GIB Lecture Series WS 2026/27: "Climate and Capitalism"

Over 10 years on from the Paris Climate Agreement, global emissions remain at record levels. Key climate targets are slipping out of reach whilst reactionary forces are increasingly normalising overshoot and reneging on sustainability agendas. Yet although other topics may be taking political centre stage, the climate crisis remains one of the most pressing and significant challenges of our time.

This year’s GIB Lecture Series therefore examines the complex and constantly evolving interconnections between the ecological crisis and our economic system. We invite experts from a range of fields within geography to discuss how capitalist modes of production and consumption entangle with the climate crisis, reproduce its impacts along uneven lines, and to what extent pathways towards a more sustainable economy are possible within the capitalist economic system.

The full programme is available for download here.

Frühere Lecture Series:

• The Global Agricultural Crisis Wintersemester 19/20

• Verräumlichung der radikalen Rechten Wintersemester 20/21

• Geospatial Big Data and Societal Transformations Wintersemester 21/22

• Räumliche Gerechtigkeit und große Transformation Wintersemester 22/23

• Räume des Krieges Wintersemester 23/24

• Kipppunkte Wintersemester 24/25
  

• Frontiers in Geographical Research Wintersemester 25/26