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Newsletter September 2026 | Our 2026 annual conference brought together 456 delegates from 51 countries in the beautiful city of Bath, creating a truly global gathering of our community. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who joined us and to Conference Chair Yixian Sun and his team at the University of Bath for organising such a memorable event.
In this and coming newsletters, we will share reflections, highlights, and resources from the conference. Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn for more conference throwbacks. Photo Anna Barclay. |
Revisit the Bath plenaries
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Couldn't make it to this year's ESG conference? Missed a plenary session? Or would you like to revisit the discussions? You can now watch the conference plenary sessions on our YouTube channel. Catch up on the opening plenary, the community town hall on the next Science Plan, and the closing plenary. To the video playlist → | Early career researchers' reflections from Bath
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Read reflections from two of our Early Career Committee representatives, Muhammad Faisal Sharif (University of Bath) and Anna Berg Grimstad (Uppsala University) as they navigated their first ever Earth System Governance conference. To the blogpost → | Scientific Steering Committee membership transition |
We are entering an exciting new chapter for the ESG Project. We are happy to welcome Rakhyun Kim, Jean-Frédéric Morin, Marie Claire Brisbois, Kanako Morita, and Kennedy Mbeva to our Scientific Steering Committee, and Steffen Bauer and Yixian Sun as our new co-chairs. At the same time, we extend our sincere thanks to outgoing members Chukwumerije Okereke, Aarti Gupta, Jonathan Pickering, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, and James Patterson, whose leadership and dedication have helped shape the Project and strengthen our global research community over the past years. Read the full article → | Online book launch | Our Planetary Condition
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What would it mean to do politics with the Earth? Join authors Frederic Hanusch, Liza B. Bauer, Clemens Finkelstein, and Claus Leggewie for the online launch of Our Planetary Condition: Foundations for a Politics with the Earth, published by MIT Press. Featuring reflections from Milja Kurki, Madhulika Banerjee, and Nils Gilman, opening remarks by Frank Biermann and Oran Young, moderated by Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings. 2 December, 17:00-18:00 CET. Read more and register → | | | | An update from Research Centre Central and Eastern Europe |
Research Centre Central and Eastern Europe – CETIP recently hosted a series of co-creation events connecting science, creativity, and local knowledge in the Czech-Slovak Beskydy region. A key highlight was the opening of the exhibition Coexistence of Man and Nature – Our Beskydy, inviting visitors to reflect on the dynamic relationship between people and nature. Read the full story → | Introducing Earth System Governance | New to Earth System Governance or looking for teaching resources? This short two-minute video by Anna van der Kaaden
introduces the concept and its key ideas. Created in collaboration with Rak Kim and Frank Biermann at Research Centre Utrecht, the video offers an accessible entry point for anyone interested in the field. Watch the video → | The Ocean Taskforce relaunched in Bath |
At ESG 2026, members of the Ocean Taskforce came together to relaunch the network and chart its future direction. With new leadership, a renewed mission, and plans for future collaboration, the taskforce welcomes researchers interested in ocean governance, including an ECR to help coordinate the group's activities. Learn more and join the next online meeting on 21 October. Get the details and register → | Extended deadline for the call of abstracts to the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability 2027 Conference. New deadline 31 October. Learn more and submit your abstract → | | | | | New publication. Transformative Governance for Complex Socio-Ecological Systems - Innovation, AI, and Indigenous Knowledge in Africa, by Pitshou Moleka. Read more → | | | Research Fellow Publications | - Ambe-Uva, T. N., & Katz-Rosene, R. (2026). Protein transition. In J. Sumner & M. Classens (Eds.), Teaching food studies. UK: Edward Elgar.
- Bulkeley, H., Schoenefeld, J.J., Zeigermann, U., Eckersley, P., Haupt, W., Kochskämper, E., Otto, A., Papin, M. and Zengerling, C. (2026). Towards a research and policy agenda for climate action in smaller municipalities and rural regions. npj Climate Action.
- Friedman, R.S., Massingham, E., Wilson, K.A. and Dean, A.J. (2026). Public opinion about community participation in natural resources governance: A population survey in Indonesia and Malaysia. Environmental Policy and Governance.
- Havice, E., Gray, N.J., Hartman Davies, O., Legroux, N., Lehman, J., Melvin, E.C., Peters, K., Quesnot, T., Vadrot, A.B.M. and Campbell, L. (2026). Many knowledges for one ocean. npj Ocean Sustainability.
- Hildebrand, E.W. and Vadrot, A.B.M. (2026). Negotiating futures: Three visions for the International Seabed Authority. Geopolitics.
- Hughes, I., Rochford, S., O’Neill, M., Ó Gallachóir, B., Hernandez, A.M., Mullaly, G. & Byrne, E. (2026) Transformative Research and Social Inclusion: An Educational Research‐Policy Dialogue. Social Inclusion.
- Malode, S.N. and Singh, A. (2026). A multi-scalar indicator framework for assessing net-zero pathways: Bridging planetary boundaries with sub-national climate policy actions. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators.
- Vinoy, V.D. and Jayaram, D. (2026). Energy Justice and transitions in India: Between security and developmental imperatives. Politics and Governance.
- Wardekker, A., S. Bremer, and M.H. Jensen. (2026). Framing time: How temporalities shape climate change adaptation. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
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- PhD Position in Long-term Climate Governance, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
- 2 Assistant Professorship Positions in Sustainability Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
- 2 faculty positions in Energy and Climate Change, Harvard University, USA
- Call for manuscripts to Frontiers in Resilient and Inclusive Aquatic Food Systems: Centering Collective Action
- Save the date,
8th Biennial Transformations Conference (TC27), Bilbao, Spain, 11-14 Oct 2027
- Online event, Powering the next generation to lead climate action with Christiana Figueres and the Outrage + Optimism climate podcast, hosted by University of Bath.
| | Carles Vañó-Agulló, CIEMAT | | | | Christo Odeyemi, Independent Researcher | | | | Elsa Tsioumani, Transdisciplinary Institute for Environmental and Social Studies | | | | Eric Yankson, Namibia University of Science and Technology | | | | Juliana Gonçalves, TU Delft | | | | Montse Pijoan, IRD (French National Research Institute for Development) | | |
Nicole Russo Guerrato, James Cook University
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Nila Kamil, CCROM-SEAP, IPB University
| | | | Päivi Tikkakoski, University of Helsinki | | | | Priya Priyadarshini, IIT-Kanpur | | | | Rahdiansyah, Universitas Islam Riau | | | | Sadaf Taimur, Western University | | |
Sanoj, Jawaharlal Nehru
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| | | | Shizuku Sunagawa, Université Laval | | | | Sukthawee Suwannachairop, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science
| | | | Yanina Kowszyk, Polytechnic University of Catalonia | | | |
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