Moving to a low carbon economy to fight climate change will require the constructions and operations of multiples large renewable energy and critical mineral mining projects, which often include extensive supportive infrastructures across large geographic areas. As such, these projects will have long-lasting and far-reaching impacts on the host ecosystems, the watersheds and the communities. Across the world, these projects are more likely to be developed in rural and remote areas where biophysical systems have had limited anthropogenic impacts. These new projects will bring a suite of impacts to theses socio-ecological systems that can be hard to quantify and, therefore, mitigate. To support a green, just and equitable transition, natural and social scientists across a broad range of disciplines must come together to develop innovative cumulative assessments methods, frameworks, and indicators. This is imperative to support science-based impact assessments and policies across the globe.

In this session, we invite participant to submit their work related to natural project development, impact assessments, and large-scale modelling of cumulative impacts. We especially are interested in bringing together participants from different areas of the world to showcase their research in their particular context.