Goutte Stephane, Université Paris Saclay

This special issue addresses the fragmentation between environmental sciences, energy systems, public health, and finance by promoting integrated forecasting methodologies capable of anticipating cascading systemic risks. Research communities need to develop common predictive frameworks that capture complex feedback mechanisms linking environmental governance, ecosystem services, financial markets and societal resilience under unprecedented uncertainty.

The special issue welcomes innovations in econometric, statistical, machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches using novel data sources such as satellite imagery and alternative data. Key focus areas include electricity system resilience under renewable integration, carbon market forecasting, natural capital accounting, sustainable finance, and the distributional impacts of energy transitions.

Contributions are sought globally with emphasis on emerging and developing economies perspectives. The collection will comprise 10-12 peer-reviewed articles demonstrating methodological diversity and practical relevance for policymakers, regulators, investors and sustainability managers.

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Potential topics

• Forecasting climate physical risk impacts on asset prices, sovereign credit ratings, and insurance markets
• Climate transition risk scenario modeling and stress testing for banks and institutional investors
• Predicting the financial materiality of climate policy shocks (carbon taxes, border adjustment mechanisms)
• Nowcasting and forecasting climate-related litigation and regulatory enforcement risks
• Volatility forecasting under compound climate extremes and cascading natural hazards
• Predictive models linking air/water pollution exposure to healthcare costs, labor productivity, and insurance claims
• Forecasting the economic and financial spillovers of zoonotic disease outbreaks and pandemics
• Ecosystem degradation leading indicators for public health expenditure forecasting
• Early warning systems for environmental health emergencies using multi-source data fusion
• Forecasting the macroeconomic impact of environmental regulatory tightening in emerging economies
• Carbon credit and emissions allowance price forecasting (spot, futures, and options markets)
• Green bond pricing, yield spread determinants, and default risk prediction
• ESG rating dynamics: forecasting rating changes, rating disagreement, and market impact
• Predicting the performance of climate-themed investment portfolios and low-carbon equity indices
• Forecasting the diffusion of green financial innovations (sustainability-linked loans, transition bonds)
• Forecasting the economic value of biodiversity loss and ecosystem service degradation
• Predictive models for natural capital accounting and sovereign wealth fund risk exposure
• Land-use change and deforestation risk forecasting for supply chain finance and commodity markets
• Water scarcity prediction and its implications for agricultural commodity pricing and sovereign risk
• Forecasting the insurance and reinsurance implications of ecosystem tipping points
• Forecasting the differential impact of climate policies on developed vs. emerging economies
• Predicting capital flow reversals triggered by environmental shocks in frontier markets
• Sovereign debt sustainability forecasting under climate and ecological stress
• Forecasting international trade disruptions from environmental regulations and carbon border adjustments
• Cross-border spillover effects of environmental governance changes: a global forecasting perspective
• Machine learning and deep learning architectures for environmental-financial data
• Graph neural networks for forecasting interconnected climate-financial networks
• Mixed-frequency and nowcasting approaches for environmental indicators and market variables
• Uncertainty quantification and probabilistic forecasting under climate deep uncertainty
• Conformal prediction, Bayesian nonparametrics, and ensemble methods for environmental-financial prediction
• Large language models (LLMs) and alternative data for environmental risk nowcasting
• Forecasting electricity demand, renewable generation and flexibility needs in low-carbon power systems
• Electricity price forecasting under renewable intermittency, extreme weather events and geopolitical disruptions
• Early warning systems for power-system vulnerability, cascading failures and blackout risks
• Forecasting resilience indicators for transmission and distribution networks
• Forecasting flexibility resources including storage, demand response and data centers
• AI-driven forecasting for smart grids and decentralized electricity systems
• Forecasting electricity markets under high renewable penetration and climate uncertainty
• Forecasting critical mineral demand for the energy transition
• Energy poverty, energy justice and vulnerability forecasting
• Multi-energy forecasting integrating electricity, hydrogen and storage systems

Timeline

• September 30, 2027: Submission deadline
• April 30, 2028: Final decisions

Associate editors

• Xiang Gao, Shanghai Business School
• Jingjia Zhang, Nankai University

Simone Barakat, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Hanken School of Economics

Seray Ergene, University of Rhode Island

Steffen Farny, Leuphana University Luneburg

Judy Muthuri, University of the West Indies

Contemporary sustainability challenges increasingly foreground organizations as embedded within complex social-ecological systems rather than operating independently from them. While ecological degradation and resource constraints affect organizations worldwide, these challenges are more immediate and structurally embedded in the operating environments of the Global South. These challenges are not just a background context to which organizations must adapt but an outcome of long-standing patterns of extraction, uneven development, and entrenched social inequalities that continue to shape what sustainability can mean in practice.

