Who pays the price for the climate crisis?An interdisciplinary discussion on social-ecological policy (or the lack thereof)

23 November 2025

When and where: December 3, 2025, 5:15 p.m. in Lecture Hall ESA C at the University of Hamburg (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hamburg)

Organized by: WELRISCC – Welfare State Responses to Social Risks in Times of Climate Change Project

We want to discuss the link between extreme weather and social injustice from our different perspectives. We will then discuss the role of research in eco-social transformation processes and how this relates to other political approaches.

The climate crisis is omnipresent and well known. The weather is becoming increasingly extreme: more floods, temperature differences of more than 15 degrees in a week, and sometimes no rain for ages. Our everyday lives have also changed; there are no more plastic bags in supermarkets and drinking bottles now have permanent caps. But is that really the solution? Most people have completely different problems: real wages are falling steadily, the welfare state is being further decimated, and migration rights are being weakened. Perhaps this is related to the climate crisis after all? Why and what social policy has to do with it, what different approaches to eco-social policy exist, and what research is needed for a socio-ecological transformation will be discussed on December 3, 2025, at 5:15 p.m. in the ESA C lecture hall with Katharina Zimmermann, Leonard Borchert, Jan Rübke, Plural Economics, and the Hamburg Future Decision Initiative.

The discussion will be held in German.