In the face of the current unprecedented intergenerational and environmental challenges, the intercultural philosophy network Nature, Time, Responsibility (NTR) promotes sustained dialogue on the topic of moral, legal, and political responsibilities to future generations and to nature across time. This is a topic on which we urgently need intercultural dialogue to permit new global solutions embedded in and carried by more than one tradition.

The urgency stems first and foremost from the threat associated with the current environmental crisis, from global heating to deforestation, and associated environmental injustices affecting above all the global poor and future generations, both overlapping and more distant. But it also derives from the necessity to include different cultures and their cultural and philosophical traditions in addressing these injustices so as to avoid cultural one-sidedness, avoid misunderstandings (e.g. about what nature means and how humans are situated in it), mine the resources of different traditions for better concepts, and strive for an overlapping consensus among global traditions.

In 2017, NTR was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiative (Euro 25,000) from the German Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. With the help of the Humboldt-Award and other sources, NTR has organized exchange of student and postdoc researchers across the network and plans further conferences.