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{"title":"North-south relations, responsibilities, and agendas in Earth System Governance: Have these changed in the Anthropocene?","authors":"Augusto Heras ,&nbsp;Joyeeta Gupta","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100251","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100251","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>On the G77's 60^th anniversary and the 50^th anniversary of the Declaration for a New International Economic Order, this paper explores the enduring complexities of North-South relations in development and climate governance. We ask: <em>What is the continuing relevance of the North-South narrative in Earth System Governance and climate change?</em> Utilising North-South literature, this paper examines these relations and responsibilities, emphasising the need to decolonise ESG by challenging entrenched power structures in climate governance. The analysis concludes: (a) the North-South dynamic is a flexible dichotomy reflecting the dominance of powerful nations/actors over the less powerful; (b) recurring patterns of North-South behaviour in controlling forums, agendas, and decisions marginalise Southern perspectives; and (c) such imbalances result in failures to govern ecological and social problems, while the North risks losing control over them. Without a more just approach addressing the North-South dichotomy, we all risk losing a stable and predictable climate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100251"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143696992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Explaining emission reductions in cities: Configurations of socioeconomic and institutional factors","authors":"Matteo Roggero ,&nbsp;Jan Kilian Fjornes ,&nbsp;Klaus Eisenack","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100252","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100252","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cities have taken center stage in the fight against climate change. Research identified key conditions shaping how cities tackle climate change but hasn't yet addressed how such conditions interact in order to reduce emissions. The present paper contributes to filling this gap through a crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 34 CDP-reporting cities, identifying combinations of institutional and socioeconomic factors that are systematically associated with emission reductions. Results show emission reductions both in presence and in absence of favorable socioeconomic conditions. Under favorable socioeconomic conditions, institutions seem central to the task of steering the capacities of the local business community and reaping scale benefits. Under unfavorable socioeconomic conditions, institutions seemingly play a key role in gathering resources, reaching out to broader networks on the international stage. Implications for policy and research are explored.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100252"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143654667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring plausible future scenarios of deep seabed mining in international waters","authors":"Aurora Cato,&nbsp;Philippe Evoy","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100249","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100249","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global transition to renewable energy has intensified the demand for critical minerals, which are essential components in key green technologies. Many of these minerals are abundant on the international seabed, but negotiations surrounding deep-sea mining regulations have met significant challenges. Developing countries, having historically been marginalized in the benefits of resource extraction, have expressed concern about the regulatory framework for deep-sea areas. Additionally, scientific understanding of the potential ecological impacts of deep-sea mining on marine ecosystems remains limited. Despite these concerns, the economic incentives for exploiting deep-sea minerals are driving pressure to finalize regulatory frameworks and commence mining activities. While speculation abounds regarding the future trajectory of deep seabed mining, significant uncertainties persist when considering its development in international waters. This paper explores these uncertainties and examines the potential future implications of global policy decisions for both ecological sustainability and economic outcomes. Drawing on document analysis and expert interviews, we identify critical uncertainties and other drivers of change shaping the future of deep-sea mining. Using the 2 x 2 ‘intuitive logics’ matrix method, we develop scenario narratives based on the two most critical uncertainties: the place of environmental management and redistribution of benefits in the nascent industry. The scenarios present possible futures for deep-sea mining in international waters, providing insights to inform regulatory decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100249"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143610511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Securing a just and healthy future for all: Bringing a planetary health lens to the Earth System Governance research framework","authors":"Annabelle Workman ,&nbsp;Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori ,&nbsp;Godfred Boateng ,&nbsp;Scott Carlin ,&nbsp;Sharon Friel ,&nbsp;Elise Moo ,&nbsp;Rebecca Patrick ,&nbsp;Alexandre San Martim Portes ,&nbsp;Rosalind Warner ,&nbsp;Kathryn Bowen","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Governance efforts to address environmental degradation and consequent impacts on human health and wellbeing have had limited effectiveness to date. A unified planetary health approach that is holistic and integrates stewardship and alternative ways of knowing, being and doing may provide more successful governance pathways. Accordingly, we developed a research agenda intended to pursue transformational pathways that progress planetary health and embrace a <em>modus operandi</em> of stewardship across multiple governance levels.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We used the 2018 Earth System Governance (ESG) research framework to guide a rapid review of the literature and establish a research agenda for planetary health within the context of earth system governance. We used a consensus process to support the identification and development of research questions. We developed a search strategy and used Scopus and PubMed to identify peer-reviewed literature published in English relating to planetary health and the four ESG contextual conditions: transformations, inequality, Anthropocene, and diversity.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>88 articles were included in the review. A majority were published between 2020 and 2023. Common topics included food systems and land use change, climate change, post-pandemic opportunities, as well as curriculum and research activities relating to planetary health. Systems and justice were key concepts. While interventions were commonly proposed in included articles, there was limited consideration of the role of governance.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>There remains scarce literature exploring fundamental questions on the relationship between planetary health and earth system governance. This presents an important opportunity to interrogate research questions pertaining to planetary health and earth system governance to support the urgent action. We propose initial questions that form the basis of a research agenda to extend our understanding of planetary health in the context of earth system governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100250"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143610513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Municipal capacities and institutional responses in the age of climate uncertainties","authors":"Tanvi V Deshpande","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Municipal governments in the global South with weak governance capacities and resources must urgently build their capacities to address climate impacts. Building on the concept ‘bringing the state back in’, the paper discusses the influence of ideational evolution within municipal governments on their capacity to pursue contextual climate policies. Ideational evolution within the government was traced by unpacking policymaking processes (learning, puzzling, and powering) and actors (governmental and non-governmental) involved. The framework explains how a global South municipal government improved its capacity to formulate and adopt an integrated, cross-sectoral and contextual climate policy without any domestic or international mandate. Triangulated information –(climate) policy documents, existing literature, interviews with policymakers-forms the basis of the study. In theorising from and for the global South, the study presents a framework, supported by empirics, on the influence of local and contextual ideation on municipal decision-making capacity to institutionally respond against climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100243"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"","authors":"Fronika de Wit","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100246","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100246"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Future directions for early career researchers in planetary health equity","authors":"Megan Arthur ,&nbsp;Charlotte Godziewski ,&nbsp;Katherine Sievert ,&nbsp;Sarah Boddington ,&nbsp;Amy Carrad ,&nbsp;Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori ,&nbsp;Babet de Groot ,&nbsp;Carlos Faerron Guzman ,&nbsp;Nicholas Frank ,&nbsp;Hridesh Gajurel ,&nbsp;James Hasler-Bail ,&nbsp;Edward Jegasothy ,&nbsp;Francis Nona ,&nbsp;Damilola Oluwemimo ,&nbsp;Sandra Samantela ,&nbsp;Alexandre San Martim Portes ,&nbsp;Annabelle Workman","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving social and health equity on a healthy planet requires attending to the structural drivers of intersecting crises of global environmental change, social inequities, and health inequities. A diverse group of early career researchers have formed a new network aligned in advancing work that promotes planetary health equity. This Perspective articulates proposed future research directions emerging from shared understandings of intersecting governance and policy challenges, including sections on transdisciplinary and co-productive knowledge paradigms; political economy and governance; policy integration; and opportunities to advance planetary health equity. We present this agenda with reference to a range of substantive environmental- and health-related domains, including food systems governance, trade policy, energy policy, urban planning, and education. As early career researchers in the emerging field of planetary health equity, these future directions for research are intended to offer novel avenues towards the goals of social and health equity in a stable Earth system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100245"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics matters! Political will as a critical condition for implementing the sustainable development goals","authors":"Marianne Beisheim ,&nbsp;Muriel Asseburg ,&nbsp;Eric J. Ballbach ,&nbsp;Karoline Eickhoff ,&nbsp;Sabine Fischer ,&nbsp;Nadine Godehardt ,&nbsp;Gerrit Kurtz ,&nbsp;Marcel Meyer ,&nbsp;Melanie Müller ,&nbsp;Stephan Roll ,&nbsp;Astrid Sahm ,&nbsp;Christian Wagner ,&nbsp;Claudia Zilla","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While commentaries often bemoan the lack of political will to “transform our world”, there is little analysis of country-level <em>politics</em> around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article aims to fill that gap through assessing the preferences and priorities of governments and local elites, as well as related conflicts around the SDGs. We want to investigate what political elites want to achieve through the SDGs. For this, we build on eleven exploratory country cases: Belarus, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Kenya, Palestine, Republic of Korea, Russia, South Africa, and Sudan. Alongside specific findings for these countries, the article presents conclusions on the significance of country-level politics for SDG implementation and three clusters of hypotheses for future research. The most prominent finding is governments’ emphasis on (pre-existing) top-priority programmes: Governments seek to make the SDGs serve their political objectives, while leveraging them for greater legitimacy. Other relevant aspects include state fragility and the SDG governance architecture at the national level. The article concludes with a discussion of policy-relevant implications and recommendations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100244"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143464318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bridging the adaptation-finance gap: Pathways for the green climate fund in the Pacific","authors":"Katherine Owens ,&nbsp;George Carter ,&nbsp;Susan Park ,&nbsp;Gemma Viney","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100247","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face significant challenges accessing essential climate finance for adaptation as these states become increasingly vulnerable to climate change. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) aims for a ‘paradigm shift’ toward climate-resilient development, but its structural innovations have yet to benefit the most vulnerable Pacific communities or establish strong local connections. The GCF's stringent accreditation requirements and complex project proposal processes hinder local adaptation efforts, leading to reliance on traditional donor-recipient relationships and international accredited entities. To address this, we identify how the GCF can reform its modalities to provide direct, simplified, and small-scale grants that prioritise locally-led adaptation approaches. Using metrics for success identified in Community-Based and Locally-Led Adaptation approaches, the article proposes criteria for structuring and evaluating these modalities. It advocates for a transformative funding window within the GCF to increase local adaptation grants in PICs and facilitate fund percolation from global to local levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100247"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental justice in conservation philanthropy: Do intermediary organizations help?","authors":"Jeffrey E. Blackwatters ,&nbsp;Michele Betsill ,&nbsp;Eugene Eperiam ,&nbsp;Trina Leberer ,&nbsp;Geraldine Rengiil ,&nbsp;Elizabeth Terk ,&nbsp;Rebecca L. Gruby","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many private philanthropic foundations are engaging intermediary organizations as a strategy to better integrate justice into their grantmaking. This study examines how intermediary organizations work in practice and how they can or cannot contribute to justice in conservation funding. We employed Q methodology and a knowledge co-production approach to examine grantees’ experiences of justice in their grantmaking relationship with a funding intermediary, the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT). Using a collaborative process of knowledge creation and interpretation, we identified three distinct perspectives: 1. <em>Intermediaries bridge gaps in justice</em>; 2. <em>Intermediaries are helpful but constrained</em>; and 3. <em>Intermediaries cannot solve injustice in conservation</em> <em>funding</em>. Our findings indicate that while intermediaries can play a vital role in advancing justice in grant-making relationships, they are not a silver bullet for addressing injustices that are inherent to funding dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 100232"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}