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Potential topics

• Organizing for Environmental Sustainability across Communities and Regions - How do communities and organizations work together to govern natural resources and shared ecological commons?
• How do sustainability standards, certifications, and supply-chain rules influence organizational practices across regions?
• How do organizations manage environmental interdependencies across local and global contexts?
• What challenges arise when local ecological priorities clash with global market or regulatory pressures, and how do organizations deal with these challenges in practice?
• Organizing with Nature from a Global South perspective - How do organizations in the Global South manage their activities within the carrying ecological capacity of the planet (i.e., planetary boundaries), particularly under conditions of resource constraints and institutional fragility?
• How do organizations in the Global South engage with degrowth, sufficiency, circular, or regenerative practices?
• What tensions do organizations in the Global South face between economic survival and ecological realities, and how do they navigate these circumstances in practice?
• How organizations in the Global South conceptualize and manage their embeddedness within social–ecological systems and attempt to develop a regenerative dynamic with nature?
• Power, Inequality, and the Governance of Nature - What are the sources of environmental injustices currently in the global South? How are they experienced? What are some resistances to these injustices, and how do they unfold? What are some policy mechanisms (if any) to address these injustices?
• How do power asymmetries manifest in sustainability governance and transnational regulations?
• How do corporations influence environmental policy and access to natural resources?
• How do resistance and counter-organizing emerge around contested environmental futures?
• Stakeholders and Environmental Sustainability from a Global South Perspective - How do organizations in the Global South engage with stakeholders in relation to environmental sustainability?
• How are the interests of diverse stakeholders, such as communities, governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders, navigated around environmental risks and resource use?
• How do stakeholder relationships influence organizational decisions and practices related to environmental sustainability?
• How do power asymmetries and dependency relations among stakeholders shape environmental outcomes and organizing processes?

Timeline

• October 20, 2026: Paper Development Workshop
• February 28, 2027: Full manuscript submission deadline

Steve Kennedy, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Brooke Lahneman, Montana State University

Lucrezia Nava, University of Exeter Business School

Amanda Williams, EM Lyon Business School

Scholarship on business sustainability increasingly views organizations as embedded within natural systems, conceptualized through the planetary boundaries framework. The planetary boundary framework defines nine Earth system processes that regulate the planet's stability and resilience and are directly affected by human activity. Alarmingly, seven of these nine boundaries have now been crossed, threatening both natural systems and the economies that depend on them. For business scholarship, this creates an urgent need to understand how organizations can operate and manage within the safe space delineated by planetary boundaries.

