Equity in Climate Scholarship: A Manifesto for Action

The editors of the journal Climate and Development critique a Reuters list of 1,000 influential climate change scholars, highlighting significant gender and geographic imbalances and calling for systemic changes in academic publishing and citation practices.

• The editors of Climate and Development express dismay over the lack of representation in the Reuters "Hot List" of 1,000 influential climate change scholars published on 20 April 2021, noting that only 122 women and 111 scholars from institutions in Global South countries were included.
• The editorial identifies that the Reuters list reflects academic biases, colonial models of scientific practice, and unequal research conditions within the Global South.
• The document calls upon publishers, journal editors, and scholars to implement systemic changes in how academic contributions are cited and published to address significant inequities in academia.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Equity in Climate Scholarship: A Manifesto for Action. https://www.sei.org/publications/equity-in-climate-scholarship-a-manifesto-for-action/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Equity in Climate Scholarship: A Manifesto for Action. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/equity-in-climate-scholarship-a-manifesto-for-action/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021equity, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Equity in Climate Scholarship: A Manifesto for Action}}, publisher = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = may, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/equity-in-climate-scholarship-a-manifesto-for-action/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }