The 10th ISESEA, marking Taiwan's third time to host the symposium, will be organized by the Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC), College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, under the support of ISA RC 24. The symposium will be held from 31 October to 2 November, 2025, under the theme "Transboundary Climate and Environmental Governance in East Asia."

The international Knowledge, Learning, And Societal Change research Alliance (KLASICA) is very pleased to announce the dates and theme of the third KLASICA Taipei symposium. We very cordially invite researchers, policy makers, community activists, and practitioners, who are concerned with societal transformations to sustainable futures in accord with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to join us in this exciting and important symposium.

Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic was formerly Deputy Director General/CEO of IIASA from 2008 to August 2018, and former tenured Professor of Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). Among other positions, Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic is also the Executive Director of The World in 2050 (TWI2050); Member Ad Hoc Informal Multi-stakeholder Technical Group of Advisors on Sustainable Development Goal 7, United Nations; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute from Climate Impact Research (PIK). He was also Member of the United Nations Secretary General Special Advisory 10-Member Group to support the Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM) (2016-2018)

We very cordially invite researchers, policy makers, community activists, and practitioners who are concerned with societal transformations to sustainable futures in accord with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to join us in this exciting and important symposium.

Focus: Core affective narratives of vision and identity that guide and motivate societal change toward sustainable futures and their applicability for modeling social dynamics.

  As in many other countries, Taiwan is suffering from climate change, air pollution, energy problems and so on. These problems are threatening the sustainability of global ecosystem and economic system, not to mention the survival of the human race itself. How can we survive such global risks? If we are ever to reconstruct an ecologically sustainable and socially just society worldwide, we must deal with the issue of “energy transition.”