Global Environmental Sustainability

This thematic engages with the rapidly changing structure of global environmental governance, with a view to identifying practical ways to galvanise transformative action for sustainability.

Tackling environmental sustainability is perhaps the most pressing global public policy challenge. This research cluster engages with the cutting-edge scholarship that is redefining understandings of global environmental governance, illustrating the shifting architecture of structures, actors and processes, and the increasing salience of dyadic relations within meta-regime complexes. Recent GGI events and activities have explored, for instance, the role of economic growth in the sustainability transition; youth engagement in global climate negotiations; the prospects for a shared agenda on climate change, biodiversity loss and health; pathways for a green post-Covid recovery; and the future of climate governance under the Paris Agreement.

Related publications, articles and events:

Report: An Economy for People and the Planet

Protest Sign: No Business on a Dead Planet (Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

Memo: Youth Voices in Climate Governance

Youth Climate Protest in Birmingham (Callum Shaw Unsplash)

Podcast: Vandana Shiva on Earth Demoracy

Morning Landscape, Tamil Nadu, India (Remi Clinton / Unsplash)

Memo: A Green Post-Pandemic Recovery

Interview: Accounting for Nature in Policy

Report: SDGs on Climate, Biodiversity and Health

Thematic Director

Nick Hughes is Associate Professor in Sustainable Resource Governance at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Governance. His research encompasses low carbon energy and sustainable resource use, considering technological and social solutions with a view to producing policy relevant recommendations.

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