
IAPG organizes seminars or sessions/symposia on geoethics in meetings, conferences, congresses, encouraging a wide participation of the scientific and professional community in the discussion on geoethical topics.
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Events
Events organized in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023
26 November - 1 December 2023
Santiago (Chile)
Geoethics at the XVI CGCh
THE CALL FOR ABSTRACT IS OPEN (deadline: 31 May 2023)
XVI Chilean Geological Congress "New challenges for an evolving territory”
Thematic Area 6 (AT6): Geosciences and Society
Session AT6-6 Geoethics: Experiences and case studies in Chile
Conveners: Luisa Pinto Lincoñir, Hernán Bobadilla Rodríguez
Description:
The role of geoethics is to investigate and reflect upon the values and principles that support appropriate human interactions with the earth system. Geoethics is multidisciplinary and its field of analysis and action is defined by the need to identify common values based on geoscientific knowledge, which is essential to recognize our role in the sustainability of the human-Earth system. There are 4 domains of interaction: individual, interpersonal, social and environmental. These domains involve different degrees of responsibility and a series of values for the achievement of ethical actions to achieve the ideals of justice, consciousness, and respect for the Earth (https:/ /www.geoethics.org).
This session welcomes contributions that highlight geoethical issues in terms of values and principles in: (1) Dilemmas within the individual and/or interpersonal spheres of scientific and professional work; (2) Successful or unsuccessful cases, projects, studies, and activities with social or environmental impact in Chile (e.g., education, outreach, geoheritage, and geological risk management). Contributions accepted for this session will have the possibility of being included in the edition of a book on geoethics cases in Chile. This session is sponsored by the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG).
Abstract submission: https://dev.4id.cl/congresogeologico2022/en/platform-for-registration-and-submission-of-abstracts/
XVI CGCh website: https://dev.4id.cl/congresogeologico2022/en/at6-6-geoethics-experiences-and-case-studies-in-chile/
14-17 November 2023
Florence (Italy)
Geoethics at the 6th WLF
THE CALL FOR ABSTRACT IS OPEN (deadline: 28 February 2023)
6th World Landslide Forum "Landslide Science for Sustainable Development"
Theme 1 - Session 1.5
Ethical, social and cultural aspects/implications in landslide risk management
Conveners: Peter T. Bobrowsky, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Giuseppe Di Capua, Claudio Margottini, Silvia Peppoloni
Session description:
The science and practice of landslide research primarily aims to better understand the nature, distribution, and behavior of all types of landslides under a broad range of conditions and across the widest spectra of environments. Landslide research further aims to use this understanding to ensure that the health and well-being of individuals, communities, societies and the related socio-cultural structure, such as critical infrastructure, is secure through disaster risk management, including education, preparedness and best practices deployed in a timely and professional manner. By definition, landslide related studies are often subject to many factors that can negatively influence the impartiality, transparency, inclusivity, and standards of conduct of individuals. Today more than ever before, landslide researchers need to critically evaluate all stages of their work from site selection, project goals, participation, output dissemination, quality control, data sharing, authorship, accountability, and other issues based on a foundation of ethical values and practice. This session provides an opportunity to present and discuss a suite of topics, case studies and strategies that are germane to ethical landslide research. We encourage practitioners to submit contributions related to landslide ethics as examples include conflicts of interest, gender/ageism biases, questionable peer reviewing, breaches of standards, work safety avoidance, developed country favoritism, information hoarding, rumor impacts, social media abuse, limiting education, and respecting privacy are but a few examples of the many ethical issues that can impede the positive growth and progress in landslide studies.
This session is sponsored by the International Association for Promoting Geoethics – IAPG.
- Abstract submission: https://wlf6.org/submission/
24-28 October 2023
Safi (Morocco)
Geoethics in Morocco
10th International Conference of the African Association of Women in Geosciences
1st International Congress on Geodiversity, Geoheritage, Geotourism, Geoeducation, Geoparks & Sustainable Development Goals (5G & SDGs)
Title of the event “Geoheritage, a new geotouristic niche to explore for an inclusive sustainable development”
Theme 1 - Geoheritage, Geoconservation, Museology & Geoethics.
Ezzoura Errami (IAPG Continental Coordinator for Africa) is conference chair; Peter T. Bobrowsky (IAPG Vice President), Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General), Margaret Brocx (IAPG Continental Coordinator for Oceania), Ezzoura Errami (IAPG Continental Coordinator for Africa), Mamoon Allan (IAPG-Jordan Coordinator), Antoneta Seghedi (IAPG-Romania Co-coordinator), José Brilha (IAPG Task Group on Geoethics and Geoheritage) are members of the Scientific Committee of this event.
27-30 June 2023
Perth (Australia)
Geoethics at the AESC 2023
THE CALL FOR ABSTRACT IS OPEN (deadline: 1 March 2023)
Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) 2023
Session
Geoethics to responsibly manage local and global challenges of our times
Conveners: Silvia Peppoloni, Peter T. Bobrowsky, John Ludden, Sandra Villacorta Chambi
Session co-organized by: IAPG and IUGS.
Session description: Geoscience knowledge and expertise are essential to address a wide range of the most pressing social-environmental concerns, inform decision-making, and guide education at all levels. All branches of geosciences have cultural, social and ethical implications. Hence, geoscientists face ethical issues in their professional and civic roles. Geoscientists are becoming increasingly aware of their ethical responsibilities to serve society and foster public trust in geosciences. Geoethics aims to provide a common framework to responsibly manage questions such as geo-resources, geological risks, pollution, geoheritage, as well as geoscience-society-policy interaction and relationships with Indigenous communities. This session aims to nourish the discussion on appropriate behaviours and practices, also through case-studies, wherever human activities interact with the Earth system.
