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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Urban design
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.
Scientific Advisory Board of the SDEWES2026 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
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
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
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 Peter Droege initiates the Global Climate Geodesign Competition
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.
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.
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
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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