Kendall Gardner is a second-year doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, supported by the US-UK Marshall Scholarship. Her research is in political theory, focusing on the relationship between climate-related land loss and territory. Specifically, she employs a critical methodology to challenge liberal theories of property and sovereignty through a “destabilised” land variable. She hopes to utilise these theories to support a just climate transition as communities around the world face rapid sea-level rise. In 2021, Kendall obtained her MSc in Comparative Political Thought from SOAS, University of London. Previously, she resided in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lorina Buhr is a postdoctoral researcher and participant of Research Line ‘Nature, Life and Human Intervention’ of the Dutch ESDiT consortium (ethics of socially disruptive technologies) . She gained her doctoral degree in 2021 for the thesis ‘Power and motion. On the meta-physics in the concept of political power proceeding from Aristotle’s dynamis’ (in German). Her research examines conceptual, ontological and normative aspects of human-induced finitude and irreversibility in nature, using the examples of extinction of species and technologies for de-extinction. Argueing for a broad approach to extinction and environmental losses, she is particularly interested in losses in the cryosphere and hydrosphere and their relationship to the biosphere and local communities.

Dominic Lenzi is an Assistant Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. Prior to this, he was a Research Associate in the working group Scientific Assessments, Ethics, and Public Policy (SEP). His research explores themes in climate justice and geoengineering, where he analyses the value assumptions of climate economics and mitigation pathways, and the justice implications of carbon dioxide removal technologies. His research also explores themes in environmental ethics and environmental politics, such as the values of ‘nature’ and sustainability in the Anthropocene, and the political economy of natural resources.

Topics: Sustainability, Future Paths, Democracy

Daniele Fulvi is a sessional Lecturer and Researcher at Western Sydney University, and he specializes in Modern and Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics. His first monograph, titled Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent will be published by Routledge in 2023. His current research focuses on the ethical and social dimensions of technoscientific responses to climate change – with a specific focus on synthetic biology.

https://westernsydney.academia.edu/DanieleFulvi

Erica Onnis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turin. She has been a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Cultures of Research” of the RWTH Aachen University (2021-2022) and a member of the Labont – Center for Ontology since 2015. Erica’s research interests lie in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science. In particular, her doctoral research concerned the nature of emergent phenomena, and the relation between the notion of emergence and those of reduction, novelty, complexity, and causation. Recently, she has been working on the ontology of food, food narratives, and their relationships with climate mitigation.

Laura García-Portela is a postdoctoral researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and a LaCaixa Fellow. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute (University of Fribourg) and a doctoral researcher at the interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Climate Change at the University of Graz. She has worked on green democracy, justice for loss and damage, principles of burden-sharing for climate justice, philosophy of attribution science, philosophy of climate law and emissions accounting.

Topics in the network: vulnerability and future paths

John Barry is a father, a recovering politician, Professor of Green Political Economy and Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action at Queens University Belfast.  He is also Co-Chair of the Belfast Climate Commission. What keeps him awake at night is the life opportunities and future wellbeing of his children in this age of the planetary crisis.  His areas of academic research include post-growth and heterodox political economy; the politics, policy and political economy of climate breakdown and climate resilience; socio-technical analyses of low carbon just energy and sustainability transitions; and the overlap between conflict transformation and these sustainability transitions. His latest book is The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon-Constrained World (Oxford University Press), and is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled The Greatest Story Never Told: Ecocidal Economic Growth and our Planetary Emergency.

Robert Wade is a PhD researcher in Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Natural and Built Environment. His research project is titled “The Political Economy of Landownership and Onshore Wind Energy” and is part of the wider, European MISTRAL project (https://mistral-itn.eu/).

Robert’s PhD research explores the role of landownership and landowners in onshore wind energy production in three European countries: Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. His research combines a property rights lens with the insights of heterodox rent theory to show that wind resources are owned or ‘assetized’ by landowners. This research then traces out the implications of these wind rights configurations in the three case study contexts and suggests alternative wind resource ownership arrangements which can contribute to a fair and rapid energy transition.

Fausto Corvino is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Practical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, where he is a member of the Financial Ethics Research Group. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Moral Philosophy in the DIRPOLIS Institute (Law, Politics and Development) at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy), where he also holds a Ph.D. in Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability. He is a member of Labont (Center for Ontology) at the University of Turin and the 3CSA – Center for Climate Change Studies and Sustainable Actions (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, IUSS Pavia). His main research interests lie in theories of justice, including global and intergenerational justice, philosophy of economics, and climate ethics. He is currently exploring the justice aspects of climate transition (and in particular of carbon pricing policies), the issues of fairness that carbon (and income) inequality poses for climate mitigation, and the reasons of self-interested reciprocity to care about future generations.

