Headline: News 2012

The Institute for Sustainability Studies advocates Global Soil Week at the UN’s conference in Rio de Janeiro jointly with partners. Executive Director Dr. Klaus Töpfer participates in high-level group for sustainable forestry yesterday.

30. Mai 2012. The exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft – Future-Project Earth was launched on a tour through 36 cities in Germany and Austria on May 30th. The ship, a 2012 year of

On 18th May 2012, Prof. Carlo Rubbia participated in a special session dedicated to “Transporting electrical energy by superconductivity” organized within the 7th meeting of the “Sharing Knowledge

Potsdam, May 11, 2012. The Italian Ambassador in Berlin, Michele Valensise, hosted the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and the

Mark Lawrence gave a presentation entitled “The Anthropocene – Humans in the Earth System” as part of a panel discussion addressing the United Nations General Assembly’s theme of scientific findings on how human activities are affecting the Earth system.

Potsdam, April 12, 2012. Answers to pressing energy change questions came speedily over online chat today from Dr. Kathrin Goldammer, project manager, and Dr. Dolores Volkert, researcher from the “Transdisciplinary Panel on Energy Change,“ (TPEC) in cooperation with the German Foreign Office. The questions were posed by staff members of international organizations, such as the European Union. The chat took place on the German Federal Government’s online platform “CommIO”, which is overseen by the Foreign Office and has over 1300 members. Ambassador Bernd Bordchardt sat in on the chat session as Foreign Office representative.

"Changing energy communally: Intermediate results and ways to success” is the TPEC opening event with Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer and Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner on March 7th in Berlin.
February 23, 2012. The rapid, encompassing transformation of the energy system targeted by Germany’s energy change will succeed only with a broad, lasting social consensus as its base. This was the finding of Angela Merkel’s ethics commission “Secure Energy Supply” at the end of May, 2011.

Fabruary 14, 2012. The Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, was honored in Japan on Sunday when the Kyoto government administration inducted him into its Earth Hall of Fame. Kyoto selected Töpfer for this distinction in recognition of his many years of outstanding and path-breaking contribution and commitment to sustainability, the circular economy and environmental protection worldwide.