The 2nd Conference on Earth-Space Sustainability,
co-organized by the International Institute of Air and Space Law, the European
Research Council (ERC) PlanetStewards Project (Grant Agreement No. 101117483),
the Secure World Foundation, and the COST Action FOGOS (CA 23118), was held at
Leiden University’s Academy Building. (See for details and a link to the full
programme: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/law/institute-of-public-law/
institute-of-air-space-law/events/2nd-conference-on-earth-space-sustainability-law-stew
ardship-equity) As part of the broader Earth-Space Sustainability (ESS)
Network, the event brought together an internationally diverse cohort of
humanities and social science researchers, legal scholars, policymakers,
astronomers, philosophers, and industry practitioners to address some of the
most pressing governance challenges of our time. The conference focused on the
intertwined futures of Earth and outer space and what emerged was a collective
call to move beyond the siloes that have long separated diverse disciplines in
their approaches to sustainability governance: to treat Earth-Space as a
single, integrated system demanding integrated responses to fragmented issues.
(Yap, X.-S., & Truffer, B. (2022). Contouring ‘earth-space sustainability’.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 44, 185-193.,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.06.004), (Yap, X.-S., & Kim, R. E.
(2023). Towards earth-space governance in a multi-planetary era. Earth System
Governance, 16, [100173], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100173)