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📢Call for Papers - 2026 Bath Conference on Earth System Governance

Join us in Bath from 8–10 September under the theme “Building Just and Sustainable Futures for Planetary Integrity.”

Submit your paper, panel, or innovative session proposal by 15 January.

www.earthsystemgovernance.org/2026-bath/
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🌍 Are annual UN climate COPs unsustainable?

💸 Thang Nam Do argues their carbon and financial cost limits low-income groups' participation and proposes biennial in-person COPs alternating with virtual sessions to free resources for inclusion & frontline action.

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Fund more, fly less: A hybrid meeting cycle for more effective and equitable climate governance
The annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's Conference of Parties (COP) has long served as a keystone of global climate diploma…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🌱 What if states were reorganized into "ecosystem republics", governed by and for nature?

Nupur Chowdhury proposes a Gandhian model of decentralized governance grounded in swaraj and ahimsa to protect ecological integrity.

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Ecosystems republics
Despite global efforts towards sustainability and conservation, as per the latest Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosys…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📢Call for Papers - 2026 Bath Conference on Earth System Governance

Join us in Bath from 8–10 September under the theme “Building Just and Sustainable Futures for Planetary Integrity.”

Submit your paper, panel, or innovative session proposal by 15 January.

www.earthsystemgovernance.org/2026-bath/
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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☀️ How do NGOs shape the solar transition on the ground?

Avri Eitan & Shira Bukchin-Peles show how NGOs in Israel’s solar sector act as regulatory intermediaries, bridging regulators, developers & communities to smooth governance frictions.

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Solar middle ground: NGOs as regulatory intermediaries in renewable energy governance
Renewable energy, solar in particular, has become central to global decarbonization efforts. Yet its deployment often exposes tensions between central…
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October 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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🌏 How can property rights adapt to complex socio-ecological systems?

Kaiwen Zhang et al. propose a layer recomposition framework that repackages rights by resource systems and ecosystem services, enabling modular, adaptive, and localized governance.

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Unpacking and repacking bundles of rights: Modular property rights regime for natural resource governance under complexity
Effective governance of natural resources has become increasingly vital in the face of accelerating socio-ecological transformations. In recent decade…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📬 The October edition of the Earth System Governance Newsletter is here! Packed with community news, key announcements, and opportunities across the ESG network.

Read it here: mailchi.mp/earthsystemg...
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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🐟 How do Indigenous and state systems coexist in governing salmon?

Tatiana Degai et al. co-develop an analysis with Indigenous fishers & scholars on how Kamchatka’s communities navigate top-down Russian governance while sustaining traditional salmon practices.

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Multi-level salmon governance and adaptation to institutional change in Indigenous fishing communities in Kamchatka, Russia
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October 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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📊 How do the #SDGs shape corporate behavior?

Xue Ruo Ng et al. show how Malaysian firms’ voluntary disclosure of SDG 13 efforts links to stronger financial performance: narrowing info gaps, boosting investor confidence, & driving sustainability efforts.

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Sustainability transitions in corporations: The influence of the sustainable development goals on corporate financial performance
Scholarly, there is growing interest in corporations transitioning towards adopting SDGs. However, there is still a gap in understanding how the SDGs …
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October 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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🎥 #TCESG25 in 3 Minutes
In August, we gathered in Johannesburg to reimagine how transformation happens.
Imagination. Inquiry. Expression. Community.
Nothing captures the energy like this film 👇
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8I...
More from the gathering:
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TC/ESG 2025: Johannesburg Conference Recap
YouTube video by Transformations Community
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October 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
📊 Launch of the Earth System Governance Data Directory

A living and collaborative open-access resource to help researchers and practitioners find and share existing and upcoming datasets relevant to global environmental governance.

🔗 www.earthsystemgovernance.org/news/launch-...
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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⚖️ What notions of justice shape #SouthAfrica’s #EnergyTransition?

Konrad Gürtler analyses debates on the #JETP. Interviews show claims to address past injustices, focus on international talks, and rising subnational concerns over infrastructure and ownership
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What space for justice? The just energy transition partnership with South Africa
Energy transformations not only reveal multi-dimensional claims for just distribution, recognition, and procedures, but also how justice claims depend…
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September 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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🐋 What does it mean to turn whales into assets?

📑 Valbona Muzaka reflects on the “whale bond,” a strange product of "speculative delirium". She highlights the fallacy of seeking escape by turning life and ecosystem services into asset forms.

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Of time, whales, and other assets
This Perspective offers some reflections on how multiple times are entangled in the current moment of living on a planet pushed beyond its limits and …
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September 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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🔬 Scientific advice in global environmental governance: how do bodies differ?

