10/15/2025

Lecture series ‘Spaceship Earth—Climate Change’

Chemistry professor Guido Kickelbick and other lecturers at the university are once again inviting students to attend the interdisciplinary lecture series ‘Spaceship Earth—Climate Change’ this winter semester. The public lectures will take place every Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. on the Saarbrücken campus in the new chemistry lecture hall building (Building C4 3, small lecture hall II). Some of the lectures can be also attended online.

The following text has been machine translated from the German with no human editing.

The Earth moves through space like a unique spaceship, and humanity must economise with its limited resources. The interdisciplinary lecture series will examine the interactions between our society and the Earth's ecosystem from an interdisciplinary perspective. The winter semester will focus explicitly on climate protection issues from a scientific, technological, philosophical, sociological, psychological, economic and legal perspective. The lecture series on climate protection and sustainability is open to students of all departments and can be credited in many degree programmes. Interested visitors are also welcome. 

The series begins on Tuesday, 21 October, at 5:15 p.m. with a lecture by Professor Guido Kickelbick (Inorganic Chemistry, UdS) on the topic of ‘Climate-active gases – effects, formation, avoidance’:
Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are the most important climate-active gases (greenhouse gases). In his lecture, Professor Kickelbick will present the scientific principles behind how they work and discuss typical sources of emissions and avoidance scenarios from a scientific perspective.

Some of the lectures can be followed online: Participation link
Here you will find the programme overview.

Further information:
Professor Dr Guido Kickelbick
Chair of Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry
Email: guido.kickelbick@uni-saarland.de
Tel.: 0681 302-70651