“Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with coloured flowers and herbs”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. 2015)ĭownload Spanish version of 2015 Planetary Boundaries illustration (Credit: J. 2015)ĭownload Swedish version of 2015 Planetary Boundaries illustration (Credit: J. 2015)ĭownload 2015 Planetary Boundaries illustration in black and white (Credit: J. Correct credit is required.ĭownload 2015 Planetary Boundaries illustration (credit: J. The illustrations are free to use in publications, scientific or otherwise, describing the planetary boundaries concept. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å., et.al. Planetary boundaries:exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden.įor direct inquiries about the planetary boundaries concept and its research, please contact Sarah Cornell, Planetary boundaries Phone +46 (0) Stockholm Resilience Centre Technical Report, prepared in collaboration with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Operationalizing the concept of a safe operating space at the EU level – first steps and explorations. Since then, there has been further engagement with companies in financial investment, food, textiles, building, technology, and household goods sectors.Ģ017 Stockholm Resilience Centre became the scientific partner in a research project with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the Swedish clothing retailer H&M group, working to integrate the planetary boundaries framework and the circular economy concept. The World Business Council on Sustainable Development, a forum for 200 companies including some of the best-known brands in the world, used the planetary boundaries framework to shape their Action 2020 strategy. Increasingly, companies are asking for guidance on putting the planetary boundaries into business practice. (Pdf, 901.8 kB) assessed Sweden’s responsibility, and a 2016 study for the European Environment Agency assessed the contribution to global boundaries both of activities within Europe’s territory and of effects of its citizens’ consumption. Policy-makers working at national and European levels are also interested, catalysing a research network,, which links scientists involved in translating the global framework to operational decision-making scales.Ī report to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Pdf, 901.8 kB. In January 2022, 14 scientists concluded in the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology that humanity has exceeded a planetary boundary related to environmental pollutants and other “novel entities” including plastics.įormer UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged global society to “Help us defend the science that shows we are destabilising our climate and stretching planetary boundaries to a perilous degree.”Ĭentre researchers kept planetary boundaries in the forefront of policy-advisory processes leading up to the agreement of the global Sustainable Development Goals. Centre researchers including Sarah Cornell, Tiina Häyhä, Ingo Fetzer, Steve Lade, Andrea Downing, Jonathan Donges, and Avit Bhowmik have all been actively involved in advancing these frontier areas, and building collaborative research links among a growing international community of scientists. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planetĬlick here to access figures and data for the updated planetary boundaries frameworkįrom 2017, Johan Rockström’s ERC Advanced Grant Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene is funding an exciting new phase in this work. It stated that society’s activities have pushed climate change, biodiversity loss, shifts in nutrient cycles (nitrogen and phosphorus), and land use beyond the boundaries into unprecedented territory. Most recent update of the framework, published in Science. Nature: a special section and feature article published in Nature Ecology & Society: Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
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