GCSE Essays
Essays offer an open forum to essays about science and the environment, and that they are the opinions of the writers but do not necessarily represent the views of GCSE.
GCSE Essays are authored by researchers, thinkers, and experts in GCSE's global network. GCSE Essays provide a deeper look into trending topics and new ideas across the environmental and scientific communities, with a particular focus on use of science to inform decision-making about complex environmental challenges.
Past essays have covered topics ranging from nature-based solutions, to health, to informative overviews of complex multilateral agreements. Essays are published on GCSE’s website and promoted in our monthly newsletter, The Connection, composed of approximately 20,000 scientists, educators, policymakers, business leaders, and officials at all levels of government across the globe. See submission form and guidelines here.
Laalitya Acharya - January, 2024
In this essay, Laalitya Acharya, Founder of the Nereid Project and GCSE Delegate, reflects on her experience as a youth scientist and activist at COP28.
July, 2023
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.” - Dr. Seuss
June, 2023
How can we ensure a better future for all? Exploring this question at the core of environmental and sustainability work — addressed to graduate students at an environmental research conference.
May 2023
Reframing sustainability education to include the weaving of Indigenous knowledge systems and decolonizing higher education as critically missing piece of sustainabili...
April, 2023
Science should help inform solutions to the many urgent societal challenges we face, from climate change to sustainable development, to combating disease...
February, 2023
As a sustainability program director, Dr. Lee Ball feels a palpable tension between the urgency for aggressive climate action and the hope for a more sustainable future...
January, 2023
GCSE Senior Fellows Mary Ellen Ternes, Esq. and Jeffrey Seay, Ph.D. unpack UNEA Resolution 5/14 entitled “End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally...
November, 2022
The science is clear. To reduce human suffering from the climate crisis, humanity must implement a coordinated global plan...
October, 2022
Sustainability in Higher Education stands at a crossroads: do we return to the way things were…
September, 2022
Climate change impacts are visibly worsening around the globe and implementing mitigation and adaptation strategies...
July, 2022
As high-income countries around the world increase environmental protections, ecosystem services are deteriorating where most needed...
June, 2022
There is no denying that climate change is one of the most potent drivers of human migration...
May, 2022
Almost all environmental and economic indicators projecting our world’s future show that we are headed towards a perfect storm by mid-century...
April, 2022
Ecosystem services are the gifts from nature that keep on giving. Coupled with the mobilization of global actions at scale, the combination can disrupt...
March, 2022
Demonstrating that global consensus is achievable most especially when science is engaged in the process, 175 nations agreed to determine a legally-enforcing...