Transformations to Sustainability

Advancing transformations to more sustainable and equitable futures. Read more.

New funded projects

Twelve transnational projects receive €11.5 million for research on transformations to sustainability

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Get to know the T2S programme.

About the programme

Supporting innovative, social-science-led research on transformations to sustainability.

Publications & Media

Sharing articles, newsletters, videos and other resources on social transformations.

Transformations in practice

What do we mean by 'transformations in practice'? How can we make them happen?

Understanding Transformations

How does real, lasting social change come about?

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Network & Activities

Fostering knowledge exchange and building research skills around the world.

A programme of the International Science Council (ISC).

More about the programme

We aim to create a ‘Transformations Knowledge Base’ around social transformation that can inform the development of solutions to sustainability challenges for the long term.

The Transformations community brings together a growing network of researchers and practitioners who work towards social transformations in sustainability contexts.

Programme outputs include workshop documentation, webinars and written syntheses of knowledge.

Funded projects

ACKnowl-EJ

The ‘Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice’ project

Pathways

The ‘Transformative Pathways to Sustainability’ project

T-Learning

The ‘Transgressive Learning’ project

The programme funded 38 seed projects and three Transformative Knowledge Networks. Read more.

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What's new

Call for Papers: Handbook of Climate Change Management: Research, Leadership, Transformation

The increased frequency and severity of extreme weather and climate impacts around the world suggests that urgent efforts are needed to better understand and manage such climate phenomena. Importantly, climate change occurs in tandem with other global mega-trends, including population growth, urbanisation, habitat destruction, resource depletion, pollution of the oceans, environmental degradation, biodiversity pressures and burgeoning rates of […]

The political challenge of achieving transformations to 1.5ºC – the role of social justice

A knowledge brief published by the Transformations to Sustainability programme assesses the role of social justice as an organizing principle to enhance the political feasibility of a dramatic decarbonization trajectory. This is the second in a series of knowledge briefs to be published by the Transformations to Sustainability programme. The knowledge briefs synthesize findings from recent […]

March 2019 newsletter out now

The March 2019 edition of the Transformations to Sustainability newsletter is now available for download. The quarterly newsletter brings together the latest news and publications from the Transformative Knowledge Networks. Download it here. As the networks move into the final stages of their research projects, the newsletter highlights the ways in which their findings and […]