Useful links Planetary Boundaries Initiative Submission Documents: Draft UN Declaration on Planetary Boundaries, 2011 Planetary Boundaries Initiative Submission Document to UNCSD 2011 Planetary Boundaries Initiative Submission to International on Global Food Security Draft Declaration for Public Participation in Planetary Boundaries,…

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This excellent book sets out how human history has taken us into a new period: the Anthropocene, in which humans are a key factor shaping the planet. This is not just a new period in human history, but a new…

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The Planetary Integrity Project   In response to the urgent need for transformative global governance the Planetary Boundaries Initiative has joined a coalition of partners to work on the principle of ‘ecological integrity’.  The coalition, called the Planetary Integrity Project (PIP)…

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After a long process, the United Nations has now formally adopted the Sustainable Development Goals.  There are 17 goals, which are intended to guide the world community from 2015 to 2030, following up the earlier Millenium Development Goals. Although there…

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The predictions made by environmentalists are now coming true – but with a twist.  The large numbers of refugees arriving in Europe are coming now not primarily because of climate change or environmental deterioration, but because of the political and…

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On the same day as the new updated Planetary Boundaries analysis was published, two further closely related new studies came out as well: one on the ‘Great Acceleration’, the other on the Anthropocene’. Planetary boundaries, the Great Acceleration, and the…

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