A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations

Detalles

Business and biodiversity basics Identifying and measuring impacts and dependencies Integrating biodiversity into a business context

This new report, co-authored with more than 60 Earth Commission natural and social scientists:

- Quantifies the safe and fair boundaries of the Earth system.
- Assesses minimum access to natural resources necessary for well-being.
- Discusses ways to translate the safe and fair boundaries of the Earth system into goals for businesses and cities.

The authors also propose a set of four system transformations for a sustainable and just future, with examples of concrete actions:

CONSUMPTION: Restricting luxury consumption and waste among high-income consumers and allowing access to services that meet basic needs for all.
ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: internalize externalities in resource prices, adopt new indicators for economic performance, demand decent working conditions, "monitor and control investment, subsidies and trade".
TECHNOLOGY: scaling up sustainable technology (e.g. through subsidies) and adopting the precautionary principle to minimise harm.
GOVERNANCE: reform the UN (establish a regulatory body for Earth governance, reform the Security Council, establish a solidarity pact), remove money from politics, boost minority representation, decentralize decision-making, promote debt relief and tax justice,...

Additionally, the work highlights that inequality is a necessary condition for humanity to be back in tune with the planet and should be a political priority.