Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses

X Bai, S Hasan, LS Andersen, A Bjørn, Ş Kilkiş… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Operating within safe and just Earth system boundaries requires mobilizing key actors
across scale to set targets and take actions accordingly. Robust, transparent and fair cross …

Planetary Boundaries guide humanity's future on Earth

J Rockström, JF Donges, I Fetzer, MA Martin… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Human pressures have pushed the Earth system deep into the Anthropocene, threatening
its stability, resilience and functioning. The Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework emerged …

Safe and just Earth system boundaries

J Rockström, J Gupta, D Qin, SJ Lade, JF Abrams… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably
linked,–, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they …

The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, JW Gregg, J Rockström… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several
decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic …

The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

J Rockström, L Kotzé, S Milutinović, F Biermann… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The Anthropocene signifies the start of a no-analogue trajectory of the Earth system that is
fundamentally different from the Holocene. This new trajectory is characterized by rising …

Global production patterns: Understanding the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions, agriculture greening and climate variability

UA Bhatti, MA Bhatti, H Tang, MS Syam… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change due to increased greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the atmosphere has
been consistently observed since the mid-20th century. The profound influence of global …

Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water

B Stewart-Koster, SE Bunn, P Green… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue
water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we …

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: what it does and does not do, and how to improve it

AC Hughes, RE Grumbine - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) marks one of the most
ambitious environmental agreements of the 21st century. Yet despite the ambition, and the …

A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations

J Gupta, X Bai, DM Liverman, J Rockström… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The health of the planet and its people are at risk. The deterioration of
the global commons—ie, the natural systems that support life on Earth—is exacerbating …

Equity and modeling in sustainability science: Examples and opportunities throughout the process

A Giang, MR Edwards, SM Fletcher… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Equity is core to sustainability, but current interventions to enhance sustainability often fall
short in adequately addressing this linkage. Models are important tools for informing action …