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2026 Global Climate Geodesign Competition Finalists

2026 Global Climate Geodesign Competition Finalists

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The inaugural Global Climate Geodesign Competition (GCGC) pilot held its award ceremony on 15 July 2026 at the Esri User Conference in San Diego.


Submissions were invited across open categories, such as cities and regions; countries and bio-regions; unions and groups of countries; and/or coastal and marine areas, maritime regions, Exclusive Economic Zones and the High Seas. The qualitative criteria are functionality, resilience and amenity; and entries were also judged on their quantified impact.


The international Jury comprised oceanographer Professor Dawn Wright (Esri Chief Scientist); forest expert Professor Emeritus William Moomaw (Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Woodwell Climate Research Center); founder of the Ecological Transition Workshop Dr. Panos Mantziaras (Director of the Braillard Foundation); hydrologist Professor Carmen de Jong (University of Strasbourg); and renewable energy autonomy expert Professor Dieter Genske (University of Nordhausen).


Congratulations to the five finalists

LISD @ Esri User Conference UC2026 San Diego

LISD @ Esri User Conference UC2026 San Diego

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Prof. Peter Droege and LISD are currently at the Esri User Conference UC2026 in San Diego, the world’s largest event on Geographic Information Systems, presenting the LISD Climate Planning Method:


On July 11 at 2:30 p.m. local time, he will speak at the Education Summit


On July 14 at 4:00 p.m., he will speak at the “GIS for Good” Demo Theater


On July 15 at 9:00 a.m., he will speak at the Map Gallery—and host the awards ceremony for the Global Climate Geodesign Competition (GCGC), which he/LISD launched last year, in collaboration with the International Geodesign Collaboration IGC, the University of Minnesota UMN, and Esri.


• The Map Gallery also hosts a large special exhibit on the LISD method throughout UC Week.
• At the Expo, LISD and UMN are presenting a display in the GIS for Good section all week long.

Prof. Droege speaks at WEF 2026

Prof. Droege speaks at WEF 2026

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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.

Scientific Advisory Board of the SDEWES2026 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Scientific Advisory Board of the SDEWES2026 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

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Professor Peter Droege has accepted an invitation to join the Scientific Advisory Board of the August 30 to September 2026 SDEWES2026 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems in Gran Canaria. This is now the 21st Latin American event of this successful series of international environmental infrastructure conferences. It is associated with the Journal on Sustainable Development. Prof. Droege has been a reviewer for over a number of years.

LISD AG is appointed Partner of Esri

LISD AG is appointed Partner of Esri

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Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development AG is appointed Partner of Esri, the Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., largest and oldest provider of software systems for geospatial analysis and planning. LISD is the first and so far only Esri Partner in Liechtenstein, and as an organization part of Esri Switzerland and associated with Esri Germany. LISD has innovated the Spatial Climate Action System that forms the core of the Global Climate Geodesign Challenge and its current Competition, aimed at leveraging geospatial design and planning decisions to help stabilize the global climate.

Latest Urban Energy Transition Edition

Latest Urban Energy Transition Edition

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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.

More info and to order.

Prof Peter Droege initiates the Global Climate Geodesign Competition

Prof Peter Droege initiates the Global Climate Geodesign Competition

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Invitation to educational institutions around the world to submit GIS-based climate mitigation designs through local and regional climate-positive scenario modeling. The initiative commenced in early September. LISD in association with the International Geodesign Collaboration, the University of Minnesota and Esri.


Registrations are now open and submissions are due 15 June 2026. For more information and registration details please contact GC@eurisd.org.


BRIEF UPDATE

Prof Droege speaks at the GIS for a Sustainable World plenary

Prof Droege speaks at the GIS for a Sustainable World plenary

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On 2 May 2023 Prof Droege speaks at Esri’s ‘Our Interconnected Future’ event about GIS as Global Commons, prospective GIS applications and present roles in crisis zones and the promise of the Global Climate Geodesign Challenge, a two-year, Esri supported project potentially involving more than 250 Universities and organisations worldwide pursuing climate relevant projects and gauging their global impact.

Our interconnected future

‘The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires urgent and collaborative action—across all geographies and sectors—to ensure that none are left behind in our interconnected world. Discover how a geographic approach to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides the insights needed to accelerate our collective impact.’

For more information:

Overview

Plenary

LISD Partner of the Global Climate Geodesign Challenge

LISD Partner of the Global Climate Geodesign Challenge

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The International Geodesign Collaborative (IGC), together with LISD GmbH and Geodesignhub Pvt. Ltd. in partnership and sponsored by Esri Inc has launched the Global Climate Geodesign Challenge (GC2).

The GC2 aims to help global and local decision-makers make strategic climate-based decisions which create enormous long-term benefits for local communities and the world at large. The challenge will undertake climate-responsive spatial designs accommodating many participants, using negotiated collaborations for improved planning and decision-making.

The IGC https://www.igc-geodesign.org/ is inviting local teams – university educators and students, professionals, and non-governmental organisations – to submit their proposals.

For more info: https://www-igcollab.hub.arcgis.com/pages/global_challenge.

New publication: Intelligent Environments Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet

New publication: Intelligent Environments Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet

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Intelligent Environments: Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet, is the second volume of books edited by Peter Droege across the genre of digital innovation within cities, buildings and communities. This latest volume asks: how does civilization approach thinking systems, intelligent spatial models, design methods, and support structures designed for sustainability, in ways that could counteract challenges to terrestrial habitability?


This book examines a range of baseline and benchmark practices but also unusual and even sublime endeavors across regions, currencies, infrastructure, architecture, transactive electricity, geodesign, net-positive planning, remote work, integrated transport, and artificial intelligence in understanding the most immediate spatial setting: the human body.


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