Information technologies have evolved into an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. The 4th International Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering aims to present recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.

The Energy and Environment Track at the 9th International Conference on Business Informatics (WI-2009) focuses on two major influences increasingly changing energy markets and their value chains: Liberalization, which is particularly driven by European regulation ("legal unbundling"), and decentralized, regenerative power generation in order to meet the political aims regarding climate change. These changes affect market participants and their IT infrastructure.

More than 8,000 of the world’s leading decision makers in sustainable development: from governments, NGOs, business, the UN and academia. Together in one place for 10 days: to debate, share, network, learn, commit, vote and decide. The objective: ideas, action and solutions for a diverse and sustainable world.

Although climate change is regarded as a critical issue and sound scientific knowledge is needed in order to address the problem in a holistic way, there is a paucity of events focusing on the different aspects of climate change. Therefore, an internet-based (and therefore largely CO2-neutral) scientific event concerned with approaches, methods, strategies, and other types of action needed in order to cope with the challenge of climate change, is a welcome development. It is on the basis of this perceived need that the Conference "Climate 2008/ Klima 2008" is being organised.

The Minitrack on Information Systems and Sustainable Development at the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences emphasizes the significant synergies that exist between information systems and sustainability research from an organizational as well as a technical perspective. Collaboration and cross-fertilization between these domains can be mutually beneficial and present unique, timely and socially relevant ‘real-world’ research opportunities as well as viable public sources of empirical ecological information for interdisciplinary research and application.

The mini-track focuses on innovative design and use of Decision Support Systems (DSS), and their application to the environmental domain. The urgency and scope of environmental problems call for both immediate action and sustainable long-term strategies. Consequently, decision-makers need to reexamine their knowledge assets and identify new methods to exploit them more effectively. The fields of environmental communication, ecosystem monitoring and environmental resource management are constantly developing such methods.

The Interdisciplinary Environmental Association (IEA) invites you to participate in the 14th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment! The conference is motivated by the increasing need to combine ideas and research findings from different disciplines to enhance our understanding of the interactions between the natural environment and human institutions.

Influential non-governmental organisations and governments are bringing marketing to task over its perceived and real lack of concern for ethical and socially responsible behaviour. The theme of the EMAC 2008 Conference is to examine the marketing landscape, to continue the debate, and assess if we have over specialized the discipline into ‘silos’ and narrowed our perspectives resulting in a failure to look at the bigger picture.

The 4th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software aims to enhance environmental processes by means of fostering the discussion and interchange of challenges, solutions, ideas, new methods and techniques, and future research lines in environmental modelling & software. The congress joins together several interest groups working in different but complementary features and/or scientific fields in Environmental Modelling, Assessment, Decision Making and Information Technologies.

The International Conference on Information Technology & Environmental System Sciences 2008 (ITESS-2008) will take place in Jiaozuo, China , May 15-17, 2008. It aims at providing a unique gathering place and open forum for bringing together researchers, engineers, managers, and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines with common interests in techniques and tools of environmental information sciences.