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The Earth System Governance Journal was launched in 2019 (an open access publication with Elsevier). There are 25 volumes as of August 2025. The journal is open access and designed to integrate discourses from local to global in governance research, with a focus on earth-system processes. According to the journal's publisher, the CiteScore of this journal is currently 10.2 and its Impact Factor is 4.6. The journal's h-index is 23. The book series on earth system governance by the MIT Press is designed to publish key research findings from members of the Earth System Governance Project and others, with a preference for cutting-edge monographs. Books in this series offer perspectives from a variety of disciplines, levels of governance and methods with the common aim to analyze current systems of earth system governance with a view to increased understanding and possible improvements and reform. The Cambridge Elements series on Earth System Governance focuses on current governance research relevant for practitioners and scientists. The series is aimed at providing ideas for policy improvements and analyses of socio-ecological systems by interdisciplinary and influential scholars. To mark the 10-year anniversity of the ESG Project, the Project collaborated with Cambridge University Press to summarize research conclusions in 2019. Eleven books were published in this series.
=== Organizing conferences ===
Since 2007, the ESG Project has organized major scientific conferences on topics of governance and global environmental change:
2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: 'Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability'. 2008 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Change: 'Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change'. 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: 'Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet'. 2010 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: 'Social dimensions of environmental change and governance'. 2011 Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges'. 2012 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Towards Just and Legitimate Earth System Governance'. 2013 Tokyo Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Complex Architectures, Multiple Agents'. 2014 Norwich Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Allocation and Access in the Anthropocene'. 2015 Canberra Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Democracy and Resilience in the Anthropocene'. 2016 Nairobi Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Confronting Complexity and Inequality'. 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Allocation & Access in a Warming and Increasingly Unequal World'. This conference was co-hosted by Lund University during its 350-year celebration. 2018 Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Governing Global Sustainability in a Complex World'. 2019 Mexico Conference on Earth System Governance: 'Urgent Transformations and Earth System Governance: Towards Sustainability and Justice'. In 2020, Bratislava was meant to be the host, but the conference was rescheduled for 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 Toronto Conference: 'Bridging Sciences and Societies for Sustainability Transformations'. 2023 Nijmegen, The Netherlands: 'Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance'. 2024 Online event: Earth System Governance Forum on 'Re-imagining Earth System Governance in an Era of Polycrisis'. 2025 Johannesburg, South Africa in a collaboration between the Transformations Community and the ESG Project: ‘Navigating Sustainability Transformations Towards Justice and Equity’.
=== Organizing taskforces and working groups === Taskforces are formal groups that mobilize scholars to collaboratively engage with key issues of governance of the environment and sustainability, within a well-defined research area and in alignment with the Earth System Governance research agenda. Taskforces are community-driven, commonly led by senior Research Fellows or Lead Faculty. There are currently nine active task forces: Earth-Space Governance, Planetary Justice, Earth System Law, Ocean Governance, Anticipatory Governance, Sustainable Development Goals, Knowledge Cumulation, Climate Governance, and Governance of Nature and Biodiversity. Working groups are flexible research collaborations with more narrow or specific focus areas and commonly with limited time horizons. These groups either bring together a sub-community within a Taskforce or else are self-standing and mobilize scholars to study an unexplored area of earth system governance research. There are currently eight active Working Groups: Governance of Social-Ecological Systems, Decarbonization, Planetary Health Justice, Democracy, Urban, Asia-Pacific, Carbon Removal and Environment, Representation and Rights.
=== Interacting with affiliated projects === In addition to its core activities, such as conferences, taskforces and working groups, the ESG Project interacts with many smaller research projects that have been formally affiliated with the larger network. Such affiliated projects are formally accepted by the ESG Project's scientific steering committee, and its research findings are typically discussed at the annual conferences of the ESG Project. Some of the affiliated projects specifically focus on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, for example the GlobalGoals Project (from 2020 to 2025, funded by the European Research Council through an Advanced Grant awarded to Professor Frank Biermann). Examples of other affiliated projects that are current (as of 2024) or recently completed include:
Sustainability Governance of China’s Global Infrastructure Investments (SGAIN) SocioEconomic Systems and Earth Systems Transformations Community Governing the EU’s Climate and Energy Transition in Turbulent Times (GOVTRAN) (2018 to 2021, funded by Erasmus+ programme of the European Union) LO-ACT: Low Carbon Action in Ordinary Cities, a five-year project that started in 2019 and was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Climate Backlash: Contentious Reactions to Policy Action (BACKLASH), a five-year project that started in 2021, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. GreenDeal-NET: Governing the EU's Transition towards Climate Neutrality and Sustainability, formed in 2022 and co-funded through the EU's Erasmus+ programme