Press release
by the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research, The Australian National
University, University of Copenhagen and University of Minnesota
New
approaches are needed to help humanity deal with climate change and
other global environmental threats that lie ahead in the 21st century. A
group of 28 internationally renowned scientists propose that global
biophysical boundaries, identified on the basis of the scientific
understanding of the Earth System, can define a ‘safe planetary
operating space’ that will allow humanity to continue to develop and
thrive for generations to come. This new approach to sustainable
development is conveyed in the coming issue of the scientific journal
Nature where the scientists have made a first attempt to identify and
quantify a set of nine planetary boundaries.Read more