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Paul Pearce-Kelly, Andrew H. Altier, John F. Bruno, Christopher E. Cornwall, Melanie McField, Aarón Israel Muñiz-Castillo, Juan Rocha, Renee O. Setter, Charles Sheppard, Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta, Chris Yesson. 2024. Assessment of warm-water coral reef tipping point thresholds. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2023-35
Warm-water coral reefs are facing unprecedented Anthropogenic driven threats to their continued existence as biodiverse, functional ecosystems upon which hundreds of millions of people rely. Determining the tipping point thresholds of coral reef ecosystems requires robust assessment of multiple stressors and their interactive effects. We draw upon a literature search and the recent Global Tipping Points Revision initiative to ...
Jürgen Orasche, Kari C. Nadeau, Antonia Schuster, Johan Rockström, Cezmi A. Akdis, Claudia Traidl‐Hoffmann. 2024. Climate crisis paralysis: Accelerating global action for health resilience in a changing world. Allergy. https://doi.org/10.1111/all.16096
The global action on climate change is out of sync. The world is rapidly moving deeper into a dangerous climate crisis; science is providing ample warnings of an imminent planetary emergency; while policy and the global economy moves, at best, in incremental steps. The recently finalised COP28 in Dubai is no exception. Even though the agreement, signed by all countries in the world, provides a workable plan for the transition ...
Johan Rockström. Miina Porkka, Vili Virkki, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Dieter Gerten, Tom Gleeson, Chinchu Mohan, Ingo Fetzer, Fernando Jaramillo, Arie Staal, Sofie te Wierik, Arne Tobian, Ruud van der Ent, Petra Döll, Martina Flörke, Simon N. Gosling, Naota Hanasaki, Yusuke Satoh, Hannes Müller Schmied, Niko Wanders, James S. Famiglietti, Matti Kummu 2024. Streamflow and soil moisture shift far beyond pre-industrial conditions globally – planetary boundary for freshwater change transgressed. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00208-7
Human actions compromise the many life-supporting functions provided by the freshwater cycle. Yet, scientific understanding of anthropogenic freshwater change and its long-term evolution is limited. Here, using a multi-model ensemble of global hydrological models, we estimate how, over a 145-year industrial period (1861–2005), streamflow and soil moisture have deviated from pre-industrial baseline conditions (defined by 5th–95...
Honghong Li, Raf E. V. Jansen, Charis Sijuwade, Biljana Macura, Matteo Giusti, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen. 2024. What evidence exists regarding the impact of biodiversity on human health and well-being? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-024-00335-4
Global biodiversity is rapidly declining, yet we still do not fully understand the relationships between biodiversity and human health and well-being. As debated, the loss of biodiversity or reduced contact with natural biodiversity may lead to more public health problems, such as an increase in chronic disease. There is a growing body of research that investigates how multiple forms of biodiversity are associated with an incr...
Emmy Wassénius, Beatrice Crona, Sasha Quahe. 2024. Essential environmental impact variables: A means for transparent corporate sustainability reporting aligned with planetary boundaries. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.01.014
Despite numerous pledges to the contrary, corporate activities are inflicting environmental harm and are pushing the Earth system toward and beyond planetary boundaries. Several sustainability accounting frameworks exist, designed to track corporate environmental impacts through corporate reporting, and there is currently a push toward standardization of these. However, most sustainability accounting frameworks still fail to f...
Laura M. Pereira, Ignacio Gianelli, Therezah Achieng, Diva Amon, Sally Archibald, Suchinta Arif, Azucena Castro, Tapiwa Prosper Chimbadzwa, Kaera Coetzer, Tracy-Lynn Field, Odirilwe Selomane, Nadia Sitas, Nicola Stevens, Sebastian Villasante, Mohammed Armani, Duncan M. Kimuyu, Ibukun J. Adewumi, David M. Lapola, David Obura, Patricia Pinho, Felipe Roa-Clavijo, Juan Rocha, U. Rashid Sumaila. 2024. Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points. Earth System Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-341-2024
Radical and quick transformations towards sustainability will be fundamental to achieving a more sustainable future. However, deliberate interventions to reconfigure systems will result in winners and losers, with the potential for greater or lesser equity and justice outcomes. Positive tipping points (PTPs) have been proposed as interventions in complex systems with the aim to (a) reduce the likelihood of negative Earth syste...
Celinda Palm, Celinda Palm, Sarah E. Cornell, Sarah E. Cornell. 2024. Planetary Priorities Rubik's Cube Icon print-sheet. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12517686
This print-sheet consists of six icon images representing six planetary priorities for sustainable business action, and a short explainer of how to use them. The planetary priorities are the human-driven environmental processes in the planetary boundaries framework that are already beyond the 'safe operating space', where present-day trends are worsening, and where business can already act directly using existing impact asses...
Sarah E. Cornell, Sarah E. Cornell, Celinda Palm, Celinda Palm. 2024. How can a Rubik's Cube help you understand the global environmental sustainability challenge? Stockholm Resilience Centre. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12592469
Tobian, A., Gerten, D., Fetzer, I., Schaphoff, S., Andersen, L.S., Cornell, S., Rockström, J.. 2024. Climate change critically affects the status of the land-system change planetary boundary. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad40c2
The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity. To date, these boundaries have mostly been investigated separately, and it is unclear whether breaching one boundary can lead to the transgression of another. By employing a dynamic global vegetation model, we systematically simulate the strength and direction of the effects of different transgression levels of the climate change boundary (using cl...
Chuixiang Yi, Vasilis Dakos, Paul D L Ritchie, Jana Sillmann, Juan C Rocha, Manjana Milkoreit, Courtney Quinn. 2024. Earth system resilience and tipping behavior. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad5741
Anthropogenic climate change, marked by unprecedented extremes, is an immediate concern. The Earth's limited ability to adapt to abrupt changes within our societal timeframe has raised global alarm. Resilience, the capacity to withstand and recover from disturbances, diminishes as disturbances intensify. For avoiding potential catastrophic changes, it is crucial to identify tipping points, where a change in part of a system be...
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