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.
Sustainable development
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
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
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.
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.
Lecture at the 2024 International 100% Renewable Energy Conference
18 April at 10.30 Eastern European Summer Time (EEST)
Prof. Droege speaks at the International 100% Renewable Energy Conference in Istanbul, on the topic:
100 % Renewable is Not Enough
For more information and program
Prof. Droege presents lecture at Sai University
17 April at 1845 Indian Standard Time
Prof. Peter Droege presents lecture at Chennai’s prestigious Sai University, in the Global Challenges colloquium at the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Computing & Data Science and School of Law, on the topic:
Fast Forward To Extinction?:
How it may just still be possible to survive our own success
LISD-Silesian Botanical Garden Partnership Project Conference
Final Conference from 10 to 12 April 2024
Mikołów for Climate –
implementation of investments in the field of Blue and Green infrastructure in the city
Funded under the EEA Iceland Liechtenstein Norway Grants
Project Website
Conference Website & Program