Embracing care: a case study on care-based approaches to curation
In the heart of Birmingham, ORT Gallery is reimagining how cultural institutions can operate In the heart of Birmingham, ORT Gallery is...
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Arijit Goswami & Rachel Masika
- Jun 11
Women missing: Dismantling gender bias across diverse sectors
Gender biases are a real roadblock to achieving progressive change, so how can we move past them to unlock transformation?
Lauren Danielowski
- Jun 4
Measuring the true cost of care
The vital importance of emphasising care work to advance gender justice Lauren Danielowski is a PhD student in the department of...
Dr Cathy Mungall-Baldwin
- Mar 28
Unveiling Eco-Ableism: The Hidden Costs of Green Policies on Disability Communities
Discover the unseen impacts of 'eco-ableism' as green policies collide with the needs of people with disabilities.
Dr Dominik Havsteen-Franklin
- Mar 1
A world reimagined: using art to shape a better future
Exploring the role of art in just transition
Eseosa Joy Sowemimo
- Dec 29, 2023
Reimagining the Social Contract: An African Perspective
This contribution is published as part of the UNRISD Think Piece Series, The Time is Now! Why We Need a New Eco-Social Contract for a...
GEC and UNRISD
- Aug 28, 2023
Research to Action—Global Policy Seminar for a New Eco-Social Contract
29 - 30 Aug 2023 Background to the Seminar The current state of multiple and overlapping global crises presents an urgent need for a new...
GEC and UNRISD
- Aug 27, 2023
Global Study on New Eco-Social Contracts
The different contributions in this global study aim to catalyse debates and knowledge exchange. They explore examples of...
Mauro Pucheta, Lauren Danielowski and Daniela Chávez Mendoza
- Aug 23, 2023
Informal Workers and Just Transitions: Toward a New Eco-Social Contract
A transition to a more equitable and sustainable economy must address the needs and concerns of informal workers.
Ellen Ehmke
- Jun 27, 2023
An Eco-Social Contract for Sustainable Digital Societies
In today’s world in which analogue and digital lives are ever more intertwined, the fight for just and sustainable societies must be...
GEC and UNRISD
- Mar 22, 2023
Youth-led Solutions for a New Eco-Social Contract
22 Mar 2023 For decades, global campaigns consisting of youth climate strikes, advocacy for gender equality, parliamentary protests and...
GEC and UNRISD
- Feb 22, 2023
Shaping the Eco-Social Contract: Perspectives on Just Energy Transitions from Around the World
22 Feb 2023 A basic principle of the just transition toward ecologically and economically sustainable societies is the need to address...
GEC and UNRISD
- Jan 20, 2023
Re-negotiate: A New Social Contract in an Age of Crises
20 Jan 2023 Despite thirty years of desperate warnings from scientists and civil society, we have so far failed to address the looming...
Najma Mohamed and Patrick Huntjens
- Jan 18, 2023
Dismantling the Ecological Divide: Toward a New Eco-Social Contract
Without nature our economies cannot function, and our societies
cannot survive.
Carlos Villaseñor
- Dec 15, 2022
Evaluating Existing Transformations: The Case for a Just Energy Transition
In the search for a new eco-social contract, we must not ignore
the state of current global efforts to achieve a just energy
transition.
GEC and UNRISD
- Nov 29, 2022
Towards a New Eco-Social Contract: The Case of Nepal and Chile
29 Nov 2022, 14:00 - 15:15 CEST At the core of any social contract—that is, the implicit understandings and agreements between citizens...
Alina Saba and Gabriele Koehler
- Aug 29, 2022
Towards an Eco-Social Contract in Nepal: The Role of Rights-Based Civil Society Activism
This thematic brief examines the history of some of Nepal’s major policy changes since the country’s emergence from a civil conflict in 2006
GEC and UNRISD
- Jun 28, 2022
Mobilizing Research and Action for a New Eco-Social Contract
29 June 2022, 14:00 CEST Addressing Historical Injustices from Indigenous Perspectives for New Eco-Social Contracts—Keynote Speech by...
Manisha Desai
- Apr 12, 2022
Going Beyond the Social: Communitarian Imaginaries as Inspirations for Rethinking the Eco-Social Contract?
This brief explores three communitarian imaginaries, or world views, as potential inspirations for a new eco-social contract.
ElsaMarie D'Silva
- Mar 28, 2022
Putting Women at the Centre of Sustainable Development: Rethinking the Eco-Social Contract
The time is now to put women at the centre of development not only because it is sustainable, but it is the right thing to do.
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