Headline: Veranstaltungen in 2016

Smart energy systems will play a crucial role in reducing energy-related greenhouse gas emissions to a sustainable level. This task requires the smooth interplay of the electric, gas and thermal networks.

The Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP) is an international scientific cooperative effort to improve the understanding of the intercontinental transport of air pollution across the Northern Hemisphere.

Over the past years, European countries and in particular Germany have taken important steps toward a low-carbon future. Renewables and emerging technologies are expected to play a central role in achieving a meaningful reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions.

The IASS is hosting a Knowledge, Learning, and Societal Change International Research Alliance (www.KLASICA.org) workshop on February 7-9, 2016 on collective behaviour change toward just and equitable sustainable futures.

Pizza, neighbours, elephants, world trade, hunger. What do these things have in common? They all depend on soil. At a quiz show hosted by the IASS Global Soil Forum at the International Green Week in Berlin, you can test your knowledge. Please note that the show will be in German only.

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as those in other parts of the world, a rate that scientific observations and analyses can hardly keep up with. This rapid change represents a challenge for politics, industry and the environment.