Prof Droege to give keynote address
Prof Droege will be speaking at the 2nd International Conference of the Engineers and Public Works Contractors Fund (TMEDE), titled “Redefining the Future Horizons,” to be held in Athens on 9-10 December 2025.
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Seminar with Prof. Peter Droege
Title: Beyond Paris: the race to stabilise the climate by design
5 November 2025 13:30 AEST
Cent134 – Harvard 2 Lecture Theatre, University of Tasmania
The presentation covers needed changes in global practice and public perception, and covers the trajectory of local and regional climate mitigation measures through urban and regional design.
Invitation to the Global Maritime Accord – Academy 6th Webinar
Event: 8 June 2025
EST 0800 BST 1300 CEST 1400 IST 1730 AEST 2200
Invitation to the 6th Webinar for Ocean and Climate Policy Innovators, Researchers and Media
Join us for Topic 6: Plastics and Overfishing – Key challenges for ocean health
The Global Maritime Accord (GMA) is the first integrated and coordinated approach towards the harmonized
administration and governance of the oceans, especially the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction.
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Beyond Paris: emergency imperatives for global policy and local action
New article publication
SPRINGER NATURE
Sustainable Earth Reviews,Vol. 8, article number 2, (2025)
by Prof. Peter Droege
International climate negotiations have not achieved their objectives of halting or even slowing global heating. Current developments in deglaciation, temperature rise and ocean acidification exceed the projected trajectories, taking much of the scientific community by surprise. The policy and action frameworks established to confront the challenge do not match its enormity, nor the speed in which it unfolds.
It is time to recognize that the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement aim of limiting heating by the year 2100 to 2.0, and ideally 1.5 °C above pre-industrial temperature levels cannot be met under current dynamics. Global temperatures have passed the 1.5 °C threshold in 2023—and continue beyond it since, at an accelerating rate, and without significantly effective corrective action. This article outlines reasons for this, and ten key policy directions for moving forward. These are founded on the recognition that not individual, narrowly conceived efforts promise success, but only a combination of mutually reinforcing measures can help the recovery of a healthy biosphere. It promises to halt further decline and arrive at climate stabilization. Only a healthy biosphere is capable of stabilizing the global climate. All we can do—and everything we must do—is assist the process of regenerating and safeguarding this capacity.
System Change Now: Climate, Nature, Technology and Money.
World Systemic Forum Feature 2025
Watch as LISD hosts the inaugural WSF Feature 2025 at the University of Liechtenstein
System Change Now: Climate, Nature, Technology and Money.
World Systemic Forum Feature 2025
Friday, 17.01.2025,
13.30 – 16.30 CET
University Liechtenstein
‘What systemic changes are needed in the economic, monetary and financial system to reverse the negative developments of the last 50 years for the environment and climate stability over the next 50 years? The question is not academic: while measures are in principle of a project nature, the fundamental existential dynamic that needs to be halted and reversed is of a decidedly systemic nature. Is the monetary system even capable of this?
In order to explore these questions and articulate principles for a more systemically sustainable monetary and financial system, a group of experienced minds from related fields are coming together at the University of Liechtenstein for a public roundtable. It is one of the roundtables that will be held in the run-up to the World Systemic Forum of Rudi Hilti’s System Change Foundation on January 18, 2025. It is actively supported by Prof. Peter Droege, who says: “Sustainability Finance, i.e. using money in a regenerative and climate-stabilizing way, should be called SDG Zero: fundamental financial system dynamics drive environmental change. Yet this is not one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.”
https://www.uni.li/de/alle-veranstaltungen/@@event_detail/72971.67
Net-negative by 2050 is feasible
We have long called for abandoning ‘Net-zero by 2050’ as a dangerously false goal. Fortescue Metals Group and its Chair Andrew Forrest are to be applauded and followed – for having the clarity of view and plan, readiness and action to call global climate neutrality and net-zero targets by 2050 a ‘proven fantasy’ – and to promote absolute zero emissions globally by 2040 instead. Fortescue, the world fourth largest mining company is determined to be 100% fossil-fuel free by 2030. This implies that our global goal of being net-negative by 2050 is now seen as feasible by the successful leader of one of the world’s hardest-to-abate industrial sectors.
Fortescue 6MW EV charger
Fortescue Zero & Downer Battery Electric Locomotive
We do not hold any interest or stake in Fortescue Metals Group.
University of Sierra Leone joins REED Scholarship
LISD is pleased to announce the University of Sierra Leone’s participation in the Liechtenstein REED Scholarship program. To learn more about Master of Philosophy in Energy Studies – Renewables at USL, click here.
Invitation to the Global Maritime Accord – Academy 5th Webinar
Event: 8 June 2024
EST 0800, BST 1300, CET 1400, IST 1730, AEST 2200
Invitation to the 5th Webinar for Ocean and Climate Policy Innovators, Researchers and Media
Join us for Topic 5: Save the Oceans for a Safe Earth – World Ocean Day
The Global Maritime Accord (GMA) is the first integrated and coordinated approach towards the harmonized
administration and governance of the oceans, especially the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction.
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Global Maritime Accord Academy – Current Webinars
Prof Droege Calls for Action: Regenerative Earth Decade
In support of Earth Day, observed today for the 54th year, Professor Peter Droege calls for the acceleration of the Regenerative Earth Decade (RED) Program and its climate action agenda formulated by him in 2020, and updated for today’s release.
Read more about Regenerative Earth Decade – Ten Points for Climate Stabilization