This session is included in the theme: Critical role of geoscience in Australia's future
Abstract submission: https://aesc2023.com.au/abstract-submission/
23-28 April 2023
Vienna (Austria)
Geoethics at the EGU 2023
Session EOS4.1
Geoethics: Geoscience Implications for Professional Communities, Society, and Environment
Conveners: Silvia Peppoloni, Louise Mimeau, Giuseppe Di Capua
Session co-organized by BG8/CL3/ERE1/GM13/NH9/OS5 and co-sponsored by IAPG
Session EOS2.3: Climate and ocean education: Geoethics, emergency, fossil fuels, war and more
Conveners: David Crookall, Giuseppe Di Capua, Svitlana Krakovska, Bärbel Winkler, Dean Page
Session co-organized by CL3/OS5 and co-sponsored by IAPG and Future Earth
Details about these sessions and abstract submission at:
11-15 April 2023
Ankara (Turkey)
Geoethics at the 75th GCT
THE CALL FOR ABSTRACT IS OPEN (deadline: 31 January 2023)
Session “Sustainable use of georesources (including mines, water and energy resources) and geoethics” at the 75th Geological Congress of Turkey, organized by the Union of Chambers of Turkish Architects and Engineers Chamber of Geological Engineers (TMMOB-JMO).
Conveners: Yüksel Örgün Tutay (IAPG-Turkey Co-coordinator), Dündar Çağlan (IAPG-Turkey Co-coordinator), M.Cemal Göncüoğlu.
Session description (pdf file):
https://www.jmo.org.tr/resimler/ekler/da6dc071ad64a76_ek.pdf
Congress website:
14-15 February 2023
Belfast (UK)
IAPG at the 78th IUGS EC meeting
IAPG is represented by Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) and Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) at the 78th Executive Committee meeting of the IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences.

19 January 2023
IAPG-Peru General Assembly
Online event
IAPG-Peru organizes its first general assembly to discuss the plan of activity 2023, to inform about activities of task groups and the students group and to report about MinerLima 2022.

17 January 2023
Meeting IAPG-CIPSH
Online event
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) and Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) have a meeting with Luiz Oosterbeek (President of the CIPSH - International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences) to discuss about future joint initiatives for developing and promoting geoethics.

16 December 2022
19:00 (GMT-5)
Women in Geosciences in Peru
Online event
IAPG-Peru co-organizes the 3rd Meeting of Peruvian Women in Geosciences (in Spanish: "3er Conversatorio de Mujeres Peruanas en Geociencias"). In this meeting IAPG-Peru discusses about details of the event to be organized in 2023.
1 December 2022
13:30 (GMT+4:30)
Webinar co-organized by IAPG-Afghanistan
Online event
IAPG-Afghanistan co-organizes the Webinar “Making Groundwater Visible in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions” to celebrate the Groundwater Summit 2022 with the Afghanistan Groundwater Group (AGG), the Portuguese Chapter of the IAH (AIH-GP).
Mohammad Salem Hussaini and Asadullah Farahmand (IAPG-Afghanistan Co-coordinators) are among the moderators of the event. Manuel Abrunhosa (IAPG Board of Experts) is one of the speaker.
For attending this webinar, please register before the end of November by using the following link: http://bit.ly/3USHABv
23-27 November 2023
Lima (Peru)
MinerLima 2022
This is the 8th edition of the International Minerals and Rocks Exhibition in Lima (Peru), organized by IAPG-Peru.
MinerLima is an event to disseminate the Peruvian mineralogical heritage, through an exhibition of minerals and rocks, short courses, conferences and workshops (for children and the general public), geological excursions and even more. The most important goal of this event is to educate the Peruvian citizens on geoscience as well as to create links between the geoscience community and society.
MinerLima is organized by IAPG-Peru at the Parque Alfredo Salazar, Miraflores, Lima. Everybody is invited to be part of this event. The entrance is free.
After the official inauguration of MinerLima 2022 on 10 June 2022, conferences on geoethics, deontology in geosciences, geology, crystallography, petrology, litho-geochemistry, paleontology have been held by experts, among them the event "The new Socio-environmental Challenges in Las Bambas Mining" ("Los nuevos Retos Socio-ambientales en la Minera Las Bambas", in Spanish) held on 30 September 2022 at Museo de Minerales Andrés del Castillo in Lima.
In addition, with the support of the IAPG-Peru student chapters, workshops and competitions for school children on the Universe, volcanoes, earthquakes, mass movements, minerals and the identification of rocks have been organized. The have already been studied, soon the theme will include. Students were also involved in choosing the mascot of MinerLima 2022 through a public contest.
Among the other activities planned there is a field trip that will be announced on the official Facebook page of the “Feria Internacional de Minerales de Lima”: https://www.facebook.com/feriainternacionalmineraleslima.
Details about the program are available on the MinerLima website:
https://minerlima.wixsite.com/minerlima
MinerLima 2022 and IAPG-Peru wait you in Lima!
9 November 2022
10:00-17:30 (CET)
IAPG at the DDE Open Science Forum
Paris (France)
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) represents the IAPG at the Deep-Time Digital Earth (DDE) Open Science Forum, that is held in Paris (France) at the UNESCO Headquarters.
Silvia is panelist of the Technical Session 4 "Geo-literacy: raising public awareness and societal relevance of geosciences".
