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Futures of Sustainability

Dr. Niklas Wagner is a postdoctoral researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and the University of Geneva, working on the politics of knowledge and power in global environmental governance. His research focuses on how legitimacy, inclusivity, and justice are negotiated within the Global...

Der Abend markiert zwei besondere Anlässe: das 70-jährige Jubiläum der Veröffentlichung von Günther Anders’ Hauptwerk "Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen" sowie das Erscheinen der englischsprachigen Übersetzung von Chris Müller, "The Obsolescence of the Human" (University of Minnesota Press) im Dezember 2025.

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Die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen für Klimapolitik haben sich in den vergangenen Jahren spürbar verändert. Nach einer Phase erhöhter Aufmerksamkeit und Reformdynamik prägen heute geopolitische Krisen, wirtschaftliche Unsicherheiten, und ein anti-ökologischer Backlash die öffentliche Debatte...

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois is a researcher at the CNRS and Deputy Scientific Director of the CNRS's Social Sciences and Humanities department, where she is in charge of the Law and Sociology division. She specialises in international environmental law, particularly biodiversity and climate change law, and more recently the...

Despite scientific warnings and accelerating impacts, meaningful political measures to halt environmental destruction and hold corporate polluters accountable remain persistently insufficient. Environmental law, in particular, lags behind the imperative of bringing global development within planetary boundaries. Against...

Noah Walker-Crawford is a publicly engaged researcher who studies climate litigation from a socio-legal perspective. His current research examines how climate change attribution science shapes litigation. Noah holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester. His doctoral research focussed on the moral...