4th High-Level Meeting of 2050Today
Wednesday 3 December 2025
18:30-20:00
Every year, 2050Today—the Geneva Climate Action Forum—brings together leaders and employees from its member institutions and the entire international community in Geneva with a shared goal: to decarbonize Geneva and the world.
For its 4th edition, the event is highlighting a highly symbolic theme: Place des Nations
A symbol of multilateralism and global dialogue, the Place des Nations becomes the starting point for reflection on our collective place in a changing world. This high-level evening event offers a fresh perspective on international cooperation, climate issues, and the systemic transformations currently underway.
Between institutional presentations, the 2050Today Awards ceremony, an inspiring lecture by Maxime Blondeau entitled “A New Perspective at Nations,” and the launch of the pilot exhibition “Place des Nations,” the 2025 annual meeting invites everyone to rethink how they live on the planet.
18:30 – High-Level Meeting
Geneva and the Nations, Nathalie Fontanet, State Councilor in charge of the Department of Finance, Human Resources, and External Affairs, Republic and Canton of Geneva
United for zero emissions, Jean-Pierre Reymond, Executive Director of 2050Today
2050Today brings together Swiss authorities at all levels and public and private actors from International Geneva, such as state representations, international organizations, academic institutions, NGOs, and international business groups, with a common goal: to decarbonize Geneva and the world. With the global and planetary order being called into question, what are the issues, challenges, and progress of this collective systemic transformation?
2050Today Awards Ceremony
- Véronique Atnané Ryser, Director General of SIG
- Ana Bory and Daniel Van Den Berg, co-founders of Miloo
- Award-winning members
The 2050Today Low-Carbon and Engagement Awards annually recognize member institutions by highlighting their efforts and innovative initiatives to decarbonize International Geneva.
19:00 – Conference “A New Look on Nations” by Maxime Blondeau (author, lecturer, and cosmographer)
More than 190,000 followers follow his daily posts on LinkedIn. A lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and Mines Paris Tech on the theme of territorial perception, he is also a columnist for RFI. Géoconscience, his first book, was published in October 2024. In this lecture, he will question the very idea of nationhood, what is emerging. What is a nation? In a context of systemic risks, does this idea become what separates or what emerges?
Thinking about the nation differently, reconciling scales. This is Maxime Blondeau’s ambition, which will take us on a journey from the planetary atmosphere to our own territory through maps, satellite views, and photographs that will change the way we look at nations.
19:45 – Inauguration of the pilot exhibition “Place des Nations”
“Place des Nations” is an international traveling exhibition project designed as a sensitive representation of our planet through the 195 nations of the world. This exhibition in the making, combining art, science, planetary boundaries, and geopolitics, will begin in Geneva in 2026, on the Place des Nations, before traveling to several cities around the world.
From 3 December 2025, to 15 January 2026, a pilot version representing 25 nations will be on display at Uni Dufour. Place des Nations is an exhibition-event designed and developed by 2050Today and Maxime Blondeau, author of the texts.
20:00 – Cocktail-reception (by registration)
21:00 – End of event
- Venue: University of Geneva, Uni Dufour (Room U600), Rue du Général-Dufour 24, 1204 Geneva.
- Event open to the general public
- Free admission, registration required by 25 November 2025
- Simultaneous interpretation French – English
