New Research: A Way to Translate the Sustainable Development Goals Into Local Action

Ten more years or less to stop climate change and devastating environmental degradation. We have all heard these unsettling words and they are now being echoed with increased urgency. With an ever-increasing amount of scientific data showing that serious action needs to be taken at all societal levels, why are we still falling short on […]

As the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has made clear, the state of our planet is a result of dynamic interactions between human and natural systems. In the Anthropocene, a new era in which humans are the driving force of change on Earth, the setting of actionable targets to guide our interactions with nature is an important […]

Climate change has its well-known target of limiting global warming to below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Is it time to create similar goals for biodiversity – the world’s diminishing community of animals, plants, and other organisms – or is nature just too complex? With the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity […]

Some of the world’s leading scientists gathered for the first historic meeting of the Future Earth-hosted Earth Commission outside Washington DC, pushing forward their plans to develop scientific targets to protect Earth’s life-support systems, like land, freshwater, biodiversity and oceans. Over three days at the Potomac Science Centre in Virginia, the commissioners discussed the process […]

Johan Rockström, Joyeeta Gupta, and Dahe Qin will co-chair the Earth Commission, comprising an initial 19 members, announced today by the international research organization Future Earth. The group will begin immediately – and complete by 2021 – a high-level synthesis of scientific knowledge on the biophysical processes that regulate Earth’s stability and targets to ensure this […]

Future Earth has hired a Director of the Secretariat of the newly-formed Earth Commission, a group of leading international experts tasked with synthesizing the latest science to underpin the development of science-based targets. The commission will work over the next few years to create a high-level synthesis of scientific knowledge on the biophysical and social […]

Davos, Switzerland – Standing outside in the pitch-black cold at the World Economic Forum on January 23, 2019, a panel including Future Earth and partners announced to a live audience their intent to launch an Earth Commission. A group of top scientists will assess existing research to provide the science needed to define targets for […]

The Tyler Prize is an annual award for environmental science, environmental health and energy, and is referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize for Environment’. It recognises the need for an integrative response to our environmental crisis. Prof. Johan Rockström will be awarded $250,000 by the Tyler Prize Executive Committee for his “science-based approach to sustainable […]