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The article presents a report from a December 2-3, 2016 conference in Berlin, Germany on the historical impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster on environmental policy hosted by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung endowment, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Munich, the HoNESt–History of Nuclear Energy and Society, the Center for Metropolitan Studies at Technische Universität Berlin university, and the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam historical society. Topics of presentations delivered include the Energiewende shift in German electricity generation, the reaction of the Danish anti-nuclear weapons movement to the Chernobyl disaster, and regional differences in perception of the disaster among nuclear power plant workers in Eastern and Western Europe.

Information on Ökologie und Ökonomie. Zur Geschichte einer Beziehung, a conference that was held at Universität Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany from November 13-14, 2015 is presented. Topics discussed include dam projects in Latin America, economic-ecological crises in 20th century and environmental policy of West Germany. The symposium featured several historians including Sabine Sauter, Frederik Schulze and Thomas Barth.

A report is presented from a May 17, 2012 conference for doctoral candidates in Munich, Germany on the history of technology. Topics of discussion included the use of the Arctic regions and Antarctica by the U.S. and the Soviet Union as technological testing grounds during the Cold War, the history of East German environmental policies, and cultural transmission of technology in 19th-century Württemberg, Germany.