Events

To minimise the environmental impact of our events, we consider sustainability at every stage of planning and continuously refine our processes.

05.05.2025 - 09.05.2025

UNECE CLRTAP Task Force

May 5-7: UNECE CLRTAP Task Force on Measurements and Modelling

We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for the 26th TFMM hybrid meeting, scheduled for May 5–7, 2024, in Potsdam, Germany.

The meeting will be hosted by the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS), back-to-back with the TF HTAP meeting.

On May 5 and 6, we aim to provide a comprehensive overview of ongoing and planned TFMM activities, with a focus on the next workplan (2026–2027).
In the morning of May 7, there will be a joint session with TF HTAP on the planned global-regional exerc...

06.05.2025 - 07.05.2025

Workshop

Amazon of Rights: Global Ecojurisprudence in Times of Urgency

This interdisciplinary gathering will bring together scholars, practitioners, activists, and artists for two days of in-depth discussions and exchanges. The workshop will serve as a platform to shape contributions for an edited volume, one of the key outcomes of the project. Topics include the Amazon’s (neo)colonial constitution and its legal instruments, alternative ways of seeing Amazonian normativity, and future-oriented eco-jurisprudence.

13.05.2025

Film und Diskussion

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Eine filmische Reise zu den Pionier*innen der Agrarwende - mit anschießender Podiumsdiskussion

20.05.2025

Veranstaltungen

Zukunftskonferenz: Transformation im Dialog zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich

Ohne eine erfolgreiche Energie- und Wärmewende in Frankreich und Deutschland ist europäische Klimaneutralität nicht möglich. Kommunen spielen eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Umsetzung. Welche Rahmenbedingungen brauchen Kommunen, um schnell und umfassend auf den Klimaneutralitätspfad einzuschwenken?

27.05.2025

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Veranstaltungen

Die Finanzierung der kommunalen Wärmewende erleichtern

Damit die Wärmewende auf kommunaler Ebene gelingen kann, müssen die Kommunen mit ausreichenden finanziellen Handlungsspielräumen ausgestattet werden. Gleichzeitig rücken auch Finanzierungsmodelle, die privates Kapital mobilisieren, in den Vordergrund. Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit Agora Energiewende.

28.10.2025 - 29.10.2025

The Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap is an important signal of political support for the establishment of clean hydrogen hubs in the United States.

Conference

Industrial decarbonization and hydrogen: The politics and economics of sustainable structural transformation

This conference will take stock of new research insights into the opportunities and challenges related to industrial decarbonization and the ramp-up of low-emission hydrogen. It places particular emphasis on techno-economic pathways and policies that may lead to inclusive and sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries.

03.12.2025 - 05.12.2025

RIFS Conference 2025

Tough Conversations in Tough Times

This conference focuses on the challenges for leading meaningful conversations about sustainability, on specific obstacles and on successful strategies for overcoming them.