Climate change represents not only an environmental transformation but a profound social, cultural, economic, political, and legal crisis. This interdisciplinary conference examines how diverse epistemic traditions, governance regimes, economic structures, and normative frameworks shape both the perception and regulation of nature’s transformation. Key themes include the Anthropocene as a conceptual challenge, climate skepticism and scientific authority, cross- cultural configurations of human–nature relations, the politicisation and economisation of nature (including emissions trading), the discourse on the rights of nature, and the philosophical implications of the Gaia hypothesis as a "Verrechtlichung" of nature.
Bringing together natural, social, and cultural sciences, the conference seeks to foster reflexive dialogue on the conceptual foundations of "nature" and to critically assess the conditions for collective action in the face of escalating global crisis.