Events at the CCR

Events in the Summer Semester 2026

Interdisciplinary Lecture Series at the Centre for Climate Resilience

Dr. Anselm Vogler, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)

Date and time: April 30, 2026, 2:00 p.m.

Location: Room 1201/1202, Center for Climate Resilience

Climate change and the global ecosystem crisis pose complex security risks to ecosystems, people, and states. How do these risks arise? How do states respond to them in terms of security policy? What role does the military play in this context? And how can peacebuilding measures influence the tension between climate change and insecurity? This lecture addresses these questions from the perspective of environmental peace and conflict studies.

Dr. Johannes Cullmann, former WMO Director of Water

Date and time: May 7, 2026, 4:00 p.m.

Location: ZWW Auditorium

Prof. Dr. Jan B?rner, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn

Date and time: May 28, 2026, 4:00 p.m.

Location: Room 1201/1202, Center for Climate Resilience

Forest carbon offsets and related (often voluntary) markets have lost credibility, because multiple studies found offset-generating initiatives to have massively underdelivered. Meanwhile certification bodies are revising monitoring and validation methodologies and tropical forest conservation remains severely underfunded. After revisiting the main causes of the credibility crisis, this presentation focusses on technological and institutional conditions that must be in place to rebuild trust in forest carbon initiatives and discusses alternative models for carbon and conservation finance.

Jan B?rner is Professor for Economics of Sustainable Land Use and Bioeconomy at the University of Bonn, Germany and has applied research experience in Latin America, Africa, and Europe. His current research agenda expands from the evaluation and assessment of environmental policies and programs with a focus on land use change to the role of global trade, consumption patterns, and technological change in affecting ecosystem services provision from ecologically sensitive landscapes.

Dr. Charlotte Weatherill, Environmental Politics, University of Manchester

Date and Time: June 17, 2026, 5:30–7:00 p.m.

Location: Room 1201/1202, Center for Climate Resilience

In this talk, Charlotte Weatherill will discuss the politics of climate vulnerability, its roots in colonial and imperial violence, and its relationship with resistance. Her argument is that the politics of climate vulnerability is paternalistic and developmental, building on a conceptualisation of vulnerability that is both racialised and gendered, and built on historical, colonial imaginative geographies and imperial politics.

Drawing on a new book, to be published with Liverpool University Press in 2026/27, this talk will first outline her critique of vulnerability, drawing on feminist arguments around paternalism and victimisation. It will then offer an alternative: a breaking down of vulnerability into the concepts of precarity, which builds on the work of political economists; grievability, which builds on the work of Judith Butler, and ‘islanding’ a resistance concept that builds on Pacific Studies. Taken together, this turns vulnerability discourse on its head and tries to relocate vulnerability within a radical politics of climate action.

The lecture will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Social Sciences.

Dr. Arne Reck, Department of Environmental Law and Public Participation, Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU)

Date and time: June 25, 2026, 2:00 p.m.

Location: Room 1201/1202, Center for Climate Resilience

Climate resilience can only be achieved through the soil—whether in urban climate adaptation or in agriculture. Within the thematic areas of participatory climate adaptation and regenerative agriculture, UfU is working on practical solutions in which soil protection typically plays a central role.
During the presentation, we will introduce our current activities within both thematic areas: from nature-based solutions in the urban context of Berlin to carbon farming approaches in Kazakhstan. We will also explore potential future areas of action—such as how soil protection can be strengthened within the framework of One Health and what exciting opportunities for collaboration this presents.