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{"title":"Ethnic-racial approach to the SDG: promoting a Global South perspective to the 2030 Agenda and sustainable development","authors":"Thiago Gehre Galvão ,&nbsp;Tatiana Dias Silva ,&nbsp;Rodrigo Ramiro ,&nbsp;Ana Luísa Jorge Martins ,&nbsp;Yara Resende M. Martinelli ,&nbsp;Richarlls Martins ,&nbsp;Juarez Tadeu de Paula Xavier ,&nbsp;Rômulo Paes de Sousa","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100272","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article focuses on the Brazilian proposal of a new SDG 18 emphasizes fighting ethnic and racial inequalities as a pivotal concern to a truly just, equal and sustainable world. Using Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) we reviewed an extensive literature and make the analysis of official documents regarding the 2030 Agenda. This research builds a theoretical framework on the SDG politics and culture trough an ethnic-racial lens, engaging the ideas and concepts of contemporary black and indigenous thinkers. It critically examines the SDG 18 as an instrument to face Governance through Global Goals limitations. From a set of interviews with key government and non-government stakeholders we address challenges, opportunities and a vision of the future on a post2030 Agenda.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"25 ","pages":"Article 100272"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144480271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Where is the “Global South” located in scientific research?","authors":"Pierre Mazzega ,&nbsp;Rugmini Devi M. ,&nbsp;Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although the term “Global South” has been increasingly invoked by heads of State as a call for enhanced multilateralism and institutional reform, its academic conceptualization remains underdeveloped. Therefore, we investigate how and where scientific knowledge about the Global South is produced, using a meta-analysis of around 17,000 articles [1994–2024] indexed in Scopus database. The paper shows that authors and funding are predominantly from Global North institutions, particularly the United States. However, rising powers are increasingly active contributors, notably South Africa, India, China and Brazil. The most frequent research topics include globalization, COVID-19, climate change, gender issues, neoliberalism, decolonization and sustainability. The results also reveal the centrality of Africa in the debate, and the underrepresentation of Global South institutions in leading journals. The conclusion calls for more scientific collaboration to improve visibility of knowledge produced in the Global South institutions and suggests that ESG may be a key player.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"25 ","pages":"Article 100269"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144298446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"","authors":"Christian Winkler","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100273","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"25 ","pages":"Article 100273"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144563270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","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":"2025-04-01","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":"Frogs, coalitions, and mining: Transformative insights for planetary health and earth system law from Ecuador's struggle to enforce Nature's rights","authors":"Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío ,&nbsp;Mario A. Moncayo-Altamirano ,&nbsp;Andrea Terán-Valdez ,&nbsp;Gustavo Redin-Guerrero ,&nbsp;Carlos Varela ,&nbsp;Stephen Posner ,&nbsp;Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100253","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100253","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pachamama, Mother Earth, faces a mass extinction threat. A radical transformation in human systems is essential, guided by equity and justice at local and global scales. This transformation must reconfigure the World-System's power structures, impacting the ecosphere (ecological functions, biodiversity, and resource regimes) and the ethnosphere (ontological, epistemological, and legal pluralism). Together, these shape the Pluriverse—a planet of many worlds. The status quo is unsustainable. Effective solutions must prioritize a just transition that integrates the pluriverse. Alternatives from the so-called Global South offer valuable tools for this shift, such as the Rights of Nature, which views nature as a rights-bearing entity, not merely an object of regulation. The Llurimagua case—a dispute over a mining concession in Ecuador's cloud forest—illustrates this approach, providing a unique opportunity to rethink Earth System Governance and address the Anthropocene Gap (i.e., disconnect with Earth System Law), crucial for tackling planetary health challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100253"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143850097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The three missed opportunities of the UNFCCC's New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance","authors":"W. Pieter Pauw","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100255","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100255"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","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":"2025-04-01","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":"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":"2025-04-01","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":"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":"2025-04-01","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":"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":"2025-04-01","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}