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The Sustainability Research Group is organising a workshop on the influence of research about environmental policy and sustainability on environmental policy decisions.

Members of Die Junge Akademie meet junior researchers from the fields of Data Science and Landscape Ecology. From their disciplinary perspectives, they discuss the challenge of proposing the most sustainable possible concepts for the use of landscapes.

The 7th KlimaLecture of Die Junge Akademie will focus on the meaning and justification of climate protests. How far can protest actually go in a democracy? What is meant by the term civil disobedience? And under what conditions can even radical protest be considered legitimate? After a keynote speech by Robin Celikates, Professor of Social Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and Deputy Director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change, Eva Buddeberg and other members of Die Junge Akademie will discuss these questions with him and the participants of the event.

The ALLEA Working Group on Climate Sustainability in the Academic System invites to a virtual panel discussion. The event offers a preview of the report the working group is preparing on the topic, followed by a panel discussion. The challenges as well as opportunities that lie within academia’s transition to climate sustainability will be addressed, while also highlighting best-practise examples with an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

To the roots. Why is there no decision on what is needed?

"We need a new radicalism in political action" - this is one of the central messages of Bernd Ulrich, deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die ZEIT and co-author of "Noch haben wir die Wahl" (together with Luisa Neubauer, Fridays for Future). But why are decisions not being made on what would be necessary to solve the significant global challenges of our time, such as the climate crisis or the extinction

of species? And how can we achieve the required transformation of all areas of our lives and economies?

Representatives of Die Junge Akademie and the Bavarian Climate Research Network (bayklif) will discuss these and other theses with Bernd Ulrich at a joint event.

The Junge Akademie's KlimaLectures event series focuses on global warming and human factors influencing the Earth's ecosystem. In the fifth event, geoecologist Sönke Zaehle (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry) will give a keynote lecture in which he will report on the 6th cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports and shed light on the development of the current report of Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis). He will then discuss with current and former members of Die Junge Akademie and the participants of the event about current questions on climate change and in particular about the role and challenges of reporting cycles like those of the IPCC in advising politics and society.

Following the successful launch of the event series "KlimaLectures" on the subject of microplastics, Die Junge Akademie invites to the second "KlimaLecture" on the subject of ethics and climate change at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities on Friday, January 24, 2020.

The climate ethicist Dr. Eugen Pissarskoi will reflect on how recommendations for climate policy action should be justified in the light of existing uncertainties.

Lecture by Dr. Thomas Mani and discussion with members of Die Junge Akademie.

Long since plastics have dominated the materials of our everyday life. From toothbrushes to mobile phones to cars - the high plastic content of an almost infinite range of products is obvious. While around 1.5 million tons of plastic were produced globally in the 1950s, today the figure is already over 400 million tons. The more than 250-fold increase within 70 years testifies to an overwhelming triumph on the world market.