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What space for justice? The just energy transition partnership with South Africa

Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 12h

📊 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.

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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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Energy transformations not only reveal multi-dimensional claims for just distribution, recognition, and procedures, but also how justice claims depend…

Of time, whales, and other assets

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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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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 …

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 · 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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Beyond depoliticization and divisive antagonism: Rethinking fear, anger, and anxiety in environmental politics

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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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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 Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 2d

Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 2d

💡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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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 6d

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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 7d

🌡️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...

Too Complex to Fail: The Stability of Global Environmental Governance Beyond Hegemony

Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 9d

📬 The September edition of the Earth System Governance Newsletter is here! Packed with community news, key announcements, and opportunities across the ESG Project network.

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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 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...

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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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · 15d

📢 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!
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Call for Applications: Two Scholarships to Start a PhD in Sept 2026

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Transformations Community @transformationscommunity.org · 14d

💡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...

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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 16d

#TCESG25 conference throwback - see all plenary sessions online: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

TC/ESG25 South Africa Conference - YouTube

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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 22d

👋 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 [email protected] to be featured in our September newsletter and connect with our global community.

Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 23d

🌏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

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- 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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Transformations Community @transformationscommunity.org · 23d

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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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…

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

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

Aerial imagery to support participatory landscape decision-making

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

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

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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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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 · 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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