In March 2023, the Earth System Governance project launched the ‘South-South initiative’, which goal is to further foster the ESG network in the Global South, increase exchange between scholars, and explore new relevant research themes.
Following up from the innovative session held during the 2022 Conference ‘Earth system governance and the Global South: an open conversation’ and a network-wide survey, further efforts are being made to address research topics and concepts, didactical, methodological, and pedagogical approaches, as well as science-society interactions that are relevant in different contexts in the Global South.
Organizing Committee
The South-South initiative is led by an organizing Committee composed by early-career and senior researchers and facilitated by the Earth System Governance Project International Office.
Special Issue: Locating the ‘Global South’ in Earth System Governance
The Special Issue was completed in 2025. Explore the full issue in the Earth System Governance Journal.
Latest news
Report from webinar “How is the Global South Positioned within the Earth System Governance Network?”
Report prepared by Thaís Lemos Ribeiro and Dhanasree Jayaram
Strengthening South-South Collaboration in Earth System Governance The Earth System Governance (ESG) network’s South-South Initiative (SSI)…
Events
The South-South Initiative (SSI) will organize two activities at the 2026 Bath Conference on Earth System…
The Earth System Governance (ESG) Project's South-South Initiative and the ESG Research Centre Brasília invite you…
A day of South-South Dialogues’ workshops at the 2023 Conference at Radboud University
A South-South Dialogues day was be organized to build upon the research network between early career researchers (ECRs) and mid/senior scholars from and/or based in the so-called Global South in a more structured manner.
This event was also an opportunity to tackle the Conference theme ‘Bridging Sciences and Societies for Sustainability Transformations’ in different Southern contexts.
More information can be found on the webpage dedicated to this event.