & Climate System Research Group & project leader of the Institutional Carbon Management Project of the Uni Graz
*** Recorded lecture "Gottfried Kirchengast" available on moodle
... to be continued ...
Organisation
Christa Schleper, Franz Essl (Faculty of Life Sciences)
Adrian Hiss and Klara Butz (Fridays for Future)
Financial Support
Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology
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