The Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities MOOC, hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the SDSN, is now into its second week (see here for PBI’s article on the MOOC). What has been particularly interesting is the flourishing online community…
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The implications of the ‘historic’ US-China deal
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Hot on the heels of the European Union’s pledge to cut total emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, the announcement on the 12th November of the climate agreement between China and the US – the world’s two largest emitters…
Sign up now! Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities Course: Free, Massive, Open and Online
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The Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) are offering a pioneering online 8-week course on Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities: The Quest for Safe and Just Development on a Resilient Planet. The course looks set to cover…
Scientific Developments in the Biodiversity Planetary Boundary
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A recently published article authored by Professor Georgina Mace and fifteen others provides an interesting and important contribution to the ongoing debate surrounding the scientific definition of the biodiversity planetary boundary. The authors list a number of important limitations to the original…
Eight Key Issues for a Post-2015 Global Development and Sustainability Agenda
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The Association of German Development NGOs (VENRO) and the German Development Forum on Environment and Development have published a summary Position Paper 1/2014 in the much-debated lead up to the replacement of the Millennium Development Goals by the Sustainable Development Goals…
New report: Proposals for Governance in the Field of Geoengineering
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The Ecologic Institute has recently released the findings of its research into effective international governance of geoengineering, as commissioned by the German Federal Environment Agency. Geoengineering, also referred to as climate engineering and geotechnical engineering, encompasses the broad area of all works…
Planetary Boundaries need Global Governance
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PBI recently held a meeting in London to consult legal experts and other stakeholders about what we should be doing in the field of global governance, especially of course on global governance of planetary boundaries issues. Different views were…
The Earth System – How far does it go?
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There is a close overlap between what PBI is interested in and the scope of the Earth System Governance (ESG) project, which has this week held its global annual conference, at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. ESG…
Zero Draft of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Here is a link to the Zero Draft of the UN’s much-debated Sustainable Development Goals, which are ambitiously aimed at ending poverty in all its forms, everywhere. The proposed SDGs cover a wide range of topics, including sustainable consumption and production, climate change…
Policy briefings from the UN University and Earth System Governance Project, 2014
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The United Nations University, Project on Sustainable Transformation Beyond 2015 and the Earth System Governance Project, 2014, have recently released two interesting and timely policy briefings. The first is entitled ‘Earth System Challenges and a Multi-Layered Approach for the Sustainable…