8 November 2022
20:00 (EET)
Event organized by IAPG-Greece
IAPG-Greece and SafeGreece organize an online event on the topic "Public communication of seismic hazard issues and geoethical dilemmas”.
Gerasimos A. Papadopoulos, scientific associate of UNESCO, President of SafeGreece and IAPG-Greece Co-coordinator delivers a keynote speech. The President of the Hellenic Geological Society, Dr. Athanasios Ganas, Director of Research at the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, and the President of the Anti-Seismic Planning and Protection Organization, Dr. Efthymis Lekkas, Professor of the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, NKUA, give a foreword. The event is coordinated by Maria Triantaphyllou, Professor of the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, NKUA, and IAPG-Greece Co-coordinator. During this event a short video on "Geoethics and geological risks" (by Silvia Peppoloni, IAPG Secretary General) is projected.
13-14 October 2022
Celebration in India of the International Geoethics Day 2022
Online workshop entitled "Nurturing Geodiversity: A Road to Sustainable Development", organized by the Geological Survey of India to celebrate the 1st International Day of Geodiversity and the 6th International Geoethics Day. This is a run up event to the yearlong celebration (up to August 2023) of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav commemorating 75 years of Indian Independence.
Venue: Conference Hall, Geological Survey of India, CHQ, 15 Kyd Street, Kol-16/ online.
13 October 2022
Geoethics at an IUGS Earth Sciences Festival event
Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) gives a talk at the event "Geoscience Solutions for Net Zero", organized by the IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences for its Earth Sciences Festival. Giuseppe's talk is entitled "Geoethics of advocacy in addressing society’s greatest challenges".
From 12:00 to 2:20 PM (BST): 11 x short talks by leading science, policy and energy experts.
From 2:20 PM to 3:20 PM (BST): panel discussions closed and open.
Programme and registration:
13 October 2022
International Geoethics Day 2022
6th edition of this event that is celebrated worldwide, during the Earth Science Week and the month of the Global Ethics Day.
Theme of the event: promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Hashtag: #geoethicsday2022
13 October 2022
Celebration in Italy of the International Geoethics Day 2022
Webinar entitled "Geoethics without borders: Transdisciplinary visions for sustainability", organized by the Department of Earth Sciences at the Turin University and IAPG-Italy/Section of Geoethics and Geological Culture of the Italian Geological Society.
16:00-19:00 CEST
13 October 2022
Celebration in Peru of the International Geoethics Day 2022
Webinar in Peru to celebrate the International Geoethics Day 2022, organized by IAPG-Peru. 3 speakers give talks about geoethics to axchieve the sustainable development goals, the importance to have geologists working in each municipality, and geoethics and social management with reference to native communities. This event is in Spanish.
16:00-19:00 (PET)
13 October 2022
Celebration in Morocco of the International Geoethics Day 2022
Event onsite organized at the Polydisciplinary Faculty, Cadi Ayyad University, Safi, Morocco to celebrate the International Geoethics Day 2022.
13 October 2022
Celebration in India of the International Geoethics Day 2022
Webinar entitled "Advocating Geoethics for SFDRR, SDGs, and CCA", organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, in collaboration with the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics and Adamas University (West Bengal, India), to celebrate the International Geoethics Day 2022.
Hour: 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm (IST); 08:30 am - 10:30 am (GMT)
13 October 2022
Celebration in Bangladesh of the International Geoethics Day 2022
Onsite event organized by IAPG-Bangladesh to celebrate the International Geoethics Day 2022.
Discussion Theme: promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Venue: Shaheed Mokleshur Rahman Auditorium, Geological Survey of Bangladesh.
Hour: 14:00 (BST)

13 October 2022
Celebration in New Zealand of the International Geoethics Day 2022
Webinar entitled "International Geoethics Day Seminar", organized by the Geoscience Society of New Zealand. This event explores topics relating to ethics in the geosciences in honour of International Geoethics Day on October 13th. In a panel of three speakers each gives a short 20 min talk, followed by time for questions and discussion.
10-11 October 2022
Celebration in India of the International Geoethics Day 2022
Special Twin Event to celebrate the 1st International Geodiversity Day and the 6th International Geoethics Day, entitled "Geoheritage Conservation and Geoethics", at the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India.
- Day 1 (10 Oct.): 9:15 am IST | 8 hours 45 minutes
- Day 2 (11 Oct.): 10:30 am to 1:40 pm IST
21 September 2022
10:00-12:00 (GMT-4)
Geoethics seminar in Chile
IAPG-Chile/Geoethics Group of SGCh organizes the fourth seminar of the series "Towards the construction of Chilean Geoethics Code".
This event is in Spanish and is held online by using the software Zoom.
This seminar is entitled "From the contribution to the training of new generations of scientists and professionals in geosciences".
Speakers (among brackets, the titles of talks):
- Sandra Villacorta (The importance of geoethics in the geological engineering career)
- Reynaldo Charrier (Ethics and deontology in the training of geoscientists)
13 September 2022
3:45-5:00 pm CEST
Geoethics at the GeoMinKöln 2022
Cologne (Germany)
Session 10.2 "Geoethics – fostering ethical perspectives in Geosciences"
Conveners: Dominic Hildebrandt (IAPG-Germany co-coordinator), Simon Schneider (IAPG-Germany co-coordinator), Martin Bohle (IAPG Board of Experts)
Session description: Geoethics is a dynamically evolving concept framing various kinds of ethical aspects of Geoscience activities. As an expression of critical thinking and taking responsibility, Geoethics is fundamental to all kinds of Geoscience subdisciplines, however raising different types of questions and problems depending on the specific context. Many of these are intimately linked to specialties of our discipline, e.g. its historically male-dominated character as well as a strong focus on field work. With this session we aim to provide a platform for current works featuring critical analysis of 1) geoscience history and its implications, 2) intra-scientific issues such as gender inequalities or racism, 3) working methods and their implications for the environment, research objects and local communities, 4) geoscientists' work at the interface to society, politics and other stakeholders including geocommunication and geoeducation. We encourage you to submit your work to our session even if your specific topic is not covered above, but has a geoethical dimension.
