The Earth System Governance Project endorses the Summer School “Climate Action Beyond Governments: Assessing and Strengthening Integrity”, scheduled to take place on 22–26 June 2026 at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
The Summer School responds to a central challenge in Earth System Governance: while non-state and sub-national climate action has expanded rapidly, questions around integrity, accountability, justice, and real-world impacts remain pressing. The course focuses on how integrity of climate action can be strengthened while effectively contributing to low-carbon and climate resilient transformative change.
The Summer School aligns closely with the Earth System Governance community’s long-standing interest in Transformations, Agency and Architecture, and Justice and Allocation, as well as its commitment to supporting early-career scholars and practitioners. The course is explicitly inter- and transdisciplinary and welcomes participants from both academic and policy-oriented backgrounds. A limited number of scholarships is available and applications from the Global South are strongly welcome.
More information about the programme, including learning objectives and application details, can be found here.