CALL FOR PAPERS: Socio-ecological Transition and Climate Justice: Crossroads of COP30 in the Amazon

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THEMATIC DOSSIER

Socio-ecological Transition and Climate Justice: Crossroads of COP30 in the Amazon

Submission Deadline: March  31, 2026

Liinc em Revista invites authors to submit articles for the thematic dossier ‘Socio-ecological Transition and Climate Justice: Crossroads of COP30 in the Amazon,’ scheduled for publication in May 2026.

The dossier will be organised by Liz Rejane Issberner, Philippe Léna and Felipe Milanez and aims to critically reflect on the developments of COP30, held in Belém in November 2025, and its implications for contemporary debates on climate justice, sustainability and alternatives to the development paradigm. 

By discussing global commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the conference brings back into focus the structural sources of these emissions, associated with patterns of production, consumption and land use, and inequalities between countries and regions in terms of their historical responsibility and mitigation capacity. The dossier thus seeks to critically examine the advances, impasses and contradictions of climate negotiations, questioning the limits of carbon market-centred policies and the tensions between the urgency of energy transition and the persistence of extractive and fossil fuel-dependent models.

The proposal is to bring together a broad set of reflections that articulate the limitations of multilateral agreements and the global power dynamics involved in the climate crisis, highlighting the challenges of a just energy transition, the difficulties of global climate governance, climate finance, local struggles, and the dispute over models for the future.

The dossier emphasises the importance of Amazonian leadership and the voices of the global South in building emancipatory solutions, recognising the strategic role of information, data and communication in the fight against climate obstruction in the political and epistemic disputes surrounding the environmental crisis.

Possible topics / Specific themes
The dossier welcomes theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary contributions that address the challenges of socio-ecological transition and climate justice from multiple perspectives. 

Interviews, experience reports, artistic, poetic and visual productions, and other forms of expression that contribute to broadening the debate and awareness of the impacts and possible paths in the face of the climate crisis, especially in the Amazonian context, are also welcome. Critical, comparative or situated analyses of local, regional and global experiences that problematise the political, epistemic and civilisational crossroads of COP30 in the Amazon are especially welcome.

Submissions may address, among others, the following thematic areas:

1. Fair socio-ecological and energy transition
Reflections on paths, contradictions and disputes surrounding energy transition and development models that reconcile social justice, sustainability and the sovereignty of peoples.
2. Climate governance, multilateralism and financing
Analyses of the limits of the international system in the face of global political fragmentation, corporate capture of multilateral spaces, North-South asymmetries and ecological debt. Includes debates on climate financing mechanisms and international agreements.
3. Resistance and re-existence in the face of the climate crisis
Studies on the dynamics of opposition to decarbonisation, greenwashing strategies, denialist discourses, and community, territorial, and agroecological practices that express concrete alternatives for transformation.
4. Climate justice, peoples' rights, and epistemologies of the South
Contributions that value indigenous, quilombola and traditional voices, knowledge and cosmologies in the formulation of emancipatory horizons and the redefinition of environmental justice.
5. Amazonia, geopolitics and sovereignty
Debates on the strategic role of Amazonia in the reconfiguration of global power relations, disputes over resources and the global energy transition.
6. Public policies, corporate regimes and false solutions
Criticism of national and international mitigation and adaptation policies, including market instruments, public-private partnerships and technocratic solutions such as geoengineering and carbon capture.
7. Alternatives to the development paradigm
Discussions on degrowth, good living, post-development and other proposals that challenge the dominant productivist rationality.
8. COP30 as a historic crossroads
Critical analyses of the role of COP30 in Belém as a political and symbolic milestone for the global South, its contradictions and potential for reconfiguring climate debates.
9. Education, communication and climate culture
Critical training, public communication of science, regional media and tackling misinformation, climate denial and other forms of obstruction of the socio-environmental agenda.
10. Information, data and power in the climate crisis
Information regimes, data flows, digital platforms and epistemic disputes that shape the production of meaning, policy formulation and the circulation and dispute of informational discourses on the Amazon, energy transition and climate justice.