23rd August 2012 Prof. Johan Rockström Stockholm Resilience Centre Stockholm Environment Institute Planetary boundaries and global sustainability.

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23rd August 2012 Prof. Johan Rockström Stockholm Resilience Centre Stockholm Environment Institute Planetary boundaries and global sustainability

Future Earth research for global sustainability photos:

Ban Ki-moon High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability

Rio+20 and Planetary Boundaries UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon High Level Panel on Global Sustainability

Walker, B. et al., Science, 325: Looming global scale failures and missing institutions

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Humanity’s 10,000 years of grace

(Hansen and Sato, 2011)

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity in the Anthropocene (Nature, 461 : 472 – 475, Sept )

From: ”Limits to growth” ”Carrying capacity” ”Guardrails” ”Tipping Elements” To: ”Planetary Boundaries”

Climate Change < 350 ppm CO 2 < 1W m 2 (350 – 500 ppm CO 2 ; W m 2 ) Ocean acidification Aragonite saturation ratio > 80 % above pre- industrial levels (> 80% - > 70 %) Ozone depletion < 5 % of Pre-Industrial 290 DU (5 - 10%) Global Freshwater Use <4000 km 3 /yr (4000 – 6000 km 3 /yr) Rate of Biodiversity Loss < 10 E/MSY (< 10 - < 1000 E/MSY) Biogeochemical loading: Global N & P Cycles Limit industrial fixation of N 2 to 35 Tg N yr -1 (25 % of natural fixation) (25%-35%) P < 10× natural weathering inflow to Oceans (10× – 100×) Atmospheric Aerosol Loading To be determined Land System Change ≤15 % of land under crops (15-20%) Chemical Pollution Plastics, Endocrine Desruptors, Nuclear Waste Emitted globally To be determined Planetary Boundaries

… Rockström et al Nature, 461 (24): Global fresh- water use Transgressing safe boundaries

Adapted from Canadell et al., Resilience of the Earth system Gt Carbon/yr land ocean atmosphere Interactions among Planetary Boundaries

Global emission pathways in compliance with a 2 ºC guardrail (WBGU 2009)

Submitted to PNAS August 2012

Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters (August 2012)

In Review, Ecology and Society, July 2012

1.Stay within 350 ppm, an agricultural system that goes from being a source to a global sink 2. Essentially a green revolution on current cropland (expansion from 12 % to 15 %) 3. Keep global consumptive use of blue water < 4000 km 3 /yr, we are at 2,600 km 3 /yr today and rushing fast towards 4000 km 3 /yr 4. Reduce to 25 % of current N extraction from atmosphere 5. Not increase P inflow to oceans 6.Reduce loss of biodiversity to < 10 E/MSY from current E/MSY A new ”global spec” for world food production

 Planetary Boundaries 2.0  Interactions and feedbacks (integated Earth system modelling)  Feeding the world within planetary boundaries  Earth system governance and planetary boundaries  Down-scaling (Baltic Sea)  Planetary boundaries and SDGs  Integating biophysical and social planetary boundaries Directions of Future Research