Sentences with phrase «climate planetary boundary»

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The influence of additional vertical layers in the planetary boundary layer below 1000 meters on the Arctic climate has been investigated.

No one would argue that the current multi-lateral climate negotiations are an attempt to establish «ultimate global authority over humanity» and this is certainly never been suggested by the Planetary Boundaries research.

In essence, the Planetary Boundary analysis simply identifies Earth System processes that — in the same manner as climate — regulate the stability of the Earth System, and if impacted too far by human activities potentially can disrupt the functioning of the Earth System.

The coming SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) framework includes a proposed set of four goals (oceans, climate, biodiversity and freshwater), which is a de-facto example of applying planetary boundary thinking to create a global framework for safeguarding a stable environment on the planet for societies and communities across the world.

Already, Rockström argues, three planetary boundaries have been crossed — those of climate change, biodiversity and the global nitrogen cycle.

Another question that occurred to me: imagine climate change had gone away and we faced no other major «planetary boundary» problem - what else would we face?

«Contributing to combating climate change and respecting planetary boundaries in the way we do business is a priority for us,» said Marie - Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of International Institutional Affairs, Kering, «The Science Based Targets initiative is enabling the business community to set meaningful and measurable goals to ensure that we align with the 2 °C global agenda and Kering is proud that our own GHG reduction ambitions have been validated by the initiative.»

We downscale four planetary boundaries (climate change, land - system change, freshwater use and biogeochemical flows) to per capita equivalents, and compare these to footprint indicators at the national scale.

Of the seven measured planetary boundaries, four are currently transgressed (biosphere integrity, climate change, biogeochemical flows and land - system change) 3.

Biomass - based negative emissions can help to address the planetary boundary (PB) for climate change.

Actually, it is astonishing to me that Victor cites the planetary boundaries research in his defense, when the central conclusion of that work from a self - described «group of 28 internationally renowned scientists» is that we are already past the planetary boundary for climate!

We downscale four planetary boundaries (climate change, land - system change, freshwater use and biogeochemical flows) to per capita equivalents, following the approach proposed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency9.

The ecological footprint and material footprint are not part of the planetary boundaries framework, and partially overlap with the climate change indicator (they both include fossil energy as a component).

The planetary boundaries hypothesis, first introduced by a group of leading earth scientists in a 2009 article in Nature, posits that there are nine global, biophysical limits to human welfare: climate change, ocean acidification, the ozone layer, nitrogen and phosphate levels, land use change (the conversion of wilderness to human landscapes like farmland or cities), biodiversity loss, chemical pollutants, and particulate pollution in the atmosphere.