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Potential topics

• How Organizations Integrate the Planetary Boundary Framework into Strategy and Action
• How organizations leverage planetary boundaries to inform sustainability materiality assessments and sustainability strategies
• How organizations collectively use planetary boundaries as a basis to inform shared understanding of cross-scale risks across space and time
• How organizations leverage planetary boundaries to inform risk management approaches
• How organizations collectively build adaptive capacity for addressing risks and identifying opportunities associated with the planetary boundary framework
• How organizations utilize planetary boundaries to inform creation of sustainability targets such as SBTi and corporate reporting on environmental impacts
• How organizations disaggregate planetary boundaries to relevant temporal and spatial scales to inform appropriate action for sustainability
• How organizations use the planetary boundary framework to shape sectoral and cross-sector collaborations
• How organizations leverage planetary boundaries as a way to 'unlock' the complexity of the natural environment for business model innovation and/or product design
• How Organizations Can Operate and Manage within Individual Planetary Boundaries
• How organizations detect, interpret, and act when a planetary boundary is being approached or transgressed
• How organizations prepare for risks associated with transgressing the boundaries and innovate to limit planetary boundary transgression
• How organizations use planetary boundaries for constraint-driven innovation for enhanced practices, processes, business models, and/or collaborations
• Which processes and practices enable firms to develop proactive and responsive strategies for long-term engagement with a specific planetary boundary
• How organizations should balance trade-offs between proactive and responsive strategies for a given planetary boundary, given their industry and operating context
• What roles different stakeholders play in shaping organizational responses to planetary boundary transgressions
• How organizations can engage with least-studied boundaries such as ocean acidification, biogeochemical flows, atmospheric aerosol loading, stratospheric ozone depletion, and novel entities
• How to Navigate Interconnections among Planetary Boundaries and with Social Foundations
• How organizations adapt and innovate strategies, practices, and processes to address interconnections among multiple planetary boundaries
• How efforts to stay within planetary boundaries can be aligned with advancing key social foundations and UN Sustainable Development Goals
• How organizations can apply systems-thinking lenses to manage non-linear change, ecosystem risks, and feedback loops across planetary boundaries and/or social systems
• What governance mechanisms, decision tools, or collaborative arrangements enable organizations and industries to navigate and manage trade-offs across boundaries
• What role could concepts such as degrowth, carrying capacity, or post-growth business models play in helping organizations remain within interconnected ecological limits
• How to Develop Alternative Organizational Theories and Practices from Planetary Boundary Biophysical Foundations
• What innovations in practices, products, and business models emerge when organizational thinking begins with planetary boundaries
• How integrating the planetary boundary framework can inform or reshape core organizational theories
• How the planetary boundary framework can inform theory on crisis management and responding to ecosystem shocks such as natural disasters
• How the planetary boundary framework might advance perspectives on desirable or alternative futures
• What alternative forms of organizing can be theorized by taking planetary boundaries as foundational
• How theory on circular and regenerative systems can be informed by considering planetary boundaries

Timeline

• March 1, 2027: Full manuscript submission deadline

Associate editors

• Gail Whiteman, University of Exeter Business School

Florian Becker-Ritterspach, HTW Berlin

Raghda El Ebrashi, German International University (Cairo)

Jasper Hotho, Copenhagen Business School

Environmental degradation has become an urgent global concern, with emerging and developing economies facing a particularly complex set of challenges. While many of these countries are rapidly industrializing and increasingly integrated into global value chains, they often lack the regulatory infrastructures, institutional capacity, and enforcement mechanisms necessary to ensure environmentally responsible economic activity. These so-called environmental institutional voids amplify the negative externalities of business operations, threatening both ecological integrity and long-term development prospects.

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Potential topics

• Defining and conceptualizing environmental institutional voids in emerging markets, and assessing how these voids impact environmental outcomes and corporate behavior. What constitutes an "environmental" institutional void, and how do formal and informal institutions interact to exacerbate or mitigate negative externalities of business operations
• Examining how firms strategically respond to institutional voids to achieve environmental objectives, including circumventing strategies (bypassing institutional deficiencies), coping mechanisms (adapting to challenges in the absence of robust institutions), and compensating actions (offsetting negative environmental impacts when formal governance is lacking)
• Investigating the influence of multinational enterprises in host countries with weak environmental institutions. How do MNEs transfer environmental standards and best practices from developed to emerging markets, and with what effects? In what ways can MNEs act as catalysts for improved local environmental governance or institutional change?
• Investigating the emergence of environmental or "green" innovation in contexts of institutional voids. When formal support or infrastructure is lacking, how do companies and entrepreneurs innovate to solve environmental problems? Topics may include frugal innovation, social innovation partnerships, and novel business models that address institutional gaps
• Analyzing how institutional voids influence the transition towards sustainability (such as shifts to low-carbon energy, circular economy, or sustainable agriculture) in emerging markets. How actors adapt business models to propel sustainability transitions despite voids
• Exploring how state actors in emerging markets influence the persistence or reduction of environmental institutional voids. How different state configurations enable or constrain MNEs in implementing robust environmental strategies and how tensions between national sovereignty and transnational environmental standards shape corporate practices
• Identifying public policy frameworks and collaborative approaches that can help close environmental institutional voids. What roles can governments, international organizations, and civil society play in partnership with business to strengthen environmental governance?

Timeline

• January 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• September 30, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission