Planetary Health Check 2025: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet
Summary
The Planetary Health Check (PHC) Report provides an assessment of the state of our planet. It is based on the Planetary Boundaries (PBs) – the nine processes that are known to regulate the stability, resilience (ability to absorb disruptions) and life-support functions of our planet. Each of these processes, such as Climate Change or Ocean Acidification, is currently quantified by one or two Control variables. The 2025 PHC report concludes that seven out of nine Planetary Boundaries have been breached, with all of those seven showing trends of increasing pressure – suggesting further deterioration and destabilization of planetary health in the near future.
Affiliated research theme or topic:
Ocean,
Transformative futures
Link to centre authors:
Eriksson, Axel,
Fetzer, Ingo,
Häyhä, Tiina,
Norström, Albert,
Rockström, Johan,
Stenzel, Fabian
Publication info: Boris Sakschewski, Levke Caesar, Lauren Andersen, Max Bechthold, Lotta Bergfeld, Arthur Beusen, Maik Billing, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Svetlana Botsyun, Donovan P. Dennis, Jonathan Donges, Xinyu Dou, Axel Eriksson, Ingo Fetzer, Dieter Gerten, Tiina Häyhä, Sophie Hebden, Tim Heckmann, Adrian Heilemann, Willem Huiskamp, Annika Jahnke, Jonas Kaiser, Niklas H. Kitzmann, Jonathan Krönke, Dana Kühnel, Nicole C. Laureanti, Chaohui Li, Zhu Liu, Sina Loriani, Josef Ludescher, Sabine Mathesius, Albert Norström, Friederike Otto, Anja Paolucci, Dimitry Pokhotelov, Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi, Emmanuel Raju, Masoud Rostami, Sibyll Schaphoff, Christian Schmidt, Norman J. Steinert, Fabian Stenzel, Vili Virkki, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, Nico Wunderling, Johan Rockström. 2025. Planetary Health Check 2025: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet. Planetary Boundaries Science (PBScience). https://doi.org/10.48485/PIK.2025.017
