{"id":1804,"date":"2025-12-10T10:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:09:23","slug":"carleton-university-becomes-first-north-american-institutional-member-of-global-sustainability-transitions-research-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/2025\/carleton-university-becomes-first-north-american-institutional-member-of-global-sustainability-transitions-research-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton University Becomes First North American Institutional Member of Global Sustainability Transitions Research Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton University Becomes First North American Institutional Member of Global Sustainability Transitions Research Network\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Carleton University has become the first North American institutional member of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network<\/a> (STRN), the international network of scholars and practitioners studying and working to advance pathways toward more sustainable societal systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on past achievements in the field, this milestone cements Carleton\u2019s position as North America\u2019s leading cluster for transitions research, policy engagement, and training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sustainability transitions is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field focused on understanding and accelerating the profound societal changes needed to address pressing challenges such as climate change. Its frameworks and insights have increasingly been taken up by leading international organizations and government bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, OECD, World Bank, and the European Commission. Since its founding in 2009, STRN has become the global hub for this work, connecting more than 3,000 researchers and practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cCarleton researchers have made prominent contributions to the field for more than a decade, helping to shape how policy practitioners and experts think about and seek to realize pathways to more sustainable futures,\u201d said Daniel Rosenbloom<\/a>, Ivey Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions at Carleton. \u201cJoining STRN as its first North American institutional member underscores both the university\u2019s leadership and its ongoing commitment to advancing transition research and action.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A Record of Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton has long been a pioneer in sustainability transitions. In 2009, it launched a flagship interdisciplinary graduate program in sustainable energy<\/a>, bridging engineering and policy to train new leaders in energy transitions. Chancellor\u2019s Professor James Meadowcroft<\/a>, former Canada Research Chair in Governance for Sustainable Development, helped establish the politics and governance of transitions as a core area of study within the network and later developed the governance approach that informed the creation of Canada\u2019s Transition Accelerator<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton has also anchored major national initiatives, including Efficiency Canada<\/a> (2018), the country\u2019s leading voice for an energy-efficient economy. In 2019, Carleton brought the STRN\u2019s annual flagship event, the International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference, to North America for the first and only time to date. More recently, in partnership with the Ivey Foundation<\/a>, the university established the first endowed research chair dedicated to the field in North America (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Carleton brings together a critical mass of scholars advancing research and practice across multiple dimensions of sustainability transitions, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n