Prof. Droege speaks at Esri Geodesign Summit 2026
‘Climate Geodesign’ by Professor Peter Droege, with introduction by Professor Tom Fisher.
2026 Geodesign Summit
15 April 2026, Esri, Redlands, California
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Prof. Droege speaks at WEF 2026
Professor Peter Droege speaks at the event Strategic Foresight for Cities: future-proofing development through innovative design and partnerships, hosted by Braillard Foundation and Futures Hub for Sustainability on the occasion of the 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos,19-23 January 2026.
Latest Urban Energy Transition Edition
Urban Energy Transition, Third Edition: Cities and Regions for a stable climate is the most current scientific and practice-based compendium on energy transformations in the global urban system. It also yields perspectives on climate stabilization and the need for comprehensive and additional climate action and policy frames that work in conjunction with the energy transition. This fresh volume examines both established and emerging economic, design, governance, policy and technology related insights and contains contributions from Africa, Asia, Australia, Central Europe and North America.
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.
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.
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
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
Prof Droege/LISD with British Open University stages 3rd Intelligent Environments Webinar
Transport in Intelligent Environments – The end of the tram as we know it?
25th April, 14.00-15.00 GMT
In this webinar we will discuss how transport is being reconfigured by emerging technologies and intelligent environments. Bus Rapid Transit and Trackless Trams are interrogated in the context of transitions to Net Zero, attending to the technical and institutional challenges associated with their introduction.
Speakers:
· Peter Droege, Director of the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development.
· Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University , AO Order of Australia.
· James Warren, Senior lecturer in the School of Engineering and Innovation.
For information and registration, click here.