Public panel discussion

Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Time: 16:00 CEST
Location: St. Katharinen, Hamburg, Germany

Overview
As part of Hamburg Sustainability Week, The Earth League and Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) welcome the Hamburg community to a panel discussion on how science and collaboration can drive the transformations needed for a thriving future.

As we reach the midpoint of the Decade of Action, the conversation will explore how science can support democratic values and mobilize collective action to navigate global challenges. The session will also invite audience engagement to spark new ideas and contribute to shaping the Earth League’s mission.

Speakers

• Prof. Dr. Kristie Ebi
  Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington
• Prof. Dr. Line Gordon
  Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre; Professor, Stockholm University
• Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström
  Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Co-Chair, The Earth League
• Prof. Dr. Peter Schlosser
  Vice President and Vice Provost of Global Futures, Arizona State University; Co-Chair, The Earth League
• Prof. Dr. Sascha Spoun
  President, Leuphana University Lüneburg

Moderator

• Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob
  Director, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS); Professor, Leuphana University Lüneburg

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP28

Dubai, U.A.E

10 New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024 official press conference

• Date: 3 December 2023
• Time: 16:30 – 17:00 (GMT+4)
• Location: View recording of the press conference here, held UNFCCC Press conference Room 1, Zone B8, Blue Zone, COP28, Dubai U.A.E. 
• Overview: Official UNFCCC press conference presenting the 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024,
  On this day, global experts in social and natural sciences unveil the annual 10 New Insights in Climate Science report. The report equips policymakers with the latest and most pivotal climate science research from the previous 18 months, synthesized to help inform negotiations at COP28 and policy implementation through 2024 and beyond. The 10 New Insights in Climate Science series, launched with the UNFCCC at the COPs since 2017, is a collaborative initiative of Future Earth, the Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme. This year’s report represents the collective efforts of 68 leading researchers from 23 countries.   
• Speakers
  • Oliver Geden, Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs and IPCC WG III Vice-Chair
  • Aditi Mukherji, Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Area Platform CGIAR
  • Ploy Pattanun Achakulwisut, Stockholm Environment Institute and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  • Johan Rockström, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Earth League co-chair
  • Mr. Simon Stiell, UNFCCC Executive Secretary
    

Read the press release here.

10 New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024 panel discussion

• Date: 4 December 2023
• Time: 14:30 local time (GMT+4)
• Location: “Arizona State University Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory^®” Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP28,  Dubai, U.A.E.
• Overview: This session will provide a dynamic platform for rich exchange and engagement on some of the key findings in this year’s 10 New Insights report. It is timed to follow and complement the official release during a UNFCCC press conference. 
• Speakers
  • Sandrine Dixson-Declève, The Club of Rome 
  • Carlos Nobre, Institute for Advanced Studies at University of São Paulo
  • Laura Pereira, University of the Witwatersrand; Stockholm University
  • Johan Rockström, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Earth League
  • Peter Schlosser, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University, Earth League

View the session recording here

10 Must-haves Initiative panel discussion

• Date: Monday, 4 December 2023
• Time: 10:30 am GST (GMT+4) 
• Location: Arizona State University Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP28, Dubai, U.A.E 
• Overview: Dynamic discussion of the “10 Must Haves” initiative, which explores with the urgency required the question: What are the planetary-scale, must-have transformations for global society to halt and reverse the course of our unsustainable actions and enable an acceleration toward a society that lives in harmony with Earth’s systems? Answering that question is the purpose of the “10 Must Haves initiative,” driven by the urgency of the crises humankind faces and awareness that we are on a trajectory to miss many existing targets. An outcome of the Global Futures Conference in New York City in September, this report provides an initial effort across 10 foundational areas to help decision makers in both the public and private sectors lead the necessary changes that we know are possible to provide an opportunity for all to thrive.
• Speakers
  • Alex Dehgan, CEO & Co-Founder, Conservation X Labs. 
  • Maja Groff, International lawyer based in The Hague, Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission
  • Jemilah Mahmood Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health
  • Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Earth League)
  • Peter Schlosser, Vice President and Vice Provost, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University (Earth League)

View the session recording here.

September 19-21, 2023
New York City, Javits Center

The GF23 Global Futures Conference brought together members of the public and private sectors, science and academia, Indigenous communities and youth from around the globe, to actualize bold steps for governments, corporations and multilateral institutions to push the boundaries of discourse on how we can–and must–act to save our planet.

Our world requires humans to act urgently so that we may repair and relieve the stresses we as a global society have placed upon it. In September 2022, GF22 convened with committed global stakeholders who established the 10 Must-haves Initiative, a comprehensive set of Must-have targets with Must-do actions that can lead the change necessary to provide a future where all may thrive. To take the next step, our world needs an engaged and committed alliance of global citizens who have authority and access to see these Must-haves and Must-do’s are implemented. This was the purpose of GF23.