Fabian Schuppert is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Potsdam. His primary research interests are issues of social inequality, risk ethics and the normative dimension of climate transition. Fabian has been working on citizen assemblies, the legitimacy of transition processes, land rights in the context of climate change, the ethics of systemic risk, as well as the need for an alternative political economy. Together with Sabine Kuhlmann, Fabian is one of the academic board members for the University of Potsdam at the Einstein Center Climate Change and Public Policy of Human Settlements (ECCC).

Chris Armstrong is a professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Southampton. He works on global justice, climate justice, territorial rights, and natural resources. Some of his recent work has focused on the future of the ocean, and what just and sustainable oceanic governance would look like. But he is interested much more broadly in questions about just transitions, and in what kind of principles of fair burden-sharing and democratic inclusion we should adopt when we come to tackle major global problems.

Topic: Sustainability

Christian Baatz studied Environmental Science at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, and received his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Greifswald in 2017. Subsequently, he led a postdoctoral project at Kiel University. Since 2020, he isJunior Professor for Climate Ethics, Sustainability and Global Justice in the Department of Philosophy, and leads a transdisciplinary group of junior researchers investigating what indicates a just financing of adaptation to climate change in the Global South. Central to Christian’s work are ethical questions in connection with climate change. His current research questions include: How are international funds for climate change adaptation distributed, what characterizes a just distribution, and how could the current distribution practice be improved? By which criteria should measures for so-called Carbon Dioxide Removal be evaluated? Who has a claim to compensation for climate change related damages and risks and how and in which form should compensation be provided? Another research theme is the justification and application of human rights norms.

Konrad Ott holds a MA in philosophy, history and German philology from the University of Frankfurt and a PhD in philosophy. In 1997 he began an endowed professorship at the University of Greifswald. Between 2000 and 2008 he served as an active member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU). During this time Ralf Döring and he developed a theoretical concept of ”strong sustainability,” which was gradually brought together with a research program focusing concretely on the protection of nature and biodiversity, climate change, water resources, agriculture and remediation.

His philosophical expertise is in the fields of discourse ethics, Environmental Ethics, theories of justice, sustainability, ethical aspects of climate change, nature conservation justifications, and the normative basis for environmental policy.

I have recently also become involved with the conceptual issues of “post-growth” society.

Lukas Tank is a postdoctoral researcher at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. He is part of the ASMASYS Project aiming to develop an assessment framework for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal. He completed his PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a thesis on the ethcis of carbon pricing. Much of his recent research deals with the ethics of climate change in the age of dangerous climate change. He sees his work on carbon budgets, the relevance of the non-identity problem for our current situation, and climate engineering as different aspects of the more general question: How are we to act now that dangerous climate change, at least in its early stages, is no longer a future possibility but a present certainty?

Prof. Dr. Christian CALLIESS is Professor for Public and European Law at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and holder of an Ad Personam Jean-Monnet-Chair. From 2015 till 2018 he was on leave from academia in order to work as Legal Adviser to the European Political Strategy Center (EPSC), the In-House-Think-Tank of the President of the European Commission, and Head of its Institutional Team. From 2012-2014he was the legal representative of the German Parliament (Bundestag), appearing in the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Court of the EU (among others) in the ESM – as well as the OMT-Case.

Christian Calliess studied law at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Göttingen. After his First State Examination he received a Master in Advanced European Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). In 1995 he finished his Second State Examination in Berlin and obtained his PhD at the Europa-Institut of University of Saarbrücken with a book on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity in the EU, published in second edition in 1999. He joined the Europa-Institut as an Assistentprofessor in 1995, where he finished his habilitation treatise with a book on constitutional and environmental law in 2000 that was awarded the price of the Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht.

Eric Brandstedt is an associate professor in philosophy and senior lecturer in human rights studies at Lund University. His research interests include climate justice, intergenerational justice and methodological questions around normative political theory. He currently leads an interdisciplinary research project (funded by the Swedish Energy Agency) about a just transition to a low-carbon future. The project addresses the following questions: (1) What kinds of grievances does the transition to a low-carbon economy give rise to?; (2) What moral principles should be used to systematise and explain these grievances?; and (3) how can these grievances be dealt with in a fair way?

Prof. Dr. Anél du Plessis is Professor of Law and holds the South African Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability, Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa.  Her research focuses on normative and practical questions in sustainability law and governance with a focus on cities, climate change, federalism, democracy and the globalisation of urban governance.  One of her keen research interests is the balancing of interests and just transitions necessary to improve on climate mitigation and adaptation in African cities.