Program for the 6th Annual JCT conference: Climate change and the Future of Democracy 9.07.2026 Place: University of Potsdam, Campus Griebnitzsee 09:30-09:45 Welcome 09:45-10:45 Andreas Føllesdal (University of Oslo): The…

JCT Work-in-Progress Seminar Spring 2026 6.2.26 Levi Tenen (Virginia Wesleyan University): Who should own America’s public lands The federal government owns more than a quarter of the land in the…

September, 5th: Eric Brandstedt (Lund University): The Argument from Legitimate Expectations and a liberal conservative theory of social change Lukas Meyer has together with co-authors in several articles argued that…

Workshop Climate Ethics in Heidelberg, 17-18/11/2025 We are pleased to announce that we will hold a workshop on Climate Ethics on November 17 and 18, 2025 at the University of Heidelberg (Germany),…

GAP.12 Satellite Workshop: Climate Ethics Under Conditions of Increasing Non-Compliance, 12. September 2025; 09:00-18:30 We are pleased to invite you to participate in the workshop “Climate Ethics Under Conditions of…

Just Climate Transition Network – Annual Workshop Climate Change and Vulnerability Tuesday June 17th – Haus 1 – Room H02 13:20 Welcome 13:30 Josep Recasens Subias: Conditional Compensation for Climate…

Work-in-Progress Seminar Spring 2025 March, 7: Megan Blomfield (University of Sheffield): Climate Change adaptation in UK protected landscapes: alternative approaches and questions of value In this perspective piece we consider…

CfP: Climate change and vulnerability – 5th annual Just Climate Transitions Conference University of Potsdam 17 and 18 June 2025 This year’s Just Climate Transitions conference focuses on questions of…

New publication on deliberative mini publics and climate policy published Fabian Schuppert and Janina Walkenhorst published a new article in 2025: “What is the added value of deliberative mini publics…

4th Annual JCT Workshop: Sustainability in the Anthropocene – June 11-12, 2024 @ University of Potsdam  Location: University of Potsdam, Campus Griebnitzsee, House 7 Room 0.13 To receive the pre-circulated…

Work-in-Progress Series/ Reading Group Spring 2024 Just Transitions Reading Group (1:30-2:30PM (GMT+1)) 2.2.24 Marie Wuth (Hamburg University): Circular Politics: Potentials, Limits and Boundaries of an Arendtian Nature-Politics The pressing problems…

KIT Lecture Series on Normative Energy Ethics – online (Zoom) As a follow up to the first Normative Energy Ethics Workshop held in November 2021, the research group Philosophy of…

Conference “Territory and Climate” – December, 12-13, 2023 @ University of Tromso Deadline for abstracts: October, 1st Climate change transforms territory and the environmental and social pressures on it in…

Work-in-Progress Series/ Reading Group Fall 2023 Just Transitions Reading Group (1:30-2:30PM (GMT+1)) 1.09.23 Francisco Garcia-Gibson (National Research Council  of Argentina): Moral Objections to Arguments for New Fossil-Fuel Developments in High-Poverty…

Policy Paper: The Governance of Climate Strategies in Metropolitan Cities Janina Walkenhorst, Tomás Vellani, Franziska Oehlert, Prof. Dr. Fabian Schuppert and Prof. Dr. Sabine Kuhlmann have written a new policy…

Work-in-Progress Series/ Reading Group Spring 2023 Just Transitions Reading Group (1:30-2:30PM (GMT+1)) 03.03.23 Lukas Tank (Kiel University): The Unfair Burdens Argument Against Carbon Pricing Carbon pricing is one of the…

3rd Annual JCT Workshop: Future Paths for staying within the planetary boundaries – June 2-3, 2023 @ University of Potsdam The workshop is the third in a series of annual…

2nd Annual JCT Workshop: Just transitions in a changing climate – September, 12th, 2022 @ Campus Griebnitzsee, 3.06.S16 Program 09:30 – 09:45 Welcome (Fabian Schuppert, Kerstin Reibold) 09:45 – 10:45…

Metropolitan cities around the world are crucial for successfully addressing climate change. Large cities face challenges related to climate change and aim to find public policy solutions that meet criteria…

An opportunity for collaboration and knowledge exchange for researchers and practitioners of just transition at the city level. About this event Cities are increasingly a focal point for climate action…

1st Annual JCT-Workshop: Grounding climate change – land, environment, and the green future – January, 13th/14th, 2022, 4-7 PM (GMT+1) The workshop will discuss conceptualizations of and theories about land,…

Scroll down for English Den ersten Vortrag der Vorlesungsreiche „Klimawandel/Gesellschaftswandel“ hielt Dr. Mareike Blum vom Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change über die diskursive Legitimierung und Mitbestimmung…

Vorlesungsreihe (lecture series) „Klimawandel/Gesellschaftswandel – Gerechtigkeit in Zeiten des Klimawandels“ @ Uni Potsdam  Mi, 03.11.21 – Dr. Mareike Blum (vor Ort): Diskursive Legitimierung und Mitbestimmung in der Klimapolitik Mi, 24.11.21…

The reading group welcomes anyone interested in discussing and presenting papers around the central topics of JCT. The current members come from different disciplines and we take turns presenting and…