This event is co-convened by the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory based at Arizona State University and Planet, and took place amidst the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week in Manhattan.

https://globalfuturesconference.org/

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP27

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022 official press conference

• Date: Thursday 10 November 2022
• Time: 11.00 am local time EET (Note that this time may be subject to change)
• Location: UNFCCC Press room, COP27 Blue Zone, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
• Overview: Official press conference presenting the 10 New Insights in Climate Science which outlines 10 salient insights from climate change research, stemming mainly from literature published in 2021 and 2022. Taken together, they reveal the complexities of the interactions between climate change and other drivers of risk, such as conflicts, pandemics, food crises and underlying development challenges – pushing us ever closer to breaking past the socioecological limits within which people and ecosystems must remain to be able to thrive.
• Speakers
  • Mr. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
  • Prof. Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Earth League)
  • Prof. Mercedes Bustamante, Department of Ecology, University of Brasilia
  • Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Nigeria
  • Dr. Lisa Schipper, University of Oxford, University of Bonn
  • Dr. Aditi Mukherji, International Water Management Institute, New Delhi
  • Dr. Wendy Broadgate, Global Hub Director (Sweden), Future Earth [moderator]

10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022 panel discussion

• Date: Saturday 12 November 2022
• Time: 3:30 pm local time EET
• Location: “Climate Registry / Pathways to 1.5°C Pavilion”, COP27 Blue Zone, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
• Overview: Dynamic discussion of the topics that comprise the 10 New Insights in Climate Science, coproduced by the Earth League, as pertinent to the COP27 agenda including losses and damages, limits to adaptation, health, vulnerability hot spots and security.
• Speakers
  • Dr. Peter Schlosser, Vice President and Vice Provost, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University (Earth League)
  • Prof. Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Earth League)
  • Mr. Sefanaia Nawadra, Director General, Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
  • Prof. Saleem Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh
  • Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, Professor in the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Future Earth Governing Council Co-Chair
  • Dr. Joyashree Roy, Bangabandhu Chair Professor at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata

10 Must Haves Initiative presentation & panel discussion

• Date: Saturday 12 November 2022
• Time: 4:20 pm local time EET
• Location: “Climate Registry / Pathways to 1.5°C Pavilion”, COP27 Blue Zone, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
• Overview: Dynamic discussion of the “10 Must Haves” initiative, which explores with the urgency required the question: What are the planetary-scale, must-have transformations for global society to halt and reverse the course of our unsustainable actions and enable an acceleration toward a society that lives in harmony with Earth’s systems? Answering that question is the purpose of the “10 Must Haves initiative,” driven by the urgency of the crises humankind faces and awareness that we are on a trajectory to miss many existing targets. An outcome of the Global Futures Conference in New York City in September, this report provides an initial effort across 10 foundational areas to help decision makers in both the public and private sectors lead the necessary changes that we know are possible to provide an opportunity for all to thrive.
• Speakers
  • Dr. Peter Schlosser, Vice President and Vice Provost, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University (Earth League)
  • Prof. Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Earth League)
  • Maja Groff, International lawyer based in The Hague, Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission
  • Dr. Youba Sokona, Special Advisor for Sustainable Development at the South Centre, & former Vice-Chair of the IPCC (2015)
  • Alexandria Villaseñor, Founding Exec. Director of Earth Uprising, & co-founder of U.S. Youth Climate Strike

Fellows convened for the annual Earth League scientific symposium virtually, over two days in October, 2020, joined by students, colleagues, and invited guests. In addition to the topics below, participants engaged in discussions around such questions as, What are we, as scientists, able to say to the world now enduring the shock of COVID-19, and engage more deeply beyond traditional publications about what has to happen in the coming decade and act as a catalyzing force?

• COVID-19: an accidental experiment that improved air quality at the global scale (led by Guy Brasseur)
• COVID-19 modeling research in the Center for Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, related to international collaborative control of COVID-19 in the future (led by Peng Gong)
• Greening the COVID 19 Response, Recovery and Redesign: Building Blocks of a Coherent Planning Framework – Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (led by Takeuchi Kazuhiko and Eric Zusman)
• How will COVID-19 shape our future? (led by Daniela Jacob, Kristie Ebi, and Rachel Warren)
• The decade of transformations – our role as the Earth League (led by Johan Rockstrom)
• Tipping positive change towards the COP26 / UNFCCC objectives (Tim Lenton, Simon Sharpe)
• What is the state of Fridays for Future during the pandemic (isolation), and what is the future of youth climate activism? (Alexandria Villasenor)

3rd of July 2019
Climate Service Center Germany, Hamburg

On the 3rd of July 2019, the annual Earth League meeting took place at the
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) in Hamburg. Earth League
members, Earth Docs and invited guests gathered for a scientific symposium
entitled Towards a 1.5 °C world: Challenges and Solutions.

How can we realise the goals of the Paris Agreement? Led by this overarching question, participants discussed the status in research, technology and society in regard of a just transition towards a sustainable future for Humanity on a healthy Planet Earth. Talks and panel discussions covered aspects such as sustainable infrastructure, societal transformations towards sustainability, the Youth climate movement, and energy systems transformation.