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Climate change in focus: Expert group fights for the future of the earth!
The University of Freiburg is presenting interdisciplinary lectures on geopolitics and climate policy in October and December 2025.
Climate change in focus: Expert group fights for the future of the earth!
The University of Freiburg has launched a new interdisciplinary program that deals with current developments in international politics, social and legal sciences as well as historical topics. As part of the Colloquium Politicum There will be various lectures covering a wide range of topics.
The program starts on October 16, 2025 with a lecture by Astrid Viciano, who will talk about her book "The Formula of Resistance. How nuclear physicists helped prevent the Nazis' atomic bomb." Shortly afterwards, on October 20th, Prof. Dr. Emanuel Deutschmann discussed the challenges of modern society in his lecture "The Exponential Society. From the end of growth to the stabilization of the world".
Diverse topics of the events
On November 3, 2025, Joseph Croitoru will speak about Hezbollah as Iran's shadow army at the gates of Israel. But the program offers even more: it's about strategic empathy, China competence, migration and Africa's geopolitical positioning. European financing instruments and digital colonialism are also discussed.
- Am 11. Dezember 2025 eröffnet eine vierteilige Veranstaltungsreihe „10 Jahre Pariser Klimaabkommen – Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme“ mit Jürgen Trittin.
- Eine Kooperation mit weiteren Institutionen bringt Vortragsreihen zu Themen wie „Baden-Württemberg wählt: Die Landtagswahl 2026. Mobilisierungen. Mehrheiten. Möglichkeiten. Machtwechsel?“
- Ein weiteres Thema ist „Gemeinsinn in der Krise – Politik zwischen politischem Urteilen und Populismus“ sowie „American Rodeo: Die USA zwischen Show und Schicksal“.
- Zusätzlich wird die Geschichte von Freiburg und der Region während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in einer Bestandsaufnahme untersucht.
International climate policy in focus
In the context of these events, the role of international climate policy is of particular importance. Every year, countries around the world meet in November and December for two-week negotiations to discuss climate policy. These conferences are part of the Multilevel Climate Governance, which operates at both national and global levels.
The urgency of action on climate change is underscored by the fact that global carbon dioxide emissions have tripled over the past three decades. Political discussions about global warming began in the 1970s, but it was not until the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was adopted by 154 states in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, that the issue was seriously addressed internationally.
International climate negotiations and the IPCC report on the state of research in climate science aim to achieve a procedure that is binding under international law. Negotiations are often lengthy because all decisions must be made unanimously. Initiatives such as the International Alliance of Mayors, active since 2008, promote more ambitious agreements and contribute to political attention.