Inequality and the Environment - Call for Early-Career Researchers

Inequality and the Environment Symposium, December 2026 - Call for Papers

This symposium for Early-Career Researchers presents and discusses original social-science approaches to environmental inequality across three streams: 

• Measuring inequalities in environmental impacts, contributions and capacity to act across social groups; 
• Understanding and identifying coalitions supporting or blocking environmental transformation; 
• Designing and evaluating public policies that respond to the challenges raised in the first and second streams.

Key open questions motivate this symposium: Which welfare regimes are compatible with deep decarbonization, and through what policy instruments? What role have economic and political inequalities played in slowing energy transitions and entrenching high-carbon production and consumption patterns? What political coalitions can sustain environmental transformation?

We invite PhD students and Post-Docs from economics, sociology, psychology, political science, geography, demography, history, environmental sciences and related fields to submit their papers and participate in the symposium. The event will take place on one day at Sciences Po (Paris). This symposium provides a platform to present original research, engage in discussions, and collaborate with other researchers. 

If you are ready to take on this challenge and contribute to the collective reflection, please read carefully the Call for Papers with Submission Guidelines - Deadline for submission: September 25th, 2026. 

Organized by CRIS, in partnership with Sciences Po - Institute for Environmental Transformations, the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics, the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and the Institute of Economics at Sant’Anna (Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pisa).