Headline: Events in 2015

In September 2015, Member States of the United Nations will agree and adopt the post‐2015 development agenda comprised of a set of universally applicable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Together with the Alfred Wegener Institute and Jade University of Applied Sciences, the IASS will hold a stakeholder workshop in Potsdam with experts from science and civil society on 11 and 12 May.

The rush for resources from the deep sea is on: Enabled by technological advances and driven by geopolitical, economic and scientific motivations, state and non-state actors alike are increasingly venturing to the edges of the continental shelves and into areas beyond national jurisdiction in sea

Investments from the EU and its member states into the Blue Economy continue to be on the rise.

The IASS is initiating and facilitating a Series of Critical Dialogues on the practicalities of implementing the new urban agenda – and its possible constraints – in the political context of Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on

Focussing on the theme of “Soil. The Substance of Transformation”, the third Global Soil Week will take place in Berlin from 19 to 23 April 2015.

This collaborative invitation-only expert meeting is part of the IASS deep-sea mining (DSM) project, which was launched at the 2014 Potsdam Ocean Governance Workshop.

The IASS in cooperation with its partners will hold the second event in the Arctic Discussion Series on “Achievements and Ways Ahead for Advancing Arctic Sustainability – The Canadian and US Chairmanships of the Arctic Council (2013-2017)” on 14 April 2015 at the Canadian Embass

As part of the Geo.X conference 2015, experts from the geosciences and risk research, as well as stakeholders from politics, economy, and  authorities develop recommendations how prospective georisk research can contribute effectively to the