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2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance: ‘Governing Accelerated Transitions: Justice, Creativity, and Power in a Transforming World’

Event start: 20 October 2022
End date: 24 October 2022

Event description

The 2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance was held on 20-24 October in Toronto, Canada. The conference was hosted by the University of Toronto, and the University of Waterloo together with the Earth System Governance Project, with a focus on ‘Governing accelerated transitions: justice, creativity, and power in a transforming world’.

Conference Streams

The 2022 Toronto Conference was organized around the five analytical lenses structuring the new earth system governance research agenda, as captured in the Earth System Governance 2018 Science and Implementation Plan; and a sixth stream focusing on specific issues and challenges that emerge as efforts are made to accelerate the social, political, and technological shift towards more fundamentally sustainable and inclusive social-ecological systems, societies, and polities.

Hosts

  • University of Toronto
  • University of Waterloo

Co-hosts & Sponsors

  • Utrecht University
  • TRANSFORM Project
  • Sciences Po
  • National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • University of Sussex
  • Transition Accelerator

Chairs

  • Matthew Hoffmann
  • Sarah Burch
  • Steven Bernstein

 

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