Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice

The Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice (CRCJ)

Currently NOT taking Manuscripts ~ Check back in early 2026

CRCJ’s articles, essays, case studies and opinion pieces aim to address the many multidisciplinary facets of climate resilience and climate justice. As the effects of climate change become ever more visible, frequent and destructive, especially among our most vulnerable places and populations, building resilience must have climate justice and equity at the forefront of these strategies.

The CRCJ’s second, special issue seeks to advance a greater understanding of the climate and environmental justice implications of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and related industrial carbon management technologies and policies, in particular, direct air capture (DAC), carbon capture utilization and sequestration (CCUS), hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

We invite papers from a wide range of contributors including researchers, scholars, policymakers, and frontline and fenceline environmental and climate justice advocates, especially indigenous communities. This call for manuscripts is focused on the risks, impacts, community-based strategies, and climate justice implications of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The special issue also seeks to bring to light examples and case studies of communities facing, or proposals for, these technologies, and the lessons emerging from these industrial carbon removal/management initiatives. The submissions can include policy briefs, commentary, case studies, and other forms of interdisciplinary research related to these themes and topics. This solicitation seeks manuscripts that explore how environmental justice communities are responding to proposed CDR proposals; the policies, campaigns, and strategies that address CDR build-out in EJ communities; and inparticular how indigenous communities address CDR and the implications for indigenous sovereignty and well-being.

2026 Timeline for manuscript review and resubmission:

**Currently NOT taking Solicitations for articles **
• Manuscripts are due on or before __2026.
• Revisions and resubmissions must be completed by ___ 2026.
• Second order reviews and decisions will be completed by ___ 2026.
• Approved manuscripts will be submitted to MIT Press for production on___ 2026.
• Publication decisions will be communicated to authors using the submission platform.
• MIT Press will publish this second issue of the CRCJ in 2026.

Manuscript submission guidelines:
• Submissions should be written in a non-technical, non-jargon, digestible and educational style for a broad audience.
• Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the APA Style guidelines.
• All text, endnotes and references should be typed and double-spaced, with one-inch margins.
• An abstract of approximately 150 words should accompany the manuscript.
• Manuscripts must be submitted in 12pt, Times New Roman font.
• Word count totals include all text, endnotes, tables and figures (excluding references).
• The word limit for each article is 6000 words for professional submissions, an 3000 words for graduate student submissions.
• CRCJ utilizes a double-blind review process to evaluate manuscripts for publication. The author(s) identity must not be indicated on the title page or any other place in the document submitted and all obvious references that reveal the author(s) identity, including previous work, should be omitted in the version submitted for review. Please do not upload a second title page listing the author information.
• Figures/tables/illustrations should include labels and be numbered.
• Tables should be created using your word processor’s table function, not tab separated text. • Figures should be embedded in the manuscript file.

Formatting:
• Simple and consistent throughout the document. Keep MS Word paragraph styles consistent.
• Do not use any non-essential formatting such as extra spaces, indents, underlining, all-caps, or small caps.
• Double-space the entire manuscript.
• Set heads in a consistent manner that can be easily discerned.
• Use a single tab for paragraph indents. Do not use space bar for formatting or indenting.
• Use one space after periods and colons.
• Do not use soft hyphens or the automatic hyphenation feature.
• Do not use hard returns except after the end of a paragraph, title, or item in a list.
• Text in languages that do not use the Roman alphabet must be typed and not supplied as images. Please use a freely available, common font.

Image and Art:
• Figures must be high resolution images (300-600 dpi) in the following formats: EPS, PDF, JPEG, GIF, PNG. Color images should be RGB. CMYK images will be converted in an automated manner that may have adverse effects on the colors.