
World Biodiversity Forum 2026
Join researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from around the world at the fourth edition of the World Biodiversity Forum, a global event dedicated to advancing dialogue and action on biodiversity.

Join researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from around the world at the fourth edition of the World Biodiversity Forum, a global event dedicated to advancing dialogue and action on biodiversity.

Learn the foundations of transformative community organising in this interactive online workshop hosted by Act Build Change. This session explores how to build collective power while centering care, helping participants create sustainable, people-focused movements.

Explore how emerging technologies, especially AI, can be used responsibly to address environmental challenges across regions.

A learning space focused on practices that strengthen the conditions for transformational change, including relational, healing-centered approaches and shifts in power, narratives, and success.

This spring, cCHANGE is offering a six-week online course on Scaling Transformative Change. Each 2-hour session will be led by Karen O’Brien, and include a short lecture followed by an activity, discussion, and breakout sessions. The aim is to collectively explore how scaling works in practice. If you’re trying to create real-world impact, move from ideas to action, or wonder how to scale without losing depth, this course may be for you.

In an era of polycrisis the need to interrogate the role of technologies in shaping our shared future has never been more urgent. This interdisciplinary conference will explore technological systems in all their diversity — from water and energy infrastructures, agroecology and nature-based solutions to synthetic biology, and digital technologies

The Collective Impact Action Summit centers on 30+ practical sessions and cross-sector convening around areas like community engagement, narrative change, and AI for collaboration, emphasizing applied tools and real-world examples for advancing systems change.

The SRI Congress centers on interactive workshops, innovation showcases, and cross-sector sessions designed to co-create real-world sustainability solutions, not just present research.

The upcoming CBA20 conference continues to center locally led climate action and peer learning, reinforcing the importance of place-based responses within global climate efforts.

The World Resources Institute's recent breakdown shows carbon removal expanding across multiple approaches, with growing attention to feasibility, scale, and unintended consequences.

A recent SocSES dialogue with Frances Westley, Brian Walker, and others reflects on how social-ecological systems thinking has evolved—and what it may need to become as conditions of disruption intensify.

In contexts where academic knowledge and transformative agendas are devalued - or even actively undermined - how can our research and teaching practices remain engaged, critical, and accessible?