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Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström is internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability, including development of the Planetary Boundaries concept.He is Executive Director and Professor of Global Sustainability of Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.
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Fourth Industrial Revolution
Can this revolution save our warming planet?
2015 was the hottest year on record beating the previous record holder – 2014. Already, meteorologists predict 2016 may beat 2015.
Environment
What kind of Earth will future generations inherit?
Our generation has a unique opportunity. If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse-gas emissions, no poverty, and no b...
Sustainable Development
Will some countries be 100% renewable by 2030?
This is part of a series on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Size now matters: in a single human lifetime we have becom...
Environment
Fight against global warming needs stronger political leadership
The mood in Paris this week as two thousand climate scientists gathered ahead of the United Nations climate summit later this year has been cautiously optimistic. While the window of oppo...
Climate Change
Why we need to listen to the Pope’s climate message
Pope Francis’s just-released encyclical on the environment sends a powerful message not just to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, but to the rest of the global population as well. Firmly...
Economic Growth and Social Inclusion
How can we protect the Earth’s critical systems?
The future of humanity will depend on mastering a balancing act. The challenge will be to provide for the needs of more than ten billion people while safeguarding our planetary life-suppo...
Environment
Can 2015 be the Earth Year?
On April 22, the world will mark the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, established in 1970 to draw attention to environmental challenges. Never have those challenges been greater or more urg...
Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Why the world needs a new diet
What we eat determines our health. It also decides the health of our planet. In the newly proposed Dietary Guidelines, the US is finally moving towards acknowledging the fundamental conne...
Environment
New hope to avert climate catastrophe
Understanding global risks in our current, increasingly turbulent world is necessary if we are to forge a path towards resilient economic development. We tend to forget, or ignore, that h...
Climate Change
9 ways to pull our planet back from the brink
Bill and Melinda Gates said a simple pie chart in a newspaper breaking down the major causes of death among children forced them to ramp up their philanthropic effort. Bill Gates remarked...
Climate Change
Planet earth is hitting the panic button
The scientific community is nervous. It’s not that the climate is changing; we know that already. What has everyone jumpy is new, undeniable evidence that climate change is hitting the gl...
Climate Change
Video: Planetary boundaries
Johan Rockström, Executive Director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, explains the concept of nine new planetary boundaries, and how staying within them may safeguard our futu...