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The Earth System Governance journal is a flagship publication of the global Earth System Governance research alliance. Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/earth-system-governance

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 2d

🍃 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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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 12d

🔬 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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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 16d

🐋 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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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 20d

⚖️ 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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Jakob Skovgaard @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social · 23d

Just out! 🚨
Together with my excellent co-author @Hyeyoon Park, I published a new article on how global green finance governance institutions frame climate risks (1/3)

Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 23d

🏛️ Under what conditions do development programs institutionalise #RenewableEnergy?

🇮🇩 Jens Marquardt et al. study 3 programs in #Indonesia. They find rhetorical and some policy change, but little organisational uptake or mainstreaming of political practices.

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Long-term programs, short-term effects? How development partners struggle to institutionalize renewable energy solutions in Indonesia

This article shows how long-term development programs struggle to institutionalize renewable energy solutions in the Global South. Our contribution is…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 26d

🔥 Should climate harm be reframed as a mass atrocity?

📑 Gaspard Lemaire argues that terms like #GlobalWarming or #ClimateCrisis obscure victims' suffering. He proposes “climate atrocity” instead, clarifying responsibility for governance, law, & advocacy.

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The climate atrocity paradigm

Unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions threaten countless lives worldwide, yet conventional terminology such as “global warming” or “climate disruptio…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 27d

🛰️ Can drones improve land-use planning?

🌏 Yilin Huang et al. show in 27 Lao villages that drone imagery supports participatory planning. Nadir images helped identify natural & built features. Oblique views aided self-localisation & contextual understanding.

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Aerial imagery to support participatory landscape decision-making

Effective land-use management is crucial for addressing sustainability challenges. Participatory landscape planning can facilitate this by integrating…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 28d

🚗⚡ Can subsidies secure low-carbon #EV supply chains?

🇨🇦 Chris Arsenault, Raphael Deberdt & Philippe Le Billon analyse #Canada’s case and find key challenges: some Indigenous communities' opposition to mining, limited policy understanding, & slowing EV demand

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Onshoring low-carbon supply chains: Can subsidies meet the challenge?

Framing Chinese dominance in low-carbon supply chains as a strategic threat, Western governments have responded by deploying a range of subsidies to s…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · 29d

⚖️ How do states link climate action and inequality?

📜 @mjernnas.bsky.social analyses #NDCs under the #ParisAgreement and shows how states portray interactions and what opportunities and challenges exist for including inequalities in future #NDCs.

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Resolving climate action and inequality in tandem? A global review of states’ climate pledges to the Paris Agreement

Climate change and inequalities are intrinsically linked, both in terms of unequal responsibilities for causing emissions, and who bears the brunt of …

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌾 Can EU biodiversity rules change farming on the ground?

Lucija Pečurlić et al. show that in Croatia 🇭🇷, agri-environmental schemes covered <2% of farmland. Weak institutions, scarce data & low capacity limited uptake, even after CAP reforms.

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Aug 4

🗳️ What if climate governance empowered citizens more?

🗣️ @nicolecurato.bsky.social et al. build on the Global Assembly on the Climate & Ecological Crisis to propose institutionalized citizen deliberation to boost legitimacy, solidarity, & civic voice.

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Where next for global climate deliberation: From proof of concept to a role in transformation

Building on the proof of concept that was the 2021 Global Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Crisis, we explore an expanded and even institutional…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Aug 1

🌱 What’s holding back the land sector’s climate potential?

🔎 María José Sanz and Ana Karla Perea Blazquez analyse the global governance of agriculture, forestry, and land use, and find gaps in funding, standards, and coordination that limit climate mitigation.

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Analysis of international climate change governance for the agriculture, forest and land use sector: Gaps and recommendations for future improvement

The crucial role of land-based activities in climate change mitigation and adaptation has gained recognition under the Paris Agreement, including thro…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jul 30

📡 Why do some climate linkages spread more than others?

Karina Shyrokykh & @lisadellmuth.bsky.social use Twitter data to show how technical and emotional framings affect how climate-development and climate-disaster linkages travel across IOs.

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Climate change framings and linkages across international organizations

As climate change is becoming an ever more pressing global policy challenge, the linkages of climate change to other issue areas are diversifying. Thi…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jul 28

🧩 How does fragmented sustainability governance affect equity?

Lisa Hiwasaki examines the #SDGs, #ParisAgreement, and Sendai Framework to assess how inequality and equity are addressed, and finds major gaps in language, alignment, and implementation.

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Leave no one behind: Prioritising equality and equity towards integration of global sustainability governance

Processes within global sustainability governance are fragmented despite calls for greater synergies. Although “leave no one behind” is a universal va…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌿 How do political authorities manage biodiversity conservation, and how do stakeholders respond?

🇮🇳 Justin Joseph et al. examine the securitization of the Western Ghats in Kerala, India & show how local audiences resist the securitization process.

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Securitization, three streams model and biodiversity in the Global South: A case study of Western Ghats of India

Biodiversity conservation is one of the most contentious issues in the Global South, particularly political authority's methods and objectives of mana…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jul 17

🌱 Why do farmers change land-use practices?

Elsa Dingkuhn et al. find that:

📍Social context shapes outcomes more than governance tools
🧰 Regulation works best when combined with soft instruments
⚖️ Multiple tools create synergies, but also contradictions

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Land-use governance: The interplay of social, market, and policy drivers – A global systematic review

Sustainable land-use governance is challenged by the complex interplay of local to global influences. This study combines two complementary approaches…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jul 11

🤖 How can Digital Twins (DTs) reconfigure environmental governance?
Paulan Korenhof et al. show that DTs reshape info, communication & control; raising concerns about transparency, equity & democratic legitimacy.
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Cyber-governance of the natural world the implications of digital twins in environmental governance

Digital Twins (DTs) are data-driven real-time and multi-faceted representations of real-life physical systems or phenomena. Currently, DTs are develop…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jul 9

⚡ What makes the South African Just Energy Transition Partnership (#JETP) work?

Heiner von Lüpke shows how:

– Shared norms build mutual trust
– Institutionalisation fosters legitimacy

Together, these factors help promote donor-recipient cooperation.

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The just energy transition partnership in South Africa: Identification and assessment of key factors driving international cooperation

This paper investigates the implications of implementing the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) in South Africa by exploring the factors that a…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jul 4

🌍 Should ethnic and racial inequalities be a #SDG?

T. G. Galvão et al. examine Brazil’s proposal for a new SDG 18 and:

– Center ethnic and racial inequalities
– Draw on Black and Indigenous thinkers
– Critically assess limits of “governance through goals”

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Ethnic-racial approach to the SDG: promoting a Global South perspective to the 2030 Agenda and sustainable development

This article focuses on the Brazilian proposal of a new SDG 18 emphasizes fighting ethnic and racial inequalities as a pivotal concern to a truly just…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jul 2

🧭 Can bureaucrats help advance #IndigenousRights?

R. Kløcker Larsen et al. analyse cases across 4 continents:

– States often sustain colonial agendas
– Some officials enable decolonizing actions
– Introduce “institutional braiding” to describe such agency

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Finding the cracks: How do frontline officials maneuver state institutions to advance Indigenous rights to land and environment?

This paper challenges the monolithic portrayal of the state as inherently ‘bad’ when it comes to implementation of Indigenous rights. Offering a compa…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jun 30

📖 What can #Agenda21 teach us about the #SDGs?

Mark Elder & Susanne Grünewald show:

– SDGs build more on Agenda 21 than often acknowledged
– Its broad, integrated vision shaped today’s goals
– Overlooked lessons matter for post-2030 debates

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Insights from Agenda 21 for enhancing the implementation of the SDGs and shaping the Post-2030 sustainable development agenda

This paper re-examines Agenda 21 for lessons to improve SDG implementation and contribute to discussions on the post-2030 sustainable development agen…

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jun 27

🌐 Who produces knowledge on the #GlobalSouth?

P. Mazzega et al. analyse ~17k articles (1994–2024):

– Global North dominates authorship & funding
– South Africa, India, China & Brazil gaining ground
– GS institutions still underrepresented in top journals

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Where is the “Global South” located in scientific research?

Although the term “Global South” has been increasingly invoked by heads of State as a call for enhanced multilateralism and institutional reform, its …

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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · Jun 26

✉️ ESG Newsletter June
Filled with fresh publications from @esg-journal.bsky.social, a kind reminder to sign up for #TCESG25 along with the latest news, upcoming events and exciting opportunities shared across the ESG network.

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Earth System Governance Journal @esg-journal.bsky.social · Jun 25

🇮🇳 How did India reshape global climate norms?

@chrishoehne.bsky.social on the 2007 Bali Conference finds India:

– Pushed domestic views on forests & mitigation
– Reframed norms to match national priorities
– Asserted Global South as norm-maker

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Exporting norm interpretations from the Global South: Explaining India's reasons for contesting and reshaping international climate norms

Recent scholarship highlights Global South countries not only as norm-takers or localizers but also as norm-makers. Contributing to this shift, I conc…

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