31 August - 2 September 2022
Course on Geoethics in Peru
IAPG-Peru organizes an online course on geoethics for MinerLima 2022. The course is entitled "The exercise of geoethics and deontology in geosciences".
This event is in Spanish and is supported by CERSEU FIGMMG UNMSM - Student Chapter IAPG UNMSM - GEIPEE UNMSM.
24 August 2022
10:00-12:00 (GMT-4)
Geoethics seminar in Chile
IAPG-Chile/Geoethics Group of SGCh organizes the third seminar of the series "Towards the construction of Chilean Geoethics Code".
This event is in Spanish and is held online by using the software Zoom.
This seminar is entitled "The relationship of geosciences with society".
Speakers (among brackets, the titles of talks):
- Felipe Orellana (Geology and Transdisciplinarity: Governance Strategies at the community level in the Anthropocene Epoch)
- Vladimir Vicencio (The case of the Municipality of Petorca and the Office of Water Affairs)
- Paula Ramos (Geology, the Science that Studies the Patta'hoiri - Mother Earth)
15 August 2022
14:00-15:30 GMT-4
Geoethics at the AGU Chapman Conference
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Headquarter
Washington D.C., USA
Room 325 (inperson event)
Title: Geoethics and Diversity Reading Seminar
Chair: Rachel E. Bernard
Description: In this reading session, participants will be discussing a review article on the field of geoethics: “The intersection of geoethics and diversity in the geosciences,” by Mogk, in Geoethics: Status and Future Perspectives (eds. Di Capua et al.), The Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 2020. Participants will be expected to have read (some or all of) this article prior to the conference, so that they may engage fully in the discussion.
28 July 2022
10:00-12:00 (GMT-4)
Geoethics seminar in Chile
IAPG-Chile/Geoethics Group of SGCh organizes the second seminar of the series "Towards the construction of Chilean Geoethics Code".
This event is in Spanish and is held online by using the software Zoom.
This seminar is entitled "On geoscience and its relationship with nature and culture".
Speakers (among brackets, the titles of talks):
- Sebastián Ureta (Worlds of gray and green: Rethinking mineral extraction as an ecological practice)
- Verónica Oliveros (Community-scale geology)
15 July 2022
Invited speech on geoethics
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) delivers an online invited speech, entitled "Geoethics and Oceans: Challenges and Opportunities" at the 6th International Summer University (Webinar) on "Oceans, People and Cooperation for Sustainable Development" of the UNESCO Chair on Geoparks, Sustainable Developments and Healthy Lifestyles at the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
20 June 2022
Keynote speech on geoethics at the CGEO 2022 in Portugal
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) delivers an online keynote speech, entitled "Geosciences to achieve UN SDGs: The need for geoethics" at the CGEO 2022 Conference.
This event is organized by the Centro de Geociências of the Coimbra University (Portugal) at the Centro Cultural “Elvino Pereira”, Mação (20 June 2022).
10 June 2022
6:30 pm GMT-5
Launch of MinerLima 2022 by IAPG-Peru
Launch of the 8th edition of the Mineralogical Exhibition of Peru (MinerLima 2022).
This year the coordinator of this important event will be César Chacaltana (IAPG-Peru, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, INGEMMET).
During MinerLima 2022 courses and conferences, seminars and roundtables, excursions and guided tours, workshops for students, technological, minerals, rocks and fossils exhibitions will be included in the programme.
6-9 June 2022
IAPG supports the Oxford Geoheritage Virtual Conference 2022
The Oxford Geoheritage Virtual Conference (OxGVC) is held online, is free to attend, and open to all!
This event is supported by the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics.
Check out the website for more information: https://www.oxgvc.co.uk/
28 May 2022
2:30-2:50 pm CEST
Talk on geoethics in Germany
Dominic Hildebrandt gives a talk (in German), entitled "Geoethik – kritisches Denken der Problemlöser*innen von morgen" (Geoethics – critical thinking of problem solvers of tomorrow), in the framework of the Bundesfachschaftentagung in Halle an der Saale (Germany). The Bundesfachschaftentagung is a meeting, where student representatives in the Geosciences from Germany, Austria and Switzerland come together for several days to exchange thoughts on student affairs. This time the event is held together with the student representatives in Geography.
26 May 2022
Keynote on geoethics to face natural risks at NatHaz22
Silvia Peppoloni gives a keynote, entitled "Geoethics to face natural risks by improving societal resilience", at the International Workshop on Natural Hazards (NatHaz22) under the theme "Volcanic Risks" to be held in Angra do Heroísmo, in Terceira island (Azores), on the 26th and 27th of May 2022.
26-27 May 2022
2nd Peruvian Conference on Geotechnics
IAPG-Peru co-organizes this online event. Theme "Geological Engineering and Civil Engineering: Building the Future".
23-24 May 2022, Vienna (Austria)
Geoethics at the EGU 2022
Session EOS4.1: Geoethics in the face of global anthropogenic changes: how do we intersect different knowledge domains?
24 May 2022, 13:20–16:34 (CEST), Room 1.14
Conveners: Silvia Peppoloni, Giuseppe Di Capua, John Ludden, Luiz Oosterbeek, Pimnutcha Promduangsri, Billy Williams
Chairpersons: Eduardo Marone, Pimnutcha Promduangsri
Session sponsored by the IAPG, AGU, CIPSH, IUGS
Session EOS1.8: Climate & ocean literacy: Helping people to care ethically within planetary boundaries
24 May 2022, 17:00–18:30 (CEST), Room 1.14
Conveners: David Crookall, Giuseppe Di Capua, Bärbel Winkler, Mario Mascagni, Francesca Santoro
Chairpersons: Giuseppe Di Capua, Bärbel Winkler, David Crookall
Session sponsored by the IAPG
Townhall Meeting TM8: Exploring the nexus of geoethics and climate change education
24 May 2022, 19:00–20:00 (CEST), Room 1.14
Conveners: Giuseppe Di Capua, David Crookall, Bärbel Winkler, Eduardo Marone, Sabine Undorf, Sylvia Knight
Townhall Meeting sponsored by the IAPG
Short Course SC4.1: Geoethics for Earth, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
23 May 2022, 13:20–14:50 (CEST), Room -2.61/62
Conveners: Eduardo Marone, Silvia Peppoloni
Short course sponsored by the IAPG and IOI-TC-LAC.
Details about events above at:
20 May 2022
IAPG-Germany for Fridays at the Museum
This event (in German) is organized by GeoForum of LMU Munich. This event is moderated by Simon Schneider (IAPG-Germany co-coordinator). Claudia Antratschke (Head of Department Collections and Research at the Landesmuseum Hannover) provides insight into how the context of finding and obtaining artifacts and specimens in the geosciences needs to be rethought. Artifacts - for example, in paleontology - have sometimes been taken from sites without taking into account local communities and their perceptions of nature.
12 May 2022
Talk on Geoethics in Lima (Peru)
6:00 pm GMT-5
Auditorium of the School of Geological Engineering of the UNMSM - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (Peru).
Pedro Isique (IAPG-Peru Coordinator) delivers a talk (in Spanish), entitled "Geoethics: A new path of thought and practice of geoscience".

9-11 May 2022
First Brazilian Meeting of Geoethics in Brazil
IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics is a supporting organization of this event (in Portuguese), organized by the Geoethics Commission of the Brazilian Geological Society (SBGEO).
Clara Vasconcelos (IAPG-Portugal Coordinator) gives a lecture entitled "Geoethics in Education". Bárbara Zanbelli Azevedo (IAPG Early Career Scientists Team) is panelist in the debate "Geoethics, Mining and Water".
Lectures and debates will be broadcasted on the Youtube channel of the Brazilian Society of Geology: https://www.youtube.com/c/SociedadeBrasileiradeGeologia

22 April 2022
Geoethics in the "State of the Planet" event by IUGS
Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) contributes to the "State of the Planet" event organized by the IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences within the initiatives to celebrate 60 years from the foundation of the IUGS (IUGS60) and the Earth Day 2022. Giuseppe is speaker and panelist at this event. He delivers a talk entitled "Ecological crisis and geosciences: the need for geoethics" (see the video).
- Download the flyer on this event (pdf file)
- Download the flyer on talks (pdf file)
- Download the flyer on panel (pdf file)

22 April 2022
Presentation of the book "Geoethics in Peru"
Sandra Villacorta presents the book "Geoethics in Peru" she edited for the SpringerBriefs in Geoethics Series.
This event is online and in Spanish. It is organized by IAPG-Peru and see the participation of Pedro Isique (IAPG-Peru Coordinator).
Registration to get the Zoom access link:
https://forms.gle/E6iH1RagUt2F5Yv97
More information about the book "Geoethics in Peru" of the SpringerBrifes in Geoethics:
https://www.geoethics.org/springerbriefs-geoethics
This book in the Springer Link website:
21 April 2022
14:30-15:30 IST
Lecture on "Geoethics and Georisks" in India
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) will deliver an online lecture, entitled "Geoethics and Georisks: Ethical and Social Aspects in Disaster Risk Reduction".
This event is organized by the Department of Geography, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Adamas University (Kolkata, India) for its Master Class series.
Zoom access link: https://adamasuniversity-ac-in.zoom.us/j/97424600502
Meeting ID: 974 2460 0502
Passcode: 010258
24 March 2022
Webinar on Geoethics and Groundwater
Manuel Abrunhosa (IAPG Board of Experts and Vice-president for Western Europe, International Association of Hydrogeologists) takes a webinar on "Geoethics and Groundwater" at the University of Pisa (Italy).
22 March 2022
Geoethics in the IUGS60 event for the
UN World Water Day 2022
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General and IUGS Councillor) gives a speech entitled "Responsible managament of water: a resource that recalls us to dialogue" at the IUGS60 virtual event for celebrating the World Water Day 2022.
22 March 2022
Webinar on Geoethics at Edgeryders
Marti Bohle (IAPG Board of Experts) gives an online speech entitled "Geoethics: Bridging geoSTEM and the social sciences" at the Edgeryders think tank.
17 March 2022
14:00-16:00 (Kabul time/GMT+4:30)
Webinar by IAPG-Afghanistan for the UN World Water Day 2022
Under the auspices of IAPG (International Association for Promoting Geoethics) and IAH (International Association of Hydrogeologists), the IAPG-Afghanistan (Afghanistan section of the IAPG) joined with AIH-GP (Portuguese Chapter of the IAH), The Groundwater Project, and AWEP.Net (Afghanistan Water and Environment Professionals Network) to celebrate the United Nations-World Water Day 2022 with a webinar entitled “Making Groundwater visible in Afghanistan”. Among the speakers: Manuel Abrunhosa (IAPG Board of Experts) and Sebastian Handl (Board of the IAPG-ECST Early Career Scientists Team). Moderators: Mohammad Salem Hussaini and Asadullah Farahmand (Co-coordinators of IAPG-Afghanistan).
16-17 March 2022
IAPG at the 77th IUGS EC Meeting
Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) represents the IAPG at the 77th Executive Committee Meeting of the IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences that is held in Paris (France), at the Société Géologique France (Geological Society of France).
Peter T. Bobrowsky (IAPG Vice-President) and Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) attend the meeting. Peter T. Bobrowsky will receive the IUGS James M. Harrison Medal. Silvia Peppoloni, as IUGS Councilor, is member of the IUGS EC from 2018.
The IAPG is affiliated to the IUGS from 2013.
17 March 2022
Geological Hazards and Geoethics in Argentina
Elizabeth Rovere and Roberto Violante (IAPGeoethics-Argentina coordinators) co-organize the Symposium S3 "Geological Hazards and Geoethics" (Peligros Geológicos y Geoética) at the XXI Argentinian Geological Congress (Congreso Geológico Argentino), that will be held in a virtual format in March 2022. Initially the congress was to take place in Puerto Madryn, Chubut (Argentina). Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) and Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) will give invited talks on geoethics. This symposium is sponsored by IAPGeoethics-Argentina.
- Download more information about the Symposium S3 (in Spanish)
8 March 2022
2nd Conversation of Peruvian Women in Geosciences
Organized by IAPG-Peru for the International Women Day.
This event has the goal to share and disseminate the work and experience of outstanding geoscience professionals to reach out to other young women who are studying or looking to pursue a career in this field.
Panelists: Celia Plascencia, Yuli Mamani, Judith Sullón, Sandra Villacorta. Moderator: Luz Tejada.
These women in geosciences will share the challenges that led them to be professionals in the sector, and will also dialogue to help reducing the gender gap in Peru.
24 February 2022
Webinar by IEEE
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) and Ezzoura Errami (IAPG Continental Coordinator for Africa) are panelists of the webinar entitled "Formation of Supportive Networks in the Face of Adversity". This event is organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is supported by Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS).
11 February 2022
IAPG celebrates the UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The International Union of Geological Sciences - IUGS interviews some of the fantastic women in geoscience (Videos can be seen on https://iugs60.org/iugs-women-in-geoscience-event/). Among them Silvia Peppoloni, our IAPG Secretary General! Silvia is a geologist, researcher at the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia), Rome (Italy), Councilor of the IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences, Coordinator of the Section on Geoethics and Geological Culture of the Italian Geological Society/IAPG-Italy. The IAPG joins IUGS in the celebration of the UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
10 February 2022
IAPG at the CFES Board Meeting
Peter Bobrowsky (IAPG Vice President) represents the IAPG at the Board Meeting of the CFES - Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences.

February-April 2022
1st Peruvian Geoscience Olympiad
IAPG-Peru organizes the 1st Geoscience Olympiad in Peru.
The Peruvian group of IAEG supports this initiative.
26 January 2022
Talk on geoethics in Germany
Time: 18:00 (CET)
Online Talk (in German) by Dr. Simon Schneider (IAPG-Germany co-coordinator) by invitation of the Geologische Gemeinschaft zu Freiberg e.V.
The talk is entitled "Geoethik - Wer Relevanz einfordert muss Verantwortung übernehmen" (Geoethics - Those who demand relevance must take responsibility).
To participate, please send an email to information.ggf@gmail.com for login information.
More about the event: https://www.linkedin.com/events/6887818747336298497/about/
13 January 2022
Talk on geoethics at the University of Jena (Germany)
Time: 16:15-17:15 (CET)
Online Talk by Dr. Dominic Hildebrandt (IAPG-Germany co-coordinator) at the Geosciences Colloquium, Institute for Geoscience, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany).
The talk is entitled "Shaping responsible future experts: the need for integrating Geoethics in Geoscience university education."
18 December 2021
4th Round Table on Geoethics in Peru
Time: 11:00-14:00 (GMT-5)
IAPG-Peru with the support of the IAPG-Peru Student Group organizes the 4th Round Table on Geoethics, entitled: "On geoethics in Peru: Towards the development of geoethical policies". The main goal of the activity is to promote the debate on ethics in the geoscience profession, focusing on different fields of activity, through critical reflections and analyses of case studies.
- Video
13-14 December 2021
IAPG at the XXXV General Assembly of the CIPSH
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) represents the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics at the XXXV General Assembly of the CIPSH - International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (http://www.cipsh.net/). Even Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) attends the General Assembly as IAPG representative within the CIPSH Executive Committee 2020-2023. The CIPSH General Assembly takes place in Odense (Denmark) in a mixed mode (presence and virtual).
The IAPG is a member organisation of the CIPSH from 2017.
12 December 2021
A talk on hydrogeoethics in Afghanistan
Time: 10:30-12:00 (GMT+4:30)
Mohammad Salem Hussaini and Asadullah Farahmand (IAPG-Afghanistan Co-coordinators) deliver a talk entitled "Introduction to Hydrogeoethics: A new transdisciplinary approach in water science" in the AWEP Net (Afghans Water and Environment Professionals Network) seminar series (virtual mode).
The language of the presentation is Persian, but the text of slides is English.
The registration is required through the following link:
https://forms.gle/WLHTe6BNCcm3iN1a9

9 December 2021
An IAPG talk on geoethics in Colombia

Time: 14:00-14:50 (GMT-5)
Nic Bilham (IAPG Continental Coordinator for Europe, University of Exeter) delivers an invited speech, entitled "Sustainable development and the energy transition: a geoethical perspective", as well as Pedro Isique delivers an invited speech, entitled "Geoethics and the exploitation of georesources", at the third version of the "Encuentro de Sostenibilidad y Energía – Sustainability and Energy Summit" (virtual event), organized by the Colombian Association of Petroleum Geologists and Geophysicists (ACGGP) and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG Latin America and the Caribbean Region.
6-7 December 2021
Geoethics in a Humanities seminar of CIPSH
Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) is invited to deliver a talk, entitled "Geoethics as global ethics to face global anthropogenic changes", at the The Second CIPSH International Academy on Chinese Cultures and Global Humanities Seminar on "Global Challenges and Global Ethics in a time of Pandemic and Climate Change", organized by Union Académique Internationale (UAI) in collaboration with the Stockholm China Center at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) in Stockholm (Sweden).
November 2021 - February 2022
Geoethics in a Training Course on Oceans
Eduardo Marone (IAPG-Brazil coordinator) is chair of the module "Geoethics" in the Training Course on Ocean Governance, Ocean Sciences, and Geoethics, organized by the International Ocean Institute - Training Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean (IOI-TC-LAC).
The IAPG is partner organization of this training course.
25 November 2021
Invited talk on geoethics in India
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG co-founding member and Secretary General) gives an invited talk (virtual mode) entitled "Ethics for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience", in the "One Week Faculty Development/ToT Programme on Disaster Management", organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs (India), in collaboration with the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, Uttarakhand (India). Surya Parkash (Head of the GMR Division at NIDM and IAPG-India coordinator) chairs this event and gives a talk entitled "Basic Understanding of Disaster Management".
18-21 November 2021
MinerLima 2021
Miraflores (Lima)
7th edition of the geoscience exhibition organized by IAPG-Peru.
Topic: "For a sustainable and inclusive mining".
17 November 2021
Lecture on geoethics in Slovenia
Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG co-founding member and treasurer) holds an online lecture entitled "Geoethics: from an ethics for geosciences to a global ethics for societies", organized by the GeoZS - Geological Survey of Slovenia for its 75th anniversary.
Time: 13:00-14:00 CET
16 November 2021
Talk on geoethics at GeStEIN (Germany)
Time: 18:15 (CET)
Online Talk by Dr. Dominic Hildebrandt (IAPG member) at the Colloquium of GeStEIN (umbrella organization of German Geoscience student representatives).
The talk is entitled "Shaping responsible future experts: the need for integrating Geoethics in Geoscience university education."
12 November 2021
Talk on geoethics at Interdisciplinary Weeks at the Fachhochschule Kiel (Germany)
Time: 18:00-19:30 (CET)
Online Talk (in German) by Dr. Dominic Hildebrandt (IAPG member) at the Interdisciplinary Weeks at the Fachhochschule Kiel (Germany).
The talk is entitled "Geoethik – ethische Fragen in den Geowissenschaften" (Geoethics – ethical questions in the Geosciences").
29 October 2021
Seminar on geoethics at the GSAf
Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG co-founding member and treasurer) holds an online seminar on "Foundations of Geoethics", organized by the GSAf - Geological Society of Africa for its seminar series.
Time: 14:00 GMT (15:00 Nigeria and Morocco time; 16:00 Egypt and South Africa time)
Zoom link: https://uit.zoom.us/j/62221567781
Meeting id: 622 2156 7781
26 October 2021
Special session on geoethics in Chile
The Chilean section of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) organizes the special session ‘Towards the construction of the Geoethics Code for the geoscience community in Chile’ in the Symposium of the Geology of Chile (SAGChi). This virtual session takes place through the SAGCHI platform (https://sociedadgeologica.cl/simposio-actualizacion-de-la-geologia-de-chile-2021) and aims to join the geoscience community in Chile to discuss about the social role of the people that work in this field. The language of the session is Spanish.
The keynote speakers of the session are:
Luisa Pinto Lincoñir, Associate Professor, Universidad de Chile, and coordinator of IAPG-Chile: "¿Qué principios y qué valores? El desafío de la construcción de un código de geoética". (What principles and what values? The challenge of building a code of geoethics).
Roberto Lencina Kairuz, Researcher, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, member of IAPG-Argentina: "Litio en la Puna Argentina: La percepción de las comunidades indígenas y el rol de los geocientíficos ¿un dilema ético de la transición energética?". (Lithium in the Argentinian Puna: The perception of indigenous communities and the role of geoscientists, an ethical dilemma of the energy transition?)
Mauricio Mella Barra, Geologist, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería: "Servicio Público e Investigación Científica: Una mirada ética desde las emergencias geológicas". (Public Service and Scientific Research: An ethical perspective from geological emergencies.
For more details, please write to geoeticachile@gmail.com
25 October 2021
IAPG talk on Geoethics in Mexico
Sandra Villacorta (Scientific Coordinator of IAPG-Peru) gives a talk on geoethics at the First International Congress "Study and Application of Geoscience on Earth and in the Space" (Primer Congreso Internacional "El Estudio y la Aplicación de las Geociencias en la Tierra y en el Espacio") in Mexico. The title of Sandra's talk is "Geoethics and its importance in Latin America" (Geoética y su importancia en América Latina). The congress is organized by Centro de Inteligencia y Análisis Estratégico under the auspices of the Centro de Investigaciones Geopoliticas en Energia y Medio Ambiente de México.

22 October 2021
IAPG Round table on geoethics in Bolivia
The online roundtable on geoethics is included in the programme of the XXIV Bolivian Geological Congress that is held in La Paz (Bolivia) and is organized by IAPG-Bolivia.
Time: 10:30 GMT-4
Speakers:
10:30 - 10:45 Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG-Italy)
10:45 - 11:00 Pedro Isique (IAPG-Peru)
11:00 - 11:15 Elizabeth Rovere (IAPG-Argentina)
11:15 - 11:30 Wilfredo Ramos Collorana (IAPG-Bolivia)
11:30 - 12:00 Comments and conclusions
Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/93744345358?pwd=ZEVBY0ZtbGIwQXBjSW9KL0ZvdXVudz09
Meeting id: 937 4434 5358
Metting password: 765948

14 October 2021
A talk on geoethics in India
14 October 2021
International Geoethics Day 2021
5th edition of this event that is celebrated worldwide, during the Earth Science Week and the month of the Global Ethics Day.
Hashtag: #geoethicsday2021
4 October 2021
AGI MSC Fall 2021 meeting jointly with Geological Society of America’s Associated Societies
Vince Cronin (IAPG-USA co-coordinator) represents the IAPG at the American Geosciences Institute’s (AGI) virtual Fall 2021 Member Society Council (MSC) meeting, that is held jointly with the Geological Society of America’s Associated Societies.
1 October 2021
Webinar on Hydrogeoethics
Manuel Abrunhosa (IAPG Board of Experts) is the speaker of the webinar entitled "Hydrogeoethics: the newest Hydrogeology discipline", included in the "Where Groundwater Meets" series and organised by IAH's Western and Central European Chapters.
Free attendance upon registration here:
https://uniroma1.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcumgpjsoGdfcYppcoMlOZ0jxksB62FNt
22 September 2021
Geoethics at GeoKarlsruhe 2021
Virtual conference
Session 12.3 "Geoscience and Society".
Martin Bohle (IAPG Board of Expert) deliver a presentation entitled "Geo-Rational - Ethics in/for the Geosciences". Dominic Hildebrandt (IAPG member) deliver a presentation entitled "Shaping responsible future experts: the need for integrating Geoethics in Geoscience university education".
28 June 2021
Geoethics in Forensic Geology in Brazil
Lorna Dawson gives a pre-recorded talk entitled "Geoethics in Forensic Geology: A White Paper" at the 50th Brazilian Congress on Geology. The presentation is signed by L. Dawson, R. Di Maggio, J. McKinley, G. Di Capua, S. Peppoloni, J. Pringle, D. Auchie, D. Parratt.

21 May 2021
AGI MSC Spring 2021 meeting
Vince Cronin (IAPG-USA co-coordinator) represents the IAPG at the American Geosciences Institute’s (AGI) virtual Spring 2021 Member Society Council (MSC) meeting. IAPG is an International Associate Society of the AGI from 2014.
16 May 2021
Virtual Seminar on Geoethics in Peru
Luis Alberta Araújo Ramos (IAPG-Peru board) delivers an online talk (in Spanish), entitled "Geoethics in Peru".

7 May 2021
Round Table on Health and Humanities
Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) is an invited speaker at the round table on health and humanities in the European Humanities Conference 2021.
26 and 29 April 2021
Geoethics at the EGU 2021
This year we celebrate 10 years of sessions on geoethics organized by the IAPG at the EGU General Assembly! Know more here
26 April 2021 - 09:00-10:30 CEST
Session EOS4.2: Geoethics: Geosciences serving Society (Convenership: Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua). This session is organized by the IAPG.
26 April 2021 - 14:15-17:00 CEST
Session EOS3.2: Climate literacy: Learning, education, methods and roadmaps (Convenership: David Crookall, Giuseppe Di Capua, Lydie Lescarmontier, Robin Matthews, Frank Niepold). This session is sponsored by the IAPG.
29 April 2021 - 10:00-11:00 CEST
Short Course SC4.4: Foundations and Perspectives of Geoethics for Earth, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences - In memoriam of Jan Boon (Convenership: Eduardo Marone, Giuseppe Di Capua, Silvia Peppoloni). This short course is organized by the IAPG and IOI-TC-LAC.
More about these sessions and the short course: https://www.geoethics.org/egu2021
22 April 2021 (10:00 ET)
PGO 2021 Virtual Symposium
Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) gives an invited speech entitled "Geoethics in Natural Hazard and Risk Management" at the 2021 Virtual Symposium of the PGO - Professional Geoscientists Ontario.
Giuseppe's speech is included in the Panel Session B "Risky Business: A Changing Paradigm of Managing Risks in a Changing World".
Paul Hubley (PGO President and IAPG-Canada coordinator) is co-chair of the Panel Session B.
More information and registration:
19 April 2021 (18:30 GMT-4)
Webinar on Geoeducation
The webinar (in Spanish) is focused on the dissemination of geosciences in Chile.
This event is co-organized by IAPG-Chile/Grupo Geoética Chile (Geoethics Group Chile) and Grupo de Educación (Education Group) of the Sociedad Geológica de Chile (Geological Society of Chile)
Zoom Meeting ID: 890 4090 8908, password: 530991
Link: https://bit.ly/2QlnTpr