Bridging epistemic communities & STS literatures, Veronique Fournier develops a new 4-type typology based on interaction & diversity, categorizing 14 MEA advisory bodies.

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Advising decision-makers: a new typology of scientific bodies in global environmental governance
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September 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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🍃 Fear, anger & anxiety are often seen as harmful in climate politics. Kristin Hällmark argues they can instead foster democratic engagement: fear re-politicizes debate, anger builds identities, and anxiety roots belonging in ecological interconnectedness.

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Beyond depoliticization and divisive antagonism: Rethinking fear, anger, and anxiety in environmental politics
Negative eco-emotions such as fear, anger, and anxiety are becoming increasingly widespread as the consequences of the ongoing climate crisis are gett…
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October 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
💡Global International Relations & #EarthSystemGovernance

How can South-South perspectives reshape global governance & strengthen research networks?

Report from the South-South Initiative webinar that gathered scholars and students from India & Brazil 🔗 www.earthsystemgovernance.org/news/report-...
Report from webinar “Global International Relations and Earth System Governance: A South-South Initiative”
Report from webinar “Global International Relations and Earth System Governance: A South-South Initiative” | Earth System Governance
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October 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Looking for your next position in #EarthSystemGovernance?

Our September newsletter is filled with
🔹11 PhD and 7+18 Postdoc positions
🔹13 Teaching and Senior roles
... and a myriad of other opportunities for #ECR and researchers across career stages

Find them here 🔗 mailchi.mp/earthsystemg...
October 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
🌡️The ESG Project has partnered with the CLIMES 2026 interdisciplinary conference on "Climate impacts in a changing world" taking place 9-11 March in Uppsala, Sweden.

The call for abstracts is open now until 2 November: www.climes.se/event/impact...
October 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
📬 The September edition of the Earth System Governance Newsletter is here! Packed with community news, key announcements, and opportunities across the ESG Project network.

Read it here: mailchi.mp/earthsystemg...

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September 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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🚨 New paper: Will global environmental governance survive Trump?
@rakhyunkim.bsky.social and I argue that its high complexity makes it more resilient than other governance systems. We give hegemonic stability theory a complexity science twist.

📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1758...
Too Complex to Fail: The Stability of Global Environmental Governance Beyond Hegemony
The recent US disengagement from global governance has revived concerns—first theorized in the 1970s and 1980s—about the vulnerability of international institutions to hegemonic decline. While these ...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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📢 CfA: Two fully funded PhD positions on China’s Science Silk Road and the new geopolitics of knowledge. One on environmental issues🌱, the other on outer space 🚀
🎓 Competitive stipend
🌍 Intl project (Québec–Berlin–Oslo)
Encourage your MA students to apply!
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/call-applica...
Call for Applications: Two Scholarships to Start a PhD in Sept 2026
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September 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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💡Ideas sparked at #TCESG25 are ready to grow!
Special issues are open in Global Sustainability,
Earth Stewardship, COSUST & Earth System Governance
📚Now’s the time to build on the ideas & connections that took shape during the conference!
🌱Explore more transformationscommunity.org/tc-esg25-pub...
September 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#TCESG25 conference throwback - see all plenary sessions online: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
TC/ESG25 South Africa Conference - YouTube
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September 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
👋 Have something to share with the #EarthSystemGovernance network?

Whether it’s an event, a job opportunity, or a new publication—let us help spread the word!

📩 Send your announcement to ipo@earthsystemgovernance.org to be featured in our September newsletter and connect with our global community.
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🌏ESG Project partners with the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability for the #NERPS2026 conference: "Harnessing Technologies for Strengthening Multilateralism on Peace and Sustainability"

📍4-7 March 2026, Tokyo, Japan

📆 Call for abstracts: 15 Nov

nerps.org/nerps-2026-c...
- Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability
Research presentations (presentation only) Presentation only proposals must have a title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and at least three keywords. The Scientific Committee will select six presenta...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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4 days. 400+ participants. 130+ sessions. 330+ speakers. 70+ countries. #TCESG25 brought science, policy, art & practice into tough but creative conversations on sustainability transformations
✨Highlights: Recordings | Gallery | Program+ arts & wellbeing: transformationscommunity.org/tc-esg-2025-...
TC/ESG 2025 Conference | Transformations Community
TC/ESG 2025 Conference Thank you! In August 2025, more than 400 participants from 70 countries came together in Johannesburg for TC/ESG 2025 — our seventh g ...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM