Previous Seminars

The Notre Dame Seminars on Sustainability Series is a signature lecture series organized by the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative that brings global sustainability leaders and world-class scholars to campus for knowledge sharing and engagement with the Notre Dame community.

2025-2026 Seminars on Sustainability

Fern Wickson - "Changing the World, Changing Ourselves: What We Know About Transformative Change for Just and Sustainable Futures"

Eduardo Brondizio - "Avoiding an Amazonian tipping point: Tackling social challenges, rethinking governance, and supporting local solutions"

Elizabeth Borer - "From Local Plots to Global Patterns: Science to Support a Sustainable Future for Grasslands"

William Anderegg - "Illuminating climate risks to forests and nature-based climate solutions"

Ankur Desai - "Taming the land for the benefit of climate"

David Sedlak - "Water for All—solutions for a just transformation"

Kathleen Segerson - "Designing effective environmental and conservation policies"

Jianguo "Jack" Liu - "New interdisciplinary frontier—metacoupling framework for addressing global sustainability challenges"

Katharine Suding - "Hope lives here: global science, local action in our path to a sustainable future"