Advancing research on global environmental change and governance
The Earth System Governance Project is a global research network that aims to advance knowledge at the interface between global environmental change and governance. The network connects and mobilizes scholars from the social sciences and humanities researching at local and global scales.
Taskforces and Working Groups
Through these groups, we engage substantively with key issues of global environmental change confronting contemporary societies.
Creating and enhancing carbon sinks has become the newest pillar of climate policy in the era of the Paris Agreement, which calls for a ‘balance of sources and sinks’ on route to the ambitious temperature targets of 2C – or even 1.5C – by century’s end...
The Earth System Governance ‘Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation’ seeks to bring together scholars that share a common interest in making…
The Taskforce on Ocean Governance seeks to address the daunting multi-level challenge of oceans governance in the Anthropocene. It brings…
The Urban Working Group of the Earth System Governance Project was created at the end of a meeting on Urban…
The Asia and Pacific Working Group (formerly Asia-Pacific Working Group)seeks to initiate collective and collaborative dialogue and discussion among scholars…
The Planetary Justice Taskforce of the Earth System Governance Project brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are concerned…
The increasingly complex developments in the space sector bring a significant impact on earth system governance. With a diverse set…
This group gathers researchers from various disciplines who are interested in questions of democracy, power and legitimacy, and how these…
We are keen on exploring and discussing the challenges, possibilities, and opportunities one encounters when seeking to understand and explain…
Climate governance must better reflect characteristics of sectoral systems.
Human, animal and environmental health constitutes a critically important issue in relation to earth system governance (ESG), with far-reaching equity…
ESGRREW was created in 2016, opening an inclusive and ethical space where different perspectives can join forces to shape a common understanding of our world in law and policy
Aims and scope The ongoing loss of nature and biodiversity due to human activity, exacerbated by climate change, is one…
The “Decarbonization” Working Group is part of the “Task Force on Climate Governance”. It gathers researchers from various disciplines who…
This taskforce brings together researchers and practitioners exploring how humanity envisions and prepares for transformative environmental futures. In an era…
The Task Force on Earth System Law is composed of a large member network worldwide, which accommodates an interdisciplinary community of scientists focusing on the legal challenges of the Anthropocene and the many complex, multi-scalar governance challenges arising from within an Earth System context.
The Earth System Governance ‘Taskforce on the Sustainable Development Goals’ brings together an interdisciplinary global group of scholars and practitioners…
News and perspectives
Call for Coordinating Lead Authors and Lead Authors to Shape the next Earth System Governance Science Plan Since…
Strengthening South-South Collaboration in Earth System Governance The Earth System Governance (ESG) network’s South-South Initiative (SSI)…
2025 was a fruitful year for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Taskforce. The newly published edited volume, Essential…
Earth System Governance Publications
The project’s flagship publications seek to advance knowledge in our field and provide authoritative stances on existing and emerging aspects of earth system governance research
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