Themes & Schedule

ICECA 2026 brings together diverse conversations on climate justice, gender, culture, health, finance, ecosystems, technology, and sustainable futures.

Main Theme

Commoning Our Futures with Climate Justice

Roots & Resonance: Culture, Education, and Intergenerational Power

Ecofeminism as praxis: linking patriarchy and ecological destruction
Cultural resilience, language loss, and climate change in Indigenous and coastal communities
Intergenerational transfer of Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge
Youth-led climate movements in the Global South
Environmental education, campus activism, community outreach, and service learning
Storytelling, oral history, arts, and climate fiction as tools for climate awareness

Embodied Earth: Health, Bodily Autonomy, and Care

Climate change and water, sanitation, hygiene, and dignity
Heat exposure, air pollution, and maternal/reproductive health outcomes
Gender-based violence after climate disasters
Food security in climate-vulnerable regions
One Health and the climate-disease nexus
Menstrual health management, waste, taboo, and sustainable period products
Mental health, eco-anxiety, and psycho-social support for the climate-affected
The care economy dimension of climate crises

Just Transitions in Motion: Finance, Rights, Mobility, and Peace

Climate finance architectures and decoloniality
Microfinance, green loans, and climate entrepreneurship
Philanthropy versus public finance in climate funding
Climate-induced migration, displacement, and trafficking
Resource scarcity and environmental peacebuilding
Indigenous peoples’ legal recognition and FPIC in conservation
Legal personhood for nature and the rights of rivers

Living Waters, Living Lands: Ecosystems, Biodiversity, and Regenerative Livelihoods

Nature-based Solutions and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Freshwater ecosystem decline, salinity intrusion, and water livelihoods
Wildlife corridors and human-wildlife conflict
Agri-biodiversity, seed sovereignty, and food forests
Job security in offshore renewable energy: labour, safety, and leadership

Futures Regenerated: Digital Justice, Circularity, and the Feminist Green Economy

Global Plastics Treaty and informal recycling economies
Fast fashion, repair culture, and second-hand clothing markets
Just energy transition: renewable energy, green hydrogen, clean cooking access
Critical minerals extraction, supply chain justice, and labour rights
Ecopreneurship, eco-tourism, and digital marketplaces in conservation zones
Nanotechnology, biotechnology, and green chemistry for affordable pollution solutions
Decolonising climate data and algorithmic justice
AI, big data, and geospatial tools for community-based climate risk monitoring
Digital environmentalism and new climate communicators
Climate disinformation and online violence against environmental defenders

Conference Schedule

Schedule

The two-day conference schedule will be available below as downloadable PDF files.

7 August 2026

Day 1 schedule will include opening sessions, keynote talks, oral presentations, poster sessions, and networking events.

View Day 1 Schedule (TBA)

8 August 2026

Day 2 schedule will include thematic sessions, invited talks, closing events, and selected programme activities.

View Day 2 Schedule (TBA)

Conference Proceedings

All accepted abstracts, oral and poster presentation materials will be compiled into a digital conference proceedings book. Subsequently, proceedings will be published on AUW ICECA’s official website and shared with academic and civil society networks.

ICECA 2026 Abstract Book (Coming soon)