Climate Change and Climate Crisis
This lecture series is a sequel to the lecture series "Climate change and climate crisis. Interdisciplinary perspectives", "Climate change and climate crisis. Future perspectives and concepts", and Climate change and climate crisis. Transformative concepts and innovation".
It will address current issues of climate change and climate crisis through the lenses of various disciplines, such as climate science, geography, economics, cultural studies, political science, law, finance and more.
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.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Join us for the panel discussion on "Climate Crisis and Intergenerational Justice"
What will our future look like if we don't act now?
The issue of intergenerational justice revolves around this question, which, at the latest since the emergence of Fridays for Future, has also led children and young people around the world to demand effective action.
From a legal point of view, this term plays an increasingly important role in the fight against climate change in the context of so-called "climate lawsuits". What is being demanded here is a fair distribution of burdens between the generations. Nevertheless, the term "intergenerational justice" and its connection to children's rights is still little illuminated in Austria. Therefore, it will be discussed what is meant by intergenerational justice – especially from a children's rights perspective – where this argument has already been applied in legal proceedings and how this argumentation could perhaps also be made usable in Austria.
Moderation: Elisabeth Nemeth (UNIVIE)
Discussants: Sebastian Öhner (KJA Wien), Angela Kallhoff (UNIVIE), Nikolaus Handig (BOKU)
Sebastian Öhner, legal officer at the Vienna Children's and Youth Ombudsman's Office (KJA Wien) and board member of the Austrian League for Human Rights, studied law in Vienna and Istanbul University (TR).
Angela Kallhoff, professor at the Department of Philosophy (UNIVIE), focuses on ethics, political philosophy and applied ethics in her research.
Nikolaus Handig, researcher at BOKU, studied law in Vienna (UNIVIE) and Lisbon (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), focusing on environmental law and private commercial law.
To join us live on 26 January 2023, 4:45 p.m.
... in person: Lecture Hall C1, UniCampus Hof 2
... online: Link to livestream
LECTURE RECORDINGS
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:
290109 VO Climate Change and Climate Crisis - Staying within Planetary Boundaries (2022W)
We are looking forward to many exciting talks and discussions!
Lectures
"General Introduction / Climate Change: A very short intro"
06 October 2022
Christa Schleper and Franz Essl of the Faculty of Life Sciences will hold an introductory meeting on the upcoming lecture series.
*** Recorded lecture available on moodle
"Towards a sustainable ecosystem service of the ocean"
13 October 2022
Gerhard Herndl is Head of the Bio-Oceanography Unit, Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria.
"Forests under climate change: disturbance and resilience"
27 October 2022
Rupert Seidl is professor at the Technical University of Munich - Ecosystem Dynamics & Forest Management, Germany.
"European Forests in times of climate change and biodiversity crisis"
03 November 2022
After 17 years working with Greenpeace (Austria, CEE, International) Matthias Schickhofer started his freelance consultancy and photography career "supporting change".
"Imperial and solidary mode of living. Why it is so difficult to act against the climate crisis - and which alternatives are possible?"
10 November 2022
Ulrich Brand is professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna.
"Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss - Two Siamese twins"
17 November 2022
Franz Essl is professor at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna.
*** Recorded lecture not available due to technical issues
"Degrowth"
24 November 2022
Halliki Kreinin is Project Coordinator and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster
"Agroecosystems and sustainability - the next green revolution"
15 December 2022
Wolfram Weckwerth is professor at the Molecular Systems Biology Unit and Head of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna
*** Recorded lecture available on moodle
"Socioeconomic sustainability transformations: system innovation and place-based policies in an era of climate crisis"
12 January 2023
Michaela Trippl is professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
*** Recorded lecture available on moodle
"Climate change impacts on formal and informal settlements in Africa"
13 January 2023
Ibidun Adelekan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
*** Recorded lecture coming soon
"Welfare States for Future"
19 January 2023
Katharina Bohnenberger is researcher at the Institute for Social Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen.
"Psychology of Climate Change"
20 January 2023
Sabine Pahl is a Environmental Psychologist engaged in basic and applied research and her applied work focuses on the human dimension in environmental issues at the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna
*** Recorded lecture coming soon
"Climate Crisis and Intergenerational Justice"
26 January 2023
Sebastian Öhner studied law and currently focuses on the link between children's rights and environmental protection at the Kinder- und Jugendanwaltschaft Wien.
*** Recorded lecture coming soon
"Panel discussion"
26 January 2023
Panel discussion moderated by Elisabeth Nemeth, professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna. On the podium: Sebastian Öhner (überzuckert), Angela Kallhoff (University of Vienna), Nikolaus Handig (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
*** Recorded discussion coming soon
to be continued...
Organisation
Christa Schleper, Franz Essl (Faculty of Life Sciences), Ayansina Ayanlade (Fakultät für Geowissenschaften, Geographie und Astronomie)
Anna Ennsgraber, Hannah Geiser (Fridays 4 Future)
Financial Support
Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology
SPL 29
In cooperation with
Lectures for Future
