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Preliminary programme 2026 Bath Conference |
The 2026 Bath Conference team is pleased to announce that a detailed preliminary programme is now available. For the best experience, we recommend accessing the programme via the Conference Portal in ConfTool. If you don’t have a ConfTool user account yet, you can create one for free. You can also find a PDF version of the programme on the conference website. |
Registration reminders - Presenters at the conference - 3 July
- For all other participants - 7 August
Call for volunteers We are seeking enthusiastic volunteers to support the organisation of the 2026 Bath Conference. Read more and apply here →
| Relaunch of the Taskforce on Climate Governance |
The Taskforce on Climate Governance is being relaunched this year. To kick-start the process, a session at the Meeting Day during the 2026 Bath Conference on Earth System Governance will explore ‘Climate Governance in 2030’. We will conduct an in-person workshop based on the 3Horizons framework to scope governance contexts and challenges (H1), envision changes in climate governance (H3), and map bridging strategies (H2) – aiming at a proposal for a 2027-2028 journal Special Issue on emerging challenges and opportunities for climate governance.
As you register for the conference, we invite you to save the date: - 11 September 14:00-16:00 (UTC+1)
Register as a member of the taskforce → From the Climate Governance Taskforce conveners, Valeria Zambianchi, Milena Niesen, Kennedy Mbeva and Sean Low | A message from the Working Group on Decarbonization |
The Working Group on Decarbonization will be at the Meeting Day during the 2026 Bath Conference on Earth System Governance. Through a set of participatory and creative methods, the WG will reflect on desired upcoming activities and on the lock-ins and leverages in decarbonization research. So, we invite you to save the date: - 11 September, 16:30-18:00 (UTC+1)
Register your interest → From the Decarbonization WG conveners, Ksenia Anisimova, Milena Niesen and Valeria Zambianchi | Following the earlier open call for new members of the Scientific Steering Committee, we are pleased to welcome five new SSC members for the 2026 intake.
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| | | Introducing the author team of the Next Science Plan. The authors applied through an open call earlier this year. More information on the process will be made available soon.
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| | | New publication in the Cambridge Elements series: "Youth and Earth Politics - From Misconceptions to Potential for Synergy" by Senior Research Fellow Amandine Orsini, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles.
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| | | Replay ESG Speaker Series: "Water Off a Duck's Back - Building Personal and Emotional Resilience in Academia" | | Replay the conversation with Early Career Committee members Thashmika Ravindu Bandara (City St George's University) and Anna Berg Grimstad (Uppsala University) who together with Lead Faculty Karen O’Brien (Oslo University, cChange, Uppsala University) reflected on both the privileges and pressures of academic careers.
| Research Fellow Publications | - Amoakoh, A. O., Boafo, J., Obodai, J. and Dotsey, S. (2026). Rethinking environment, social and governance (ESG) in critical minerals extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Extractive Industries and Societies.
- Beaudoin, S., & Dauvergne, P. (2026). Health and plastics: Avenues for strengthening the plastics treaty. The Lancet Planetary Health.
- Boafo, J., Dotsey, S, Spencer, R. and Alesin, P. (2026). Undermining sustainability: The EU’s push for competitiveness and its consequences for Africa’s critical minerals sector. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition.
- Logg-Scarvell, J., & Patterson, J. (2026). Navigating the eye of the storm: policy conflict and bureaucratic policymaking in Australia and Canada. Policy Studies.
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- Student assistant, Unlocking the Full Potential of Digital Twins for Sustainable Ocean Futures (TwinPolitics), University of Vienna, Austria
- PhD scholarship, Understanding the politicization of university knowledge and education, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- PhD scholarship, Climate Inequalities and EU Environmental Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Postdoctoral researcher, Science-Policy Engagement and Climate Futures, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
- Postdoctoral fellow, Planetary Politics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Postdoctoral researcher, Blue Planet Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- 4 project researchers, Indigenous Governance of Biodiversity, Institute of Global Value Inquiry, various locations
- Research associate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, UK
- Full professorship, Sustainability, Knowledge and Society, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
- Call for external reviewers, IPBES second global assessment
- Call for submission of materials, IPCC AR7 Chapter 3, Projected futures in the context of sustainable development and climate change
- Call for papers, International Association for Business & Society 2027, "Purpose, Sustainability and Impact", University of Warwick, UK
- Call for papers, Futures Special Issue "Socioeconomic futures frameworks for motivating actions for sustainability"
- Call for abstracts, Integrative Social-Ecological Knowledge Systems: Conceptual and Computational Foundations for Ecological Synthesis, 28 Sep - 1 Oct 2026, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany - deadline today!
- Free online course (MOOC), AI and Environmental Sustainability, Lund University, Sweden
- PhD course, Global Environmental Governance Today – Actors, Institutions, Complexity, Lund University, Sweden
| | Dr. Michael Amoah Awuah, University of Bonn | | | | Dr. Alexia Faus, European Institute of the Mediterranean | | | | Dr. William Kakenmaster, Australian National University | | | | Dr. Poonam Keral, University of Hawaii Manoa | | | | Dr. Richard “Drew” Marcantonio, University of Notre Dame | | | | Dr. Erwin Nugraha, Scientia Sacra Sahitya | | | | Nosayaba Oka, Independent Researcher | | | | Sachin Siwakoti, Independent Researcher | | | | Dr. Sujoy Subroto, University of Calgary | | | | Dr. Navya Vikraman Nair, University of Waterloo | | | | Thant Thura Zan, Kyoto University | | | | | |
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