Video Resources

Earth System Governance TV

Some of our conference sessions and webinars are available on our YouTube channel. Explore below the playlists available.

No Fear in Early Career

No Fear in Early Career - Episode 1: Louis Kotze

In this series, members of the early career committee will go into conversation with with senior scholars, delving into their personal experiences as early career researchers. You'll hear about the ...challenges they faced, the opportunities they seized, and the lessons they learned along the way. They'll be asking questions like ‘how was life for you in your early career', or ‘what is the best advice you received?

To kick off this series, we have a great first episode lined up for you! Cebuan Bliss from the ESG Early Career Committee chats to Louis Kotze, a senior scholar from Northwest University and a valued member and co-chair of the ESG Scientific Steering Committee. Louis will be sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience, offering a unique perspective on making your way from your PhD to a longer, meaningful career in ESG research.

Tune in to this ESG YouTube channel @ Earth System Governance TV to catch the first episode and follow along as we explore the insights of senior scholars in the ESG network. #ESG #EarlyCareer #InterviewSeries #Inspiration.[+] Show More

No Fear in Early Career - Episode 1: Louis Kotze

In this series, members of the early career committee will go into ...

No Fear in Early Career - Episode 2: Cristina Inoue

In this series, members of the early career committee will go into ...

No Fear in Early Career - Episode 3: Aarti Gupta

In this series, members of the early career committee will go into ...

2022 Toronto

Opening Plenery Session of the 2022 Toronto Conference with Keynote from Tzeporah Beman.

This conference was opened by the Conference Chairs, and the Oran R. Young Prize for best early career paper was presented.

The keynote presentation was by Tzeporah Berman: "Oil Politics in ...a World on Fire"

"After a summer of record heatwaves, floods and fires sweeping the planet and displacing millions of people, the worlds governments in New York in September and did…very little to slow down the devastating impacts of climate change. Reflecting on her experiences meeting the CEO’s of oil companies, advising governments, blockading fossil fuel projects and now building a campaign for a new global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, Tzeporah Berman joins the 2022 Conference on Earth System Governance to discuss what’s holding us back from climate progress, whether Net Zero commitments are hurting or helping and whether there is reason for hope in a world on fire."[+] Show More

Opening Plenery Session of the 2022 Toronto Conference with Keynote from Tzeporah Beman.

This conference was opened by the Conference Chairs, and the Oran R. ...

#ESG2022 Building responses to socio ecological crisis in Latin America

Latin America is a world region with a highly rich natural endowment. ...

#ESG2022 Fair ecological transition: From hybrid mini-publics to a responsive deliberative system

How is it possible to decide democratically, thanks to deliberation, ...

How is it possible to decide democratically, thanks to deliberation, facing the different pluralisms at stake in mini-publics composed of ordinary citizens and experts, and to integrate their proposals into ...the existing political institutions, with their respective responsibilities? The main problem of this session inspired by the Responsiveness project is that of the transition, adjustment, and sensitivity of knowledge to decision in all its forms. Indeed, responsiveness translates a form of responsibility, understood as sensitivity, adjustment and appropriate reaction. The session focuses on the knowledge mobilized for the ecological transition (ET), a mass of data and heterogeneous knowledge that needs to be adjusted. Similarly, the ET calls for a transition, not to say a translation of knowledge. One transition therefore calls for others.

This transition is as much about practices, habits and disciplinary productions that need to be adjusted to each other, as it is about their adaptation to the or their understanding (sensitivity) by the most heterogeneous audiences, for instance, Citizens assemblies for the climate.

In these three cases, transitions and adaptations that take into account the sensitivity of audiences and contexts are expected at the level of:

o the production of (academic) knowledge,

o decision support, whether for decision-makers with the most varied authorities, or

o for heterogeneous audiences or citizens chosen by sortition to form pluralistic assemblies assisted in their reflections by experts from several disciplines.

Constituted in an interdisciplinary manner, the panel will venture beyond a juxtaposition of knowledge, to face the challenges of moral, political and epistemic pluralisms (Reber, 2016, 2022), of co-argumentations in interdisciplinary fields of the finding of the right place of mini-publics in the existing institutional system, of the co-dependence of descriptive-predictive and normative sciences. They speakers will contribute from different perspectives (law, political sciences, sociology, philosophy) to the deliberation, as a creative rhetorical resource for complex multilevel democracies. This form of reflexive governance will be informed by debates from the theory of deliberative democracy and analysis from recent case studies, like the French Grand débat national, the Citizen convention for the climate or the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Speakers:

Bernard Reber, Sciences Po University Paris, France

Aarti Gupta, Wageningen University

James Patterson, Utrecht University

Karen Backstrand, Stockholm University[+] Show More

#ESG2022 Joining the fray: Researcher Engagement in the Sustainability Transitions Practice

This semi-plenary explores recent efforts to link academic research ...

This semi-plenary explores recent efforts to link academic research more directly to social change processes that can accelerate societal transformations towards sustainability. At a point when pressures on global ecosystems ...and the associated governance challenges are increasingly acute, it is important to investigate how academic research and researchers can more effectively be mobilized to support societal change processes. In many contexts this will require moving beyond traditional models of research, dissemination, and knowledge synthesis to embrace more practically engaged transdisciplinary processes involving stakeholders in processes of collaboration, co-investigation, co-design and co-construction. Such processes can integrate different forms of knowledge, bringing them to bear to define transformative projects, strengthen the position of change agents, identify and overcome practical barriers to change, and accelerate progress towards sustainability.

Speakers at this semi-plenary will present inspiring examples of how Earth System Governance project researchers are trying to engage with this challenge, discuss projects and initiatives with which they have personal experience, and examine how these processes were structured to advance systemic change. The speakers will also explore the many difficulties associated with this type of work. These include decisions about the scale and form of intervention, the selection of collaborators, the negotiation of power dynamics, potential tension between societal commitments and academic rigor and independence, high transaction costs in comparison to other research approaches, outcome assessment and self-critical reflection, and implications for career path progression.

Ultimately the goal of the session is to encourage more colleagues from the ESG network to engage in the messy world of practical change acceleration.

This semi-plenary is sponsored by the Transition Accelerator, a Canadian not for profit focused on accelerating movement to net zero GHG emissions. For the organization’s guiding philosophy see: https://transitionaccelerator.ca/blueprint-for-change/

James Meadowcroft, School of Public Policy, Carleton University

Building transition pathways: the experience of the Transition Accelerator

Sarah Burch, University of Waterloo

Supporting and accelerating transformative sustainability experiments - an ecosystem approach

Katinka Wijsman, Utrecht University

At the Edge: Collaborations for Shoreline Resilience[+] Show More

#ESG2022 New Directions in Transnational Climate Governance, hosted by Sussex University

This online semi-plenary event will look at emerging trends and ...

Sustainable Development Goals

The Political Effects of the SDGs since 2015 - Findings from the global SDG Impact Assessment

Official virtual side event to the HLPF, July 5th 2022

The session takes stock of the core findings of the SDG Impact Assessment and concludes with a high-level discussion on how the ...2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can move beyond political discourse. Panelists discuss how to galvanize solutions in all societal sectors that lead to fundamental and transformational change. The knowledge obtained during this side-event serves as valuable input for the 2023 midterm review of the SDGs.

The discussion is based on the key findings of the global SDG Impact Assessment, the first meta-analysis of the available scientific knowledge about the steering effects of the SDGs. 61 researchers across the globe were involved in assessing a body of over 3000 scientific studies on the SDGs.

The SDG Assessment is an open access Cambridge University Press publication, access here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/political-impact-of-the-sustainable-development-goals/3EA0D6589094B68A527FCB05C895F73E#fndtn-information.

The recently published Nature Sustainability article, 'Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals,' presents the key findings of the SDG Assessment, read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00909-5#:~:text=Within%20countries%2C%20the%20political%20impact,institutional%20steering%20that%20promotes%20inclusiveness.[+] Show More

The Political Effects of the SDGs since 2015 - Findings from the global SDG Impact Assessment

Official virtual side event to the HLPF, July 5th 2022 The session ...

Launch Event of the SDG Impact Assessment, an Associated Event to the 2022 Stockholm +50 Conference

"Taking Stock and Moving Forward: Lessons Learned from an Assessment ...

Have the Sustainable Development Goals had any political impact? Experts share their findings #SDGs

Attend the event: ...

GlobalGoals Webinar Series - Methods for Analysing the Steering Effects of the SDGs

Over the course of 2021 and early 2022, we are presenting